in ThinkPad: P and W Series Mobile Workstations https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/ThinkPad-P-and-W-Series-Mobile-Workstations/Advice-for-best-MS-Hyper-V-performance-on-P71/m-p/4148907 ThinkPad: P and W Series Mobile Workstations topics Sun, 22 Jul 2018 17:43:26 +0000 tp07_en <![CDATA[ ]]> https://forums.lenovo.com/topic/findpost/1306/4148907/4148907 Hi all,

 

Just about to press the button on a high-spec P71 that I will use primarily as a portable lab to learn and support my Microsoft-using customers. Most of the MS labs have several Hyper-V virtual machines configured and can make heavy demands on RAM (I configured 64GB) and on ]]> Sun, 22 Jul 2018 17:43:26 +0000 https://forums.lenovo.com/topic/findpost/1306/4148907/4148907 Richar_Sargeant <![CDATA[ Re: Advice for best MS Hyper-V performance on P71 ]]> https://forums.lenovo.com/topic/findpost/1306/4148907/4149987 PCIe SSDs are fast enough not be a bottleneck in any practical circumstances.

 

Especially, if you're not worrying about loss of 1TB, meaning that sizes of these VMs are small (with NVMe speeds exceeding 1GB/second, writing 1TB of data is less than 10 minutes).

 

I'd leave ]]> Mon, 23 Jul 2018 17:54:27 +0000 https://forums.lenovo.com/topic/findpost/1306/4148907/4149987 p600 <![CDATA[ Re: Advice for best MS Hyper-V performance on P71 ]]> https://forums.lenovo.com/topic/findpost/1306/4148907/4171527 Thanks for the useful input! The machine has arrived now and I've lef it with individual drives.

 

And yes, it's vastly faster than the PC it is replacing!

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Mon, 13 Aug 2018 09:01:38 +0000 https://forums.lenovo.com/topic/findpost/1306/4148907/4171527 Richar_Sargeant