{"id":512,"date":"2011-08-21T12:54:19","date_gmt":"2011-08-21T16:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tmurgent.com\/TmBlog\/?p=512"},"modified":"2013-04-06T11:49:15","modified_gmt":"2013-04-06T15:49:15","slug":"how-to-improve-your-hyper-v-lab-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tmurgent.com\/TmBlog\/?p=512","title":{"rendered":"How to improve your Hyper-V lab performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tmurgent.com\/TmBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/avatarGolfing.png\" align=\"left\"\/><br \/>\nWhile looking into Windows IO\/Mem performance on a rainy day (i.e. &#8220;no golf&#8221;), I noticed something that I do in my Hyper-V lab setup that kills performance.<\/p>\n<p>I build new VMs all of the time.  Usually they are for a simple test I build with MDT and I throw away the VM after a couple of weeks.  I do it so often I don&#8217;t really think about it much.<\/p>\n<p>Well when I looked at the performance of the server, I noticed that when I start up a VM, it remembers the virtual CD I used to build it.  So parts of the virtual iso file end up getting loaded into memory.<\/p>\n<p>So duh! Got to remember to unmount the iso.  Especially on the ones I keep with the snapshots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While looking into Windows IO\/Mem performance on a rainy day (i.e. &#8220;no golf&#8221;), I noticed something that I do in my Hyper-V lab setup that kills performance. I build new VMs all of the time. Usually they are for a simple test I build with MDT and I throw away the VM after a couple&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tmurgent.com\/TmBlog\/?p=512\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How to improve your Hyper-V lab performance<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,49,48],"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all","category-performance","category-sequencing","tag-hyper-v","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tmurgent.com\/TmBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tmurgent.com\/TmBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tmurgent.com\/TmBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tmurgent.com\/TmBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tmurgent.com\/TmBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=512"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.tmurgent.com\/TmBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1453,"href":"https:\/\/www.tmurgent.com\/TmBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512\/revisions\/1453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tmurgent.com\/TmBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tmurgent.com\/TmBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tmurgent.com\/TmBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}