There are many configuration tasks that are involved with standing up a new Hyper-V environment from configuring the hosts along with networking requirements all the way down to provisioning storage. It might seem like after configuring the hosts, networking, and storage along with the other Hyper-V cluster-specific tasks, the work to bring the new cluster online is finished. However, there is an aspect of provisioning that is often neglected that can be a great way to flush out any underlying issues before the cluster is placed into production use — benchmarking.
Generally speaking, you know what types of processors are configured as well as the capabilities of the provisioning storage for the Hyper-V cluster. Benchmarking allows for a tangible way to validate the configuration of the Hyper-V cluster from a performance standpoint. Disk/storage performance is a great area to start with benchmarking a Hyper-V cluster. Storage misconfiguration or other issues is a typical culprit to poor Hyper-V cluster performance.
