Best Practices for Physical Servers

Before setting up a physical server to host Hyper-V Role, download, read and understand information included in the white paper "Performance Tuning Guidelines for Windows Server 2008"

• Avoid Overloading the Server
• Ensure High Speed Access to Storage
• Avoid Mixing Virtual Machines that can and cannot use Integration Services
• Configure Anti-Virus to Bypass Hyper-V Processes and Directories
• Avoid Storing System Files on Drives used for Hyper-V Storage
• Monitor Performance to Optimize and Manage Server Loading

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