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Understanding Hyper-V Server 2008 vs. the Hyper-V Role: Date - Aug 12, 2010; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Chris Sanders; Section - General; One of the most common misconceptions in the realm of Microsoft Virtualization products is the difference between the Hyper-V role and Hyper-V Server 2008. Here is the run down…
Measuring CPU performance of the parent partition: Date - Aug 10, 2010; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Robert Larson; Section - Performance and Scalability; Use the correct counters to get parent partition processor performance information.
Increase Hyper-V R2 memory performance with SLAT enabled processors: Date - Jul 27, 2010; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Robert Larson; Section - Resource Optimization; Windows Server 2008 R2 support for hardware based Second Level Address Translation (SLAT) can offload virtual memory tasks to hardware, reducing the primary CPU load.
Performance Tuning guidance for Windows Server 2008 R2 and Hyper-V R2: Date - Jul 15, 2010; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Robert Larson; Section - Performance and Scalability; Microsoft has posted a new Performance Tuning whitepaper on Windows Server 2008 R2. You can use this information to tune the performance of your Hyper-V R2 server.

Putting an ESX host in maintenance mode: known problems: Date - Sep 09, 2008; Rating - 3; Author - Vincent Vlieghe; Section - Resource Optimization; This article describes how to avoid that the enter maintenance mode seems to be stuck
Moving Virtual Machines between Hyper-V Hosts: Date - Jan 28, 2009; Rating - 3.3; Author - Robert Larson; Section - Management; Moving VMs between Hyper-V hosts manually requires a certain process of Export and Import
Improving Performance - Antivirus Exclusions on Hyper-V: Date - Jan 14, 2009; Rating - 5; Author - Robert Larson; Section - Performance and Scalability; Antivirus software can significantly degrade performance on a Hyper-V host. Using these exclusions in you antivirus software can help solve the problem
Hyper-V and HP Proliant Support Pack (PSP): Date - Jul 29, 2008; Rating - 4; Author - Robert Larson; Section - Installation & Deployment; When you install Hyper-V on an HP server you need to do it in a certain order to prevent getting stuck.