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Restrictions running Hyper-V under W10 Professional x64?

Please help me understand the restrictions applicable to running under W10 Professional x64. Some users are trying to run Hyper-V under W10 and it does not seem to support either more than one socket or more than 64 logical processors.


Please notice that this SS from the VM running W10 Professional x64 as the host and guest. Cinebench on a 64/128 core/thread AMD 3990X. The VM recognizes all 128 threads (logical processors) but only runs half. Can this be changed with a setting or will it work in W10 Professional x64 for Workstation or Windows Server? Thanks and enjoy, John.13560-3990cbvm.jpg



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I'm not sure why no one else mentioned this, but that processor only really has 64 cores w/ 128 threads. This is the same problem (Intel) Hyper Threading has... You cannot run some instructions at the same time on both the additional logical processor as well as the real core. As a result, only half are used, which is why you see what you see.

I run 4xE7-4850's with Win 10 for Workstations -- Not all processes can make it across all NUMA nodes either. This is where something like Process Lasso may help with Processor group extension being enabled for a process. Keep in mind there is a performance penalty when going across nodes. Likely not as bad in something like a Threadripper than with something like my ancient Proliant G7-580DL.

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Hi,

Windows 10 Professional should support:

  • 2 Sockets

  • 128 cores

The following article might be helpful:
https://www.anandtech.com/show/15483/amd-threadripper-3990x-review/3


Best regards,
Leon


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MisterJ-6435 answered

LeonLaud, please look at the SS I posted above! It is obvious that Hyper-V is not dispatching work to half the logical processors (64) even though W10 sees all 128. When the 3990X is run stand alone all 128 run 100% and the CB score is much higher. We are looking for what the support of Hyper-V is running under W10 x64 Professional. I read the posted link some time ago and it contains an erroneous SS showing 2 Sockets while the 3990X has only one as seen above. Thanks and enjoy, John.

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Almost none of the things I have been pointed to make any sense to me. Example: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/2812283/hyper-v-limits-the-maximum-number-of-processors-in-the-hyper-v-host-os#:~:text=Windows%20Server%202012%20Hyper%E2%80%91V%20supports%20running%20on%20systems,maximum%20of%2064%20root%20Virtual%20Processors%20(root%20VPs).
This SS has 8 sockets and something called 'Host logical processors', so cannot be W10. None of our W10 SSs have such. I really need a document that will explain the support provided by Hyper-V running under W10 x64 Professional version 2004.19041. Thanks and enjoy, John.

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MisterJ-6435 answered BrianSchaer-6855 published

Why does this thread say 'Answered'? It is NOT answered! Please provide a useful answer. Thanks and enjoy, John.
EDIT: Not answered.

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Did you get anywhere in resolving this? Seeing the same thing..

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