Recommendations for Windows Server and Hyper-V 2016

Hi Abel.

Your biggest limitation is lack of RAM with only 8GB, especially if you want to use nested Hyper-V.

The other thing that will hold you back is only having one hard drive. This will limit your disk I/O and have a bad impact on performance when you have multiple VMs trying to read and write on the same disk spindle with each other and that also contains the host OS.

With low memory and a single disk, plan on doing a LOT of waiting.

I would strongly recomend 32GB for any productive testing environment. Maybe more for a nested Hyper-V lab environment.

At bare minimum, I recomend one disk for host OS, ISO storage and some VMs.

Then a second physical disk for additional VMs to share the I/O load.

As you are learning, don't forget that there is a lot of REALLY BAD info out there. Personally I use all the methods of learning that I can find. It's not a pick one or the other kind of thing. I use on line, webinar, CBT, books, and especially classroom.

Best of luck in your search for knowledge.

Ed