You have configured a Windows Core Server and the page file resides on disk C. You would like to move it to Disk P
Run the below commands one at a time. If copying and pasting the commands, you may need to reenter the ” if any of the commands error.
Also, if you receive Description = Invalid query when running command 2, please reboot your server and run all commands again.
1)
wmic computersystem set AutomaticManagedPagefile=False
2)
wmic pagefileset where name=”C:\\pagefile.sys” delete
3)
wmic pagefileset create name=”P:\pagefile.sys”
4) Amend the InitialSize and MaximumSize figures as required. This command is based on a server including 4GB of memory. If your server includes 4GB of memory, it’s fine to use the below command:
wmic pagefileset where name=”P:\\pagefile.sys” set InitialSize=6144,MaximumSize=6144
5) Reboot the server
6) Run below command to confirm location of your page file
wmic pagefile list /format:list
This is particularly useful if you use [ Dell/EMC BOSS (Boot Optimized Storage) – RAID-1 ] and/or [ Cisco UCS Boot Optimized NVMe RAID-1 ] and you want to preserve the life of those NVMe drives.
Conversely, it may be recommended for Hyper-V standalone hypervisors running on Windows Core/NDE, to use/specify a second non-Boot NVMe RAID volume optimal location for the swap of the Supervisor Windows Kernel and/or the Guest VMs.