Save Space on Primary and Backup Storage. Hyper-V 2008 R2 boasts 87% of native drive system performance. They are separating out the data that is fixed from the information that changes by creating a new location for transitional data. The size of this data is unknown. Jeff LoucksAvailable Technology
The Virtualization team is reporting 87% of native performance when using Dynamically expanding drives. A number of MVPs were emailing today about best practices for High Availability using Hyper-V and Clustered Shared Volumes. A great topics in and of itself but one that I will bring forward more extensive information in the near future. A side topic came up. Oliver Sommer, respected MVP from Germany, introduced me to the increased performance of Dynamic Expanding drives in Hyper-V R2. Now this should not be confused with dynamic versus basic drive formats. This is dynamically Expanding Storage versus Fixed storage in Hyper-V. There … Continue reading The Numbers: Hyper-V R2 and Dynamically Expanding Storage Performance
