Why is cpu power management not working in Server 2012 with Hyper-V?

Posted by Roland on Server Fault See other posts from Server Fault or by Roland
Published on 2012-11-23T09:23:28Z Indexed on 2012/11/23 11:02 UTC
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We've been using Server2008R2 with Hyper-V for a couple of years now and chose it at the time because of its ability to make use of Intel SpeedStep and AMD PowerNow! Now with Server 2012 and Hyper-V V3, all power management abilities seem to be gone. The CPUs are always at full speed and our servers need twice the energy as before while idling. (Yes, the CPU P-states are enabled in the BIOS) Is this by design? Is there a workaround to enable cpu power management again? Despite the great new features of Hyper-V 3, this would be a show-stopper for us since we are very concerned about energy consumption.

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