Hyper-V: Optimizing Virtual Machines

Reference:
https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/140457-hyper-v-optimizing-virtual-machines.html

Overview

  • Use SSDs
  • Static RAM (Dynamic when resources are a concern)
  • vCPU:RAM (2:1) (NOTE: vCPUs cannot exceed number of logical processors)
  • Example: 4 vCPU and 8 GB RAM - or - 8 vCPU and 16 GB RAM

Calculate number of VMs:

  • Reserve resources for host (i.e. 4 cores, 8 GB)
  • Remaining resources can be used for VMs