Mastering Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V

Figure 2.10 A virtual processor from a single-processor VM assigned to a logical processor on the host ...

Figure 2.11 A virtual machine with multiple virtual processors being scheduled to the available logical proc ...

processors still carries some overhead, but it is fairly minimal and has nowhere near the impact of a hypervisor ...

set to 50 percent, then it means that half of one of the logical processors is always available to this virtual machine. Note ...

logical processors trying to wake at the same time and getting into contention with each other. The solut ...

Prior to Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V, there was also a setting to enable running older operating systems, ...

PSE36 Supports > 32-bit address 4 MB pages PGE ...

RDTSCP - Supports RDTSCP instruction TSC ...

memory slots directly linked to each of the sockets. A processor and the memory that is directly attache ...

Figure 2.12 Configuration options for the NUMA configuration of a virtual machine Consider a large Hyper-V ...

Additionally, in most clusters, the hosts all have the same NUMA topology, so in practice this is n ...

Figure 2.13 Changing the NUMA spanning option for a Hyper-V server Note that System Center Virtual Machi ...

Memory Resources When you’re looking at resources used in virtual environments, memory is the other major type ...

a lesser need or removed from the virtual machine. Figure 2.14 shows the dialog box for configuring memory in ...

Figure 2.14 Configuring Dynamic Memory settings for a virtual machine Also in the figure are options to set a ...

cache and other memory consumers that use otherwise available memory behind the scenes. To avoid this memo ...

Figure 2.15 An operating system with only 4MB of free memory but still plenty of available memory Window ...

the memory that they can use for cache purposes, to help improve performance by preloading programs into m ...

memory, and unused or inactive application memory are all typical targets. If none of those are available, the guest OS may choo ...

memory savings. Using Dynamic Memory can enable running many more virtual machines on a server, thanks to ...