Ensure that your processor supports See the Hyper-V Installation Prerequisites virtualization and Data Execution available at . Prevention (DEP) and that these features are enabled. This requires a processor that is compatible with Intel VT or AMD Virtualization (AMD-V). Use Windows Server 2008 Core Edition for the See the topic Install the Hyper-V Role on a root partition. This will minimize server Server Core Installation of Windows Server overhead and improve Hyper-V performance. 2008 available at . Run only the Hyper-V server role on the root From the Performance Tuning for Virtualization partition. Servers section of the Performance Tuning Guidelines for Windows Server 2008 whitepaper available for download at : Dedicated Server Role The root partition should be dedicated to the virtualization server role. Additional server roles can adversely affect the performance of the virtualization server, especially if they consume significant CPU, memory, or I/O bandwidth. Minimizing the server roles in the root partition has additional benefits such as reducing the attack surface and the frequency of updates. System administrators should consider carefully what software is installed in the root partition because some software can adversely affect the overall performance of the virtualization server. When Creating Hyper-V Virtual Machines… Step Reference Using a fixed size virtual hard disk (VHD) From the Performance Tuning for Virtualization provides improved performance compared to Servers section of the Performance Tuning dynamically-resized VHDs for operating system Guidelines for Windows Server 2008 drives. whitepaper available for download at : Fixed-size VHD Space for the VHD is first allocated when the VHD file is created. This type of VHD is less apt
Ensure that your processor supports virtualization and Data Execution Prevention (DEP) and that these features are enabled. This requires a processor that is compatible with Intel VT or AMD Virtualization (AMD-V). See the Hyper-V Installation Prerequisites available at . Use Windows Server 2008 Core Edition for the root partition. This will minimize server overhead and improve Hyper-V performance. See the topic Install the Hyper-V Role on a Server Core Installation of Windows Server 2008 available at . Run only the Hyper-V server role on the root partition. From the Performance Tuning for Virtualization Servers section of the Performance Tuning Guidelines for Windows Server 2008 whitepaper available for download at : Dedicated Server Role The root partition should be dedicated to the virtualization server role. Additional server roles can adversely affect the performance of the virtualization server, especially if they consume significant CPU, memory, or I/O bandwidth. Minimizing the server roles in the root partition has additional benefits such as reducing the attack surface and the frequency of updates. System administrators should consider carefully what software is installed in the root partition because some software can adversely affect the overall performance of the virtualization server. When Creating Hyper-V Virtual Machines… Step Reference Using a fixed size virtual hard disk (VHD) provides improved performance compared to dynamically-resized VHDs for operating system drives. From the Performance Tuning for Virtualization Servers section of the Performance Tuning Guidelines for Windows Server 2008 whitepaper available for download at : Fixed-size VHD Space for the VHD is first allocated when the VHD file is created. This type of VHD is less apt
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