What is the maximum amount of RAM a host can provision to a Hyper-V guest?
Solution 1:
The information is to be found in the article How Much Memory Does My Hyper-V Host Require?
The amount that Hyper-V reserves for the host, called host reserve, is calculated in the following table:
An example taken from Microsoft:
- You have a host with 16 GB RAM
- The Mangement OS uses 2 GB
- The host reserve is up to 2.5 GB
- That leaves you with 11.5 GB RAM for VMs.