Introduction

Every virtual machine has its own hardware profile, based on the system and applications that you run. Having said that, we need to identify the best hardware options to improve performance, reliability, high availability, and other resources available for every scenario that may arise. Normally, the principal hardware components are the disks and the network being used on these virtual machines.

In some examples, you need more disk performance for a database, or maybe a high network connection using a dedicated fibre channel connection for storage access. You also may require protection against hardware failure or advanced security protection to your virtual machine network. That's why we created a whole section in this book to go deep into the various configuration and options for virtual machine disks and networks that Hyper-V offers so that you can select the best setting based on the workload you need.