Owner's manual

Most medium and large-sized IT organizaons have deployed several generaons of virtualized servers and
they have become more comfortable with the performance and reliability with each deployment. As IT
organizaons increased VM density, they reached the limits of Hyper-V soware, server memory, CPU,
and I/O.
A new VM engine is now available and this document describes how it can help IT organizaons maximize
use of their servers running Hyper-V® in Windows Server® 2012.
Best Pracces in Hyper-V…………...……………..…………………………………………………...………..…3
Power Needed for More VMs………………………………………………..…………………………………….4
A New VM Engine…………………………………………………...……………………..……………..…………...5
A New VM Chassis ………………………………………..…………………………………………………………....6
Virtualized I/O………………………………....……………………………………….………………...……………..7
Racing Exhaust Systems: Gen 5 Fibre Channel, 10GbE, and Converged Networking………8
New Hyper-V Performance …………………………….………………………..………………………..……….9
Performance with Gen 5 Fibre Channel………………..………………………..………….……………...10
Live VM Migraon…..……………………………….…………………………………….…………..…………….11
Live Storage Migraon………………….…………..…………….………………..…………….………………..12
Lowering the Cost of VM I/O………………………...………………………..…………………………………13
Low-Latency Connecvity……………………………………………………………………………….……...…14
Scalability with Gen 5 Fibre Channel……………………………………………….………………………….15
Accelerang App Performance………………………………..……………………………………………...…16
The Boom Line……….…………………………………………..……………………………………………….….17
Resources……….…………………………………………..…………………………………...………….……………18
Harnessing the Power
In a survey conducted by IT Brand, IT professionals said the
average number of VMs per server would almost double in the
next 24 months.
VMs Per
Server