When is the page file for a Windows guest OS or the swap partition for aLinux guest OS created?

Correct answer is B – when the Virtual machine is powered ON .

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Swap File Location
By default, the swap file is created in the same location as the virtual machine’s configuration file.

A swap file is created by the ESXi host when a virtual machine is powered on. If this file cannot be created, the virtual machine cannot power on. Instead of accepting the default, you can also:

■ Use per-virtual machine configuration options to change the datastore to another shared storage location.

■ Use host-local swap, which allows you to specify a datastore stored locally on the host. This allows you to swap at a per-host level, saving space on the SAN. However, it can lead to a slight degradation in performance for vSphere vMotion because pages swapped to a local swap file on the source host must be transferred across the network to the destination host.