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Procedure
1 In the vSphere Client, right-click an ESX cluster and click Edit Settings.
2
In the Settings window for the cluster, click Swapfile Location and select Store the swapfile in the
datastore specified by the host, then click OK.
3 For each host in the cluster, select a nonreplicated datastore.
a Click the Configuration tab.
b On the Swapfile Location line, click Edit.
c In the Virtual Machine Swapfile Location window, select a nonreplicated datastore and click OK.
Create a Nonreplicated Virtual Disk for Paging File Storage
You can avoid replication of a virtual machine's Windows paging file by creating a virtual disk on a
nonreplicated datastore, configuring Windows to create its paging file on that disk, and configuring a
nonreplicated copy of that disk at the recovery site.
In the default configuration, Windows creates its paging file on the system disk (typically C:). Paging files
created on this disk are always replicated when the virtual machine uses a replicated datastore. You can
configure any virtual machine to use a virtual disk on a nonreplicated datastore for its paging file. SRM detects
that the virtual machine depends on a nonreplicated virtual disk (the paging file disk) and removes that virtual
machine from its protection group until you make a copy of that virtual disk file at the recovery site for the
recovered virtual machine to use.
NOTE To simplify creating a nonreplicated virtual disk for every virtual machine in a protection group, you
can create a virtual disk file template and then clone it.
Procedure
1 At the protected site, select a nonessential virtual machine (one that you can power off during this
procedure) or create a temporary virtual machine for this purpose.
Because of
differences in the NTFS file system among Windows releases, you must perform this procedure
for each version of Windows that the protection group includes.
2 Power off the selected virtual machine and add a new disk to it.
Create the disk file on a nonreplicated datastore at the protected site in a location where you typically
store virtual machine templates. This disk becomes the template for all nonreplicated paging file disks.
Create it with adequate capacity for a typical Windows paging file.
3 Power on the selected virtual machine and then create and format a partition on the new disk.
4 Configure the virtual machine to create its paging file on the new disk.
5 Power off the virtual machine and disconnect the new disk from it.
You can clone this disk to provide nonreplicated paging file storage for the other virtual machines.
6 To make the template available for cloning at the recovery site, copy it to a folder in a nonreplicated
datastore at the recovery site.
You must copy the .vmdk file and its flat counterpart (for example, pagedisk.vmdk and pagedisk-
flat.vmdk).
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