Re: Pagefile on SAN

Moving the pagefile to the SAN is not the solution to your problem, it will only cause complications and additional problems, the disk space that you gain will be at best a short lived stop gap measure and the server will (may) take a serious performance hit. I think that you already know what needs to be done to alleviate the disk space problem. If you have moved all that can be moved from the boot volume and if you are still having disk space problems you have to bite the bullet and do what needs to be done.

In the meantime, if you want to delay a bit longer, the easiest and simplest thing to do would be to stick a disk controller card in the server and attach a new drive to the card controller and move the pagefile to the new drive. That would not cost too much and it can be done with very little downtime, providing of course that the server has a spare slot for the card and that you have a drive bay for the drive.

John

JamesRussel wrote:

thank you very much John, this is a very good information. we had this in mind because the local drives are running out of disk space and it was just an idea what would happened if pagefile is on SAN, server is not booting from SAN.

thanks,
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