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Brien M Posey: Understanding Hyper-V’s inner workings is the key to achieving good server performance and resiliency. This article series explains how virtual networking works in a Hyper-V environment and how you can configure the virtual network in a way that helps you to achieve your networking goals.

One of the main reasons why many organizations initially choose to begin virtualizing their data centers is to reduce hardware costs by using more of the existing server hardware’s total capacity. While making better use of underutilized server hardware sounds appealing, I have seen several organizations that have pushed their servers too far and ended up with a variety of performance problems as a result. Obviously, there is a fine line between using more of your server’s capabilities, and over stressing your server hardware. Often times this difference boils down to understanding how the server’s configuration affects performance.