A list of 20 tweaks which can be used to optimize and improve VM performance in a Hyper-V environment: Enable Hyper-V Integration Services Use fixed VHD files Don’t use Hyper-V snapshots as a Hyper-V backup alternative Configure the size of paging files Do not create too many virtual network switche...

The following is the best-known conversion method provided by Microsoft: Converting VMDK to VHD and attaching a converted virtual disk to a new Hyper-V VM with PowerShell. This method can be used when you have the virtual disk files available, but not all the VM files (such as VMX configuration file...