Avoid storing Smart Paging files on a system disk

• Applies to:

  ✅ Windows Server 2025, ✅ Windows Server 2022, ✅ Windows Server 2019, ✅ Windows Server 2016, ✅ Windows 11, ✅ Windows 10, ✅ Azure Local, versions 23H2 and 22H2

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Property	Details
Operating System	Windows Server 2016
Product/Feature	Hyper-V
Severity	Warning
Category	Operations

In the following sections, italics indicates text that appears in the Best Practices Analyzer tool for this issue.

Issue

The memory configuration for one or more virtual machines might require the use of Smart Paging if the virtual machine is rebooted, and the specified location for the Smart Paging file is the system disk of the server running Hyper-V.

Impact

Use of the system disk for Smart Paging might cause the server running Hyper-V to experience problems. This affects the following virtual machines:

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Resolution

Reconfigure the virtual machines to store the Smart Paging files on a non-system disk.