Control IOPS of HVD creating

Question

How can I change and control the speed of creating VHD on Hyper-V?

As I noticed, the creating consumes all IOPS on the volume there is VHD located.

It is not so good for production. Because the creation of VHD take for itself all IOPS on the volume, so the another VMs lose their IOPS.

Is where some methods to control if via powershell or regedit maybe?

If you know something, thanks a lot for support. I lost few days and found nothing.

Answer 1

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Hello there,

You cannot control the entire configuration but can fine tune the settings that is best for your environment.

This section describes the different options and considerations for tuning storage I/O performance in a virtual machine. The storage I/O path extends from the guest storage stack, through the host virtualization layer, to the host storage stack, and then to the physical disk. Following are explanations about how optimizations are possible at each of these stages.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/performance-tuning/role/hyper-v-server/storage-io-performance

Hope this resolves your Query !!

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