Best Practices For Running Linux on Hyper-V

Microsoft has a TechNet article where they describe the best practices for Linux VMs running on Hyper-V 2012 or Hyper-V 2012 R2. The article is a list of recommendations for running Linux virtual machine on Hyper-V.

Right now they have 4 recommendations on the list:

• Use static MAC addresses with failover clustering.
• Use Hyper-V-specific network adapters, not the legacy network adapter.
• Use I/O scheduler NOOP for better disk I/O performance.
• Add “numa=off” if the Linux virtual machine has more than 7 virtual processors or more than 30 GB RAM.

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