Hyper-V Performance Assessment Educate, Demonstrate and Support Hyper-V Performance Assessment The Microsoft Hyper-V Performance Assessment proactive The Microsoft Hyper-V service provides important insight into the performance of Performance Assessment your Hyper-V hosts and helps you to understand the proactive service provides resources utilization of the VMs running inside. Working with important insight into the your Hyper-V administrators, highly experienced Microsoft performance of your engineers collect and analyze performance information to Hyper-V hosts and the help you maximize your hardware utilization and gain Virtual Machines running knowledge on the most relevant Hyper-V counters. on them. Target Audience Key Benefits: • Customers running Hyper-V 2008 R2 and 2012/R2 interested in the • Reduce support cost performance of their hosts and virtual machines. • Expose performance of your • Customers looking for how to set up a baseline of their Hyper-V Hyper-V environments environments. before affects your business. • Customers looking for performance problems on their Hyper-V environments. • Improve your environment’s • Customer interested on gaining Hyper-V performance knowledge. uptime. • Proactive diagnosis of the Tier 1 Tier 2 (Custom) performance will assist in getting a correct base lining, Up to 4 nodes or max # nodes and help to size and optimize Up to 40 VMs per Node Custom or max #VMs your Hyper-V infrastructure (clustered or not) correctly. Collected 48 hours per node 48 hours per node • Realize more value from Information your investments in Microsoft Days Onsite 2 Based on the scope technology. Days Offsite 2 Based on the scope Put Microsoft Services experts to work and get more from your IT investment. Educate, Demonstrate Detailed Report containing findings and and Support remediation steps Engagement without business interference The tools and processes in Key focus areas the Hyper-V Performance Assessment are designed to The following components minimize the impact on your are analyzed during the ongoing business. Hyper-V Performance To support an effective Assessment engagement, the following is required: • Logical Processors and Virtual Processors • Computer running Overall CPU utilization analysis Windows Server 2008 R2 • Physical Networks and SP1 / 2012 / 2012 R2 Virtual Networks (Physical or Virtual) Overall Network utilization analysis English version of the Operating System • Host Memory and VM Memory (including) • English locale in the Dynamic Memory Regional Settings Overall Memory utilization analysis • Physical and Logical • 48 hours capture of Disks performance data using Disk performance analysis from a Performance Monitor Windows perspective before the engineer arrival • CSV volumes and Virtual Storage • PowerShell script and Overall virtual storage utilization XML template to collect data on each Hyper-v host • NUMA components NUMA topology configuration • Local Administrator • Parent partition access on the Hyper-V processes hosts Analysis of the agents and processes running on the parent partition.