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Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Charbel Nemnom, Patrick Lownds, Leandro Carvalho
Book Image

Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Charbel Nemnom, Patrick Lownds, Leandro Carvalho

Overview of this book

Hyper-V 2016 is full of new features and updates. The second of our best-selling Hyper-V books, the Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V Cookbook has it all covered. Brimming with expert solutions and techniques, you?ll have everything you need to master virtualization and Hyper-V Manager. This Hyper-V book is designed to help advanced-level administrators benefit fully from the new Windows Server. With over 80 hands-on recipes, the Hyper-V Cookbook gives you tips, tricks and best practices to deploy, maintain and upgrade your virtual machines.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V Cookbook - Second Edition
Credits
About the Authors
Acknowledgments
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
Index

Tuning your Hyper-V server


To help refine Hyper-V servers, you can think of what can be changed to improve their performance, security, and administration. The problem is that most people do it only when something is wrong.

You can save resources and improve performance by fine-tuning changes and by configuration that can be done before implementation or even in running servers.

This recipe is a little bit different from the others. Rather than tasks, it will provide you with tips and best practices from previous recipes, listing the principal features and configuration options that can help with server tuning.

Getting ready

Most of the listed information was already described in other chapters and recipes. Have a look at the See also section (at the end of this recipe) for links and references.

How to do it…

The following best practices help improve your Hyper-V server performance:

  • Use Nano Server wherever possible: The lower hardware consumption and number of updates and resources involved will...