Pausing for Performance

Running 8 virtual machines can quickly cause bottlenecks, especially when installing new machines, software, or features. If you are experiencing slowness, run Resource Monitor on the host machine. You will most likely see 100% disk time because several machines are attempting to write to the same disk (or array). To ease the load, pause the machines that aren't critical. The installation will be faster and you can start the paused machines when finished.