Cisco UCS C200 M2 – Microsoft Hyper-V

For my Lab I could buy some Cisco UCS C200 M2 rack servers. Of course I am running Hyper-V on my lab servers to get the most out of it, and I am very happy with the performance of the Cisco UCS standalone servers.

But still I did some changes in the BIOS settings to get some more performance.

Processor Configuration:

• Intel Turbo Boost Technology: enabled
• Enhanced Intel Speedstep Technology: enabled
• Intel Hyper-Threading Technology: enabled
• Number of Enabled Cores: All
• Execute Disable: Enabled
• Intel Virtualization Technology: enabled
• Intel VT for Directed IO: enabled
• Intel VT-d Interrupt Remapping: enabled
• Intel VT-D Coherency Support: enabled
• Intel VT-d Address Translation Services: enabled
• Intel VT-d PassThrough DMA: enabled
• Direct Cache Access: enabled
• Processor C3 Report: disabled
• Processor C6 Report: disabled
• CPU Performance: High Throughput
• Hardware Prefetcher: enabled

Memory Configuration:

• NUMA Optimized: enabled