{"id":16003,"date":"2014-02-14T14:01:28","date_gmt":"2014-02-14T14:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=16003"},"modified":"2014-02-14T14:01:28","modified_gmt":"2014-02-14T14:01:28","slug":"kb2929766-configuring-paging-file-in-hyper-v-vms-scsi-drive-fails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=16003","title":{"rendered":"KB2929766 \u2013 Configuring Paging File In Hyper-V VM\u2019s SCSI Drive Fails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When enabling Hyper-V Replica for Windows VMs, it is recommended to move the guest OS paging file from the C: drive to another virtual hard disk. This allows you to deselect that paging file virtual hard disk from replication, thus saving needless bandwidth.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft has published a <a href=\"http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/kb\/2929766\" target=\"_blank\">support article<\/a> for when configuring a page file on a SCSI drive fails on Generation 1 Hyper-V virtual machine.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong><u>Symptoms<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Consider the following scenario: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You create a virtual machine that is running on Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V. <\/li>\n<li>You manually configure a page file on a non-system drive, which is a virtual hard disk (VHD) attached to emulated SCSI adapter. <\/li>\n<li>You restart the virtual machine.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> In this scenario, no Pagefile.sys is created under the selected drive. Additionally, on Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V, you receive the following error message     <\/p>\n<p>Windows created a temporary paging file on your computer because of a problem that occurred with your paging file configuration when you started your computer. The total paging file size for all disk drives may be somewhat larger than the size you specified.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Status<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This behavior is by design.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In generation 1 virtual machines, you should create a virtual hard disk on the VM\u2019s IDE controller and move the paging file to that new disk. There are no issues with the paging file being on a SCSI controller in generation 2 virtual machines; they don\u2019t have IDE controllers.<\/p>\n<div id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:4b120241-e1c4-46eb-9088-5cd02f9427aa\" class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\" style=\"float: none; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Windows+Server+2012\" rel=\"tag\">Windows Server 2012<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Windows+Server+2012+R2\" rel=\"tag\">Windows Server 2012 R2<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Hyper-V\" rel=\"tag\">Hyper-V<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Virtualisation\" rel=\"tag\">Virtualisation<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/DR\" rel=\"tag\">DR<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When enabling Hyper-V Replica for Windows VMs, it is recommended to move the guest OS paging file from the C: drive to another virtual hard disk. This allows you to deselect that paging file virtual hard disk from replication, thus saving needless bandwidth. Microsoft has published a support article for when configuring a page file &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=16003\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;KB2929766 \u2013 Configuring Paging File In Hyper-V VM\u2019s SCSI Drive Fails&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[61,181,195,118,120],"class_list":["post-16003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hyper-v","tag-dr","tag-hyper-v","tag-virtualisation","tag-windows-server-2012","tag-windows-server-2012-r2"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}