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June 16, 2014 / Hyper-V

Know Your Limits: Capacity planning for Hyper-V Virtual Machines in Server 2012

This is a follow up to the previous post for Server 2008 R2 (https://thebitsthatbyte.com/know-your-limits-capacity-planning-for-hyper-v-virtual-machines/) and provides limits for Virtual Machines running within Hyper-V on Server 2012. You will notice that the differences are quite stunning, especially surrounding the amount of Virtual Processors, Memory, and Hard Disk Capacity (if using VHDX format). Full details can be …

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June 12, 2011 / Hyper-V

Know Your Limits: Capacity planning for Hyper-V Virtual Machines

Capacity planning for your Hyper-V Virtual Machines is one of the more critical activities you will undertake in your virtualized server environment. How many CPUs, how much RAM, and how much disk space will largely vary by the server role. In this regard you should treat your Virtual Machine with the same requirements of a …

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November 13, 2011 / Hyper-V

Hyper-V VM Performance Tip: Move the Page File (pagefile.sys) to Another Virtual Disk

Your Virtual Machine Guests in Hyper-V should be treated like any other Operating System. They should be updated, defragmented, monitored, and fine tuned for performance. Here is the primary link you will want to reference for installation, configuration, and performance of Hyper-V Virtual Machines: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc753637(WS.10).aspx (Don’t forget to use the Best Practices Analyzer for Hyper-V!) Specifically, …

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April 16, 2011 / Hyper-V

Create a Hyper-V Virtual Farm for Development and/or Testing

Here are some simple steps for creating a Hyper-V Virtual Farm for Development and/or Testing. This is focused on the Networking aspects, and not the installation of the actual Virtual Machines. It assumes you will create the following Virtual Machines (Please note that the RAM allocations are ones I used for my needs [with an …

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March 4, 2011 / Hyper-V

Hyper-V Dynamic Memory Not Working? Upgrade the VMs to SP1 and/or Upgrade Integration Services

I had successfully upgraded my OS to Server 2008 R2 SP1 and was so excited to finally dive into Dynamic Memory when I found that after setting my mins for each server at 512 MB and the appropriate maximums per the server role/type that they would not grow beyond 512 MB (512 MB was recommended …

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