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From: Yaniv Kaul <ykaul@redhat.com>
To: "--[ UxBoD ]--" <uxbod@splatnix.net>
Cc: kvm <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Windows Page File
Date: Sun, 08 May 2011 09:54:17 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DC63E19.7070307@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e31ad39b-d770-4cc3-aed1-94437d6c04bb@office.splatnix.net>

On 05/07/2011 10:34 AM, --[ UxBoD ]-- wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Am about to build a new KVM server which will host a number of W2K8 Remote Desktop servers. We present storage to the KVM server via an iSCSI LUN for which the virtual machines are then built upon.
>
> The question is whether we should use local disks for the virtual machines swap/paging file ? Windows always appears to be using its pagefile so am wondering if that would be better on locally attached storage.
>
> Any help gratefully appreciated.

I don't see the benefit of using local disks - unless your main storage 
is slow and your local disks are fast (RAID, SAS, etc.).
Y.


      parent reply	other threads:[~2011-05-08  6:54 UTC|newest]

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2011-05-07  7:34 ` Windows Page File --[ UxBoD ]--
2011-05-08  2:15   ` --[ UxBoD ]--
2011-05-08  6:54   ` Yaniv Kaul [this message]

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