Best Practices

• Do not overallocate memory or processor resources; maintain a maximum of a 2:1 ratio between the number of allocated virtual CPUs on guests and the number of cores on the host.

• Use an approved hypervisor for virtualization, such as Microsoft’s Hyper-V R2 or a third-party hypervisor that is part of the SVVP.

• Allocate up to 1GB of the memory of the virtual host to running the virtualization host software.

• Highly consider pass-through (Raw Device Mapping) NICs and pass-through disks rather than virtual NICs or virtual hard drives, because the best performance can be achieved with them. This is particularly true for virtual SQL database servers.

• If using Microsoft’s Hyper-V hypervisor, use the latest version included with ...

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