High Performance SQL Server Workloads on Hyper-V Windows Server 2008 R2 Technical White Paper Published: May, 2010 Applies to: Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 , Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 , Microsoft System Center Introduction: This white paper describes the advantages of deploying Microsoft ® SQL Server ® database application workloads to a virtualization environment using Microsoft Windows ® Server ® 2008 R2 Hyper-V ™ . It demonstrates that Hyper-V provides the performance and scalability needed to run complex SQL Server workloads in certain