How many images can I run at the same time with Hyper-V?

re: How many images can I run at the same time with Hyper-V?

Sean Kearney — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 13:51:35 GMT

Chris

If you REALLY want to push the envelope, drop on Server 2008 Core or Hyper-V Server 2008. Lower footprint = More ram for images... :)

RSAT on Vista with the Hyper-V addon will let you do the rest.

I've gotten about 7 Co-existing happily, the biggest issue is ram (Board maxes at 8gb) and throughput (500gb drive only transfers so fast, so bootup is a tad slow) but when running I've had at least two Exchange 2007 coexisting, Two Server 2008, Vista (64 bit version) Two Server 2003's (and a server 2008 core) all happily co-existing with minimal CPU hit.

This was a on a DUO core. With Quad... :) Well let's just say *Voooooom*

re: How many images can I run at the same time with Hyper-V?

Chris E. Avis — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 20:32:58 GMT

I am going to take one of the machines that I P2V and make it a Core Hyper-V server. I am loading up most of the images with minimal RAM. I feel confident that if I can get the OSes to load that I can get all of the OSes up and running at the same time even on an 8gig machine.

re: How many images can I run at the same time with Hyper-V?

Keith Combs — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 21:39:04 GMT

Where's Microsoft Bob? No respect.