Making Microsoft Hyper-V Virtualization Improvements

Microsoft Hyper-V is a hypervisor-based virtualization system for x86-64 systems. Making server virtualization possible, Hyper-V supports isolation in terms of a partition, a logical unit of isolation in which operating systems execute. Author Hovhannes Avoyan of Montis offers thirty tips for working with Hyper-V, in this article on Sys Con.

"You’ll see performance differences based on the rotational speed of the disk as well as the amount of cache available on the disk. The performance gains of moving from a 7,200 RPM disk to a 10,000 RPM or even 15,000 RPM disk are significant and can increase even more past that level. Likewise, you’ll increase performance if you move from 4 MB or 8 MB of cache to 16 MB or 32 MB.”

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