Optimal Hyper-V Server Virtualization

An article on ZD Net explores getting the most from your server hardware in a Hyper-V environment. Through optimizing Hyper-V, the results can reduce an organization's hardware costs by allowing multiple server images to be hosted on a single physical server, while also delivering acceptable virtual machine performance.

"But as handy as snapshots are, they should be used sparingly for two reasons. First, if you make a snapshot of a database server and then you have to roll the server back to the snapshot, the database will usually become corrupted. Second, snapshots can kill a VM's performance. When you create a snapshot, you are actually creating a secondary virtual hard drive (an .AVHD drive). From that point on, all write operations occur on the new drive, but read operations are spread across both drives, which affects the virtual machine's performance.”

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