By the end of this chapter, you would have implemented a lot of possible performance optimizations for your Hyper-V environment, and you don't need to fear the production usage of your setup. You would have tightened your server hardware, storage, and network as well as the Hyper-V role configuration for optimal-usage scenarios.

Continue now to Chapter 7, Management with System Center, to learn more about managing your Hyper-V hosts, its virtual machines, and the complete fabric, with Microsoft's management suite, System Center. You will also learn more about the deployment, monitoring, backup, and automation of Hyper-V.