The new version of Hyper-V comes with lots of improvements and new features that will make your day-to-day job easier when working with virtual environments. However, you have to make sure that you are using appropriate options and configurations for your VMs, the host OS, the system configuration, and other components that you have deployed.

One method that will ensure you use the correct settings and apply the best configuration is to use the best practices for Hyper-V. Best practices are a set of rules and tips created by Microsoft to help you identify problems, misconfiguration issues, and anything else that is generally not recommended.

Following these rules and practice monitoring of your hosts and workloads will enhance performance and optimize virtual machines' resources, so you can avoid most performance issues and quickly fix them if they happen.

This chapter will also cover Hyper-V nested virtualization and graphics improvement in Windows Server 2016, so you can virtualize any workload that requires high graphics.