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ABEL JOASIM MARQUEZ GONZALEZ
Aug 24, 2017Copper Contributor
Recommendations for Windows Server and Hyper-V 2016
Hello. I'm totally new in the world of Windows Server, and I want to know the best practices for making virtual machines, and about hardware recommendations for the server host. I want to run a v...
Ravi Kumar Atrey
Aug 31, 2017Copper Contributor
As per recommendations, you can create Windows 2016 with 4 GB RAM and it will be sufficient to just have only single VM for lab/test environment.
You can go for it.
But if you look to do more testing and create more VMs more than 1, then you need to adjust with performance and can create VMs with at least 1.5 GB RAM on each but still can't create more than 2-3 VMs and keep running them at the same time on the system as it will impact on your system's performance.
Rest things are not an issue.
You can create at least 2 vCPU and HDD with 100 GB.