WINDOWS SERVER 2012 HYPER-V SCALE FINAL
Yesterday during the official launch of Windows 2012 Server , we announced the final scalability details on Windows 2012 and Hyper-V 3.0.
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Windows Server 2012 Standard/Datacenter Editions with Hyper-V Enabled
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Windows Server 2008 R2
Windows Server 2012
Improvement Factor
Logical Processors Per Host
64
320*
5x
Physical Memory per Host
1 Terabyte
4 Terabytes*
4x
Virtual Processors per Host
512
2048*
4x
Virtual Machines per Host
384
1024*
2.7x
Virtual Processors per VM
4
64
16x
Memory per VM
64 Gigabytes
1 Terabyte
16x
Maximum Virtual Disk
~2 TB
64 TB*
32x
Nodes in a Cluster
16
64*
4x
Virtual Machine in a Cluster
1,000
8,000*
8x
*= Industry Leading