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WS08 Hyper-V as RTMed!!!!
Published 28 June 8 8:57 AM | ALL TOPICS PERFORMANCE : Hyper-V
Wow its been a great ride helping get Hyper-V to perform the way it does. So much so I've not posted in a while. You will see some upcoming posts on performance counters, WMI perf interfaces, and real data (yes now with RTM I can post data). In the...
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Negative ping times in Windows VM's - whats up?
Published 5 June 8 1:40 PM | ALL TOPICS PERFORMANCE : Hyper-V
Just a quick blog post that might help you resolve an issue that some customers have seen running under Hyper-V VM's. The issue is negative ping times on multi-processor guests. If you see negative ping times in multiprocessor W2k3 guest OSes you...
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Hyper-V Performance Counters – Part one of many - The overview
Published 3 May 8 10:5 PM | ALL TOPICS PERFORMANCE : Hyper-V
[[ ***IF YOU HAVE SPECIFIC QUESTIONS ON PERFORMANCE COUNTERS YOU WANT ANSWERED PLEASE POST A REPLY WITH THE QUESTION***]] In the next few posts I’ll be covering Hyper-V performance counters. There have been a lot of changes from Beta -> RC -> post...
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Hyper-V: Clocks lie... which performance counters can you trust?
Published 20 March 8 4:0 AM | ALL TOPICS PERFORMANCE : Hyper-V
Many people have asked me how to do performance analysis using Hyper-V. The first thing I always tell them is clocks lie. Lets dig into this a little bit. First some basic concepts. There are two types of partitions that the Hypervisor manages. The root...
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Good overview of virtualization
Published 18 March 8 10:6 AM | ALL TOPICS PERFORMANCE : Hyper-V
Every now and then I come across articles on virtualization. This one caught my attention because of the amount of technical details. Detail is what I strive for in this blog and I have some good detailed posts on the way. http://it.anandtech.com/IT/showdoc...
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Hyper-V: SCSI vs IDE - Do you really need an IDE and SCSI drive for best performance?
Published 2 January 8 4:27 PM | ALL TOPICS PERFORMANCE : Hyper-V
Wow... blogging is fun and can really help people understand a topic. Other times it can be a chore when the whole picture is not presented up front. This is just what I did in a previous post http://blogs.msdn.com/tvoellm/archive/2007/12/12/which-is...
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Hyper-V: Integration Components and Enlightenments
Published 2 January 8 4:9 PM | ALL TOPICS PERFORMANCE : Hyper-V
In order to get the most from your VM’s it is good to understand a couple of concepts that can impact the performance and operation of your Virtual Machines. Here are some the concepts I’ll describe below; · Integration Components · Synthetic vs. Emulated...
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Hyper-V: How to get the most from your virtualized disk performance
Published 11 December 7 11:53 PM | ALL TOPICS PERFORMANCE : Hyper-V
There are two types of disk controllers that Hyper-V supports: SCSI and IDE. There are two IDE controllers and four SCSI controllers available. Each IDE controller can have two devices. You can not boot from a SCSI controller. This means an IDE disk will...
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Windows Hyper-V Beta what's that ??? (Updated 12/13/2007)
Published 6 December 7 11:21 AM | ALL TOPICS PERFORMANCE : Hyper-V
Windows Hyper-V was previously called "Windows Server Virtualization" and shipped in the Windows Beta as a prerelease. Now Hyper-V Beta (different name same cool product) is shipping with the latest Windows RC bits. Get it here http://www.microsoft...
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Which Windows Server Virtualization 08 (code named Viridian) storage is best for you?
Published 12 October 7 8:10 PM | ALL TOPICS PERFORMANCE : Hyper-V
If you have had a chance to play around with our prerelease bits you might be wondering what all the types of storage are. You might also be wondering how to decide which storage is right for your virtual machine (VM). One question I'll address in...
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