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From: Yaniv Kaul <ykaul@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Windows Page File
Date: Sun, 08 May 2011 09:54:17 +0300
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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.