Richard J Green

Project Home Lab Hyper-V Server

This is a really quick post but something exciting I wanted to share. Last night, I did a bit of work to help get the home lab up and running and after finishing some bits and pieces, I’ve now got the Hyper-V server up and running with the Windows Server 2012 R2 installation. Here’s a screenshot of Task Manager showing the memory and CPU sockets and cores available on the machine.

As you can see, there are two CPU sockets installed with four cores per socket giving me 8 physical cores and 16 virtual cores. There is 24GB of RAM per CPU socket currently installed giving me 48GB of memory and I am using 6 out of 12 available slots so when the time comes that I need more memory, I can double that current number to 96GB or more should I swap out my current 8GB DIMMs for 16GB DIMMs.

I should have some more posts coming up soon as I’m actually (after far too long) reaching the point of starting to put all of this together and building out some System Center and Azure Pack goodness at home, including, finishing off the series introduction where I actually explain all the hardware pieces I’m using.

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