Page file & TEMP location - Not on C Drive okay?

[Scott Townsend]

I'm running an Exchange2003 server and it complaining that the Paging file
is on the same drive as some of the Exchange Data files.

The C & D Drives are Mirrored (4 Drives) and the E drive is on its own just
used to store a backup the Exchange Database.

I'd like to keep the Exchange Data on the C & D Drives as they are mirrored.
Are there any issues with putting the paging file and the TEMP/TMP
directories on the standalone E Drive?

Thanks,
Scott<-

 

[Jeff Goldner [MS]]

As a general best practice, Exchange doesn't share well and it's very
sensitive to latency. But you don't say what kind of load or if you are
seeing any issues.

You can easily move TEMP to E, actually a good idea (why waste good mirrored
storage on that). If you move the paging file though, you will prevent
crashdumps from happening.

 

[John John]

You can easily move TEMP to E, actually a good idea (why waste good mirrored
storage on that). If you move the paging file though, you will prevent
crashdumps from happening.

You can have multiple pagefiles. Keep one on the boot volume for dump
file and set another one on another hard disk. Windows will use and
fovour the pagefile on the least active disk.

John