NTFS vs ReFS for Hyper-V: Which File System Delivers Better Performance?
When administrators build or scale a Hyper-V environment, conversations tend to orbit familiar topics — CPU allocation, memory ballooning, networking throughput. The file system underlying those virtual machines rarely gets the same attention. That’s a mistake, because the choice between NTFS and ReFS has measurable consequences for VM provisioning speed, checkpoint reliability, storage efficiency, and…