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Kenneth van Surksum on
on December 1 2009, 8:03 AM
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Tony Soper: Customers often ask “Given a hardware load-out X, how many Ys can I
get/run/host?”
The frustrating answer always starts with “…it depends…”. We caveat this way
not because we want to frustrate, but because it is true. Many teams will go on
to say “We have tested the following in our labs and gotten the displayed
results…”
1 X = thingy
2 X = more thingies
3X = many more thingies
While accurate, not super-helpful.
The truth is that to do good perf planning for Hyper-V you have to run some
tests.
Run them using your actual production load (converted to
Virtual Machines) in a test environment.
TIP: you can download the free VHD
version of SCVMM, then run it as a VM to convert your production machines to
“test” virtual machines.
Then play with your assumptions and tweak things higher and lower and to your
design tolerance and actually observe how perf goes.
Add an overhead/forgot-to-test percentage, done.
So, how to do that for Hyper-V? Here are some perf testing resources to help
you:
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