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Hyper-V 2008 R2 SP1: Dynamic Memory Settings

Hyper-V 2008 R2 SP1: Dynamic Memory Settings

Note: This article is based on Hyper-V 2.0, and might not apply to Hyper-V 3.0 (Server 2012)


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Startup RAM

  • Default: 512 MB
  • Minimum: 8 MB
  • Step: 2 MB

Hyper-V Manager: Startup RAM

Figure 1. Hyper-V Manager: Startup RAM

SCVMM 2008 R2 SP1: Startup memory

Figure 2. SCVMM 2008 R2 SP1: Startup memory

Maximum RAM

  • Default: 65536 MB (64 GB)
  • Maximum: 65536 MB (64 GB)
  • Step: 2 MB

Hyper-V Manager: Maximum RAM

Figure 3. Hyper-V Manager: Maximum RAM

SCVMM 2008 R2 SP1: Maximum memory

Figure 4. SCVMM 2008 R2 SP1: Maximum memory

Memory buffer

  • Default: 20%
  • Minimum: 5%
  • Maximum: 2000%
  • Step: 1%

Hyper-V Manager: Memory buffer

Figure 7. Hyper-V Manager: Memory buffer

SCVMM 2008 R2 SP1: Memory buffer

Figure 8. SCVMM 2008 R2 SP1: Memory buffer

Memory weight

  • Default: 5000
  • Minimum: 0
  • Maximum: 10000
  • Step: 1250 (in Hyper-V Manager)
  • Step: 1 (in SCVMM 2008 R2 SP1 - Custom mode)

Hyper-V Manager: Memory weight

Figure 5. Hyper-V Manager: Memory weight

SCVMM 2008 R2 SP1: Priority

Figure 6. SCVMM 2008 R2 SP1: Priority

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  • 25 Aug 2013 1:05 PM

    Carsten Siemens edited Revision 5. Comment: Added tag: has image

  • 25 May 2013 1:39 PM

    Carsten Siemens edited Revision 4. Comment: Added tags: en-US, has comment, has TOC

  • 3 Nov 2011 5:18 AM

    Horizon_Net edited Revision 2. Comment: Added toc.

  • 6 Apr 2011 12:38 PM

    Dariusz Porowski edited Revision 1. Comment: Alt in Images

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  • Posted by
    on 6 Apr 2011 12:38 PM

    Dariusz Porowski edited Revision 1. Comment: Alt in Images

  • Posted by
    on 3 Nov 2011 5:18 AM

    Horizon_Net edited Revision 2. Comment: Added toc.

  • Posted by
    on 8 Nov 2011 9:27 PM

    Windows Server 2008 Standard Edition or Windows Web Server 2008 virtual machine (VM) we should apply the mentioned hotfix

    support.microsoft.com/.../2230887

  • Posted by
    on 10 Apr 2012 10:14 AM

    Dynamic memory feature is cool not only for allocating dynamic memory but it also allow me to deal with active memory problem. I can allocate minimum memory to VM and allocate required memory in dynamic.

  • Posted by
    on 25 Nov 2012 11:42 PM

    good one !

  • Posted by
    on 25 May 2013 1:39 PM

    Carsten Siemens edited Revision 4. Comment: Added tags: en-US, has comment, has TOC

  • Posted by
    on 25 Aug 2013 1:05 PM

    Carsten Siemens edited Revision 5. Comment: Added tag: has image

  • Posted by
    on 12 Sep 2013 5:58 AM

    Danny van Dam edited Revision 6. Comment: added note about that this might not apply to Hyper-V 3.0

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