Sizing Guide for Microsoft Hyper-V on HP Server and Storage Technologies

Overview

This paper presents basic sizing guidance for deploying applications into a Microsoft Hyper-V virtualized architecture. It focuses on Hyper-V sizing from a generic or horizontal view, and does not focus on any specific application running on top of Hyper-V. Instead, it provides guidance on the key factors on which to focus for any application running on Hyper-V. The major Hyper-V consideration discussed in this white paper is the number of virtual machines (VMs) that can be run on a physical host server. This information should be used as sizing guidance and is not a detailed blueprint for implementing Hyper-V architecture.