Configuring Pagefile for DL580 G5 with 62GB of RAM

[Christina_K2]

What is the recommendation for pagefile size for a server with 62GB of RAM. I'm running Windows 2003 Enterprise. Also on this server I'm running GSX server 1 with 15 guests.

[Igor Karasik]

How Big Should I Make the Paging File?
http://blogs.technet.com/markrussinovich/archive/2008/11/17/3155406.aspx


How to determine the appropriate page file size for 64-bit versions of Windows Server 2003 or Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/889654

And if you don't want to read - just let to Windows manage pagefile size automatically
With 64 GB RAM most likely you will not use pagefile at all.

[Jon Finley]

I concur. Let Windows do automatic allocation. With that much RAM you shouldn't need to be paging. If you are, then you need to look at resource clustering your hosts, and moving some of your VM's around.

Jon

[Gfuss]

Christina,
Off-topic, but have you confirmed that GSX 1.0 supports that much memory? I know GSX 3.0 does, however, the GSX product was "ported" to 'VMware Server' some time ago and is at version 2.0.

-Gfuss