I was thrown this question, “Microsoft Hyper-V does not work with Intel’s Core i7 Processors, is this true?”. Answer if NO, of course it is not true. Microsoft Hyper-V works fast on Intel’s Core i7 processors.
See Intel’s processor over page. http://www.intel.com/products/processor/corei7/index.htm
On the specifications page, you will see that it supports Intel-VT. The same series of processors also takes advantage of Extended Page Table (EPT) feature. EPT provides improved performance for workloads with large memory footprints, example SQL, Exchange etc.
With 8 processing threads in that socket, you can bet that it runs faster those virtualization workloads that you want to use it for.
/Dennis
