Hyper-V: Performance Survival Guide

This article is a work-in-progress list of Hyper-V Performance guidance. Feel free to add links, rearrange the links that are here, or in other ways add relevant information to this topic.

New! Sample code in C# for reading performance counters
New! Some observations on Dynamic VHD Performance
PAL (Performance Analysis of Logs) tool is a powerful tool that reads in a performance monitor counter log and analyzes it using known thresholds.

Hyper-V Performance on R900 with Six-Core Intel Xeon Whitepaper
Hyper-V Performance Scales Well in 24-Core Dell Server
Performance Advantage of Dell PowerEdge R900 with Hyper-V
SAP SD Standard Application Benchmark Results
Hitachi Universal Storage Platform Family Best Practices with Hyper-V Best Practices Guide
NetApp Top Top Five Hyper-V Best Practices
NetApp Storage Best Practices For Microsoft Virtualization
NetApp Implementation Guide For Microsoft Virtualization
BestPractices for a Microsoft Hyper-V Dynamic Data Center in an HP BladeSystem Environment White Paper
Hyper-V performance comparison: Microsoft Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 with Intel Xeon processor X5570- and E5450-based servers
Performance characterization report for Microsoft Hyper-V R2 on HP StorageWorks 4400 Enterprise Virtual Array
Performance characterization report for Microsoft Hyper-V R2 on HP ProLiant BL490c G6 servers
Improving scalability and storage performance with HP StorageWorks EVA8400 and Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2
Performance characterization report for Microsoft Hyper-V R2 on HP ProLiant G6 servers with Intel Xeon X5500 or AMD Opteron 8400 processors
Performance characterization report for Microsoft Hyper-V R2 on HP ProLiant DL785 G6 servers
1,000,000 IOPS with iSCSI - That's Not a Typo…
Real-world server consolidation: 35 HP ProLiant DL385 servers onto 5 Dell PowerEdge M610 blade servers with VMware vSphere
Real-world server consolidation: 35 HP ProLiant DL385 servers onto 5 Dell PowerEdge M610 blade servers running Hyper-V

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