VM's Temp Storage and CDROM drive letter change and the recommendation

Kumar Pradhan, Sanjaya 1 Reputation point
2022-11-10T08:23:13.047+00:00

What is the recommendation to use Temp Storage or not to use?

If we change the drive letter for Temp Storage default D: drive to any other drive letter
and
CDROM default E: drive to any other drive letter. Is there any impact if we change?

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  1. Alan Kinane 16,951 Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2022-11-10T09:49:18.987+00:00

    Its purpose is for performance optimisation, it is SSD storage on the same physical host as the virtual machine so it can be used to optimise performance for non-persistent storage items like the page file. For Windows VMs the page file is placed there by default.

    https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/managed-disks-overview#temporary-disk
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    No issues with changing this drive letter - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/windows/change-drive-letter

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