Page file confusion
I’m planning to create couple of virtual machines based on Windows Server 2019 (host Windows Serer 2012 R2). One of main will be MS SQL with 128GB RAM – it will be replicated to second site using Hyper-V Replica.
For few hours I’m trying to find advise how to correctly configure page file on the VM (host is clear – just leave it as automatic), and found many contradicting answers. Perhaps somebody can advise something. I found following:
- Disable completely page file as you have enough RAM and you don’t need it
- Set page file as 1.5xRAM, even if it is huge
- Set page file as 1.5x(Total machine RAM – RAM allocated for SQL)
- Set page file as automatic
- Place page file on OS drive as it won’t be used to much so it can be replicated without any issues.
- Place page file on dedicated drive to make sure it won’t se much bandwidth during replication.
All arguments which I read about above are reasonable but I have no idea what really should I chose.