I installed SQL 2012 SE on a couple of VM's built on HyperVservers. Both the Hypervserver hosts are different. So when the VM's inherited the properties these are the configurations:
VM1:
Memory: 32GB
OS:Windows Server 2008 R2 EE SP1
Processor: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU L7555 @1.87GHz
VM2:
Memory: 32GB
OS:Windows Server 2008 R2 EE SP1
Processor:Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5649 @2.53GHz
Both the VM's are freshly built this morning SQL Server installation took like 105 Minutes on VM1 and 45 Minutes on VM2. On Both VM's the ISO's were copied locally and installed. My question is why did the installation take so long on a L-series processors versus E-Series. The E-series is like 4 generations behind.
Is it because of the processor speed?
Experts Need your valuable inputs. Thanks .