Create a snapshot but do not have enough space on the VMFS volume

Power on a virtual machine but there is not enough space to create a swap file on the VMFS volume

To change the default location:

Power off the virtual machine.

Add the following line to the VMX configuration file for the virtual machine:

workingDir=""

For example:

workingDir="/vmfs/volumes/46f1225f-552b0069-e03b-00145e808070/vm-snapshots"

To reload virtual machine configuration, run the command:

# vimsh -ne "vmsvc/reload "

When you power on the virtual machine, snapshot files and VSWP files are created in the new location.

Note: If you do not want to redirect the virtual machine’s swap file, add the following line to the VMX configuration file, then reload the configuration:

sched.swap.dir=""



When you power on the virtual machine, the swap file is created in the same directory as virtual machine.