Chapter 5: Planning the Hardware Deployment

Understand the hardware requirements for Hyper-V Understanding the correct maximum limits of Hyper-V is critical in performing a valid hardware sizing and specification that will be supported by Microsoft and be reliable.

Master It You are working as an engineer in a company that is considering options for deploying Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V. A consultancy company has convinced your manager that they should assist. During your first meeting, the lead technical consultant has started talking about being able to use 2 TB RAM per host on Datacenter edition Hyper-V hosts, with more than 500 running virtual CPUs per host. What is wrong with that statement, and what are the correct maximum limits?

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