Windows Server® 2012 Unleashed

Planning Your Implementation of Hyper-V

For the organization that chooses to leverage the capabilities of Windows Server 2012 virtualization, a few moments should be spent to determine the proper size, capacity, and capabilities of the host server that would be used as the virtual server host system. Many server system applications get installed with little assessment as to resource requirements of the application itself, because most servers in a datacenter are running less than 10% server utilization, so there is plenty of excess server capacity to handle server workload capabilities.

With Hyper-V, however, because each guest session is a discretely running operating system, the installation of as few as three or four high-performance guest ...