We are planning to deploy a 2 node 2012 Cluster which will host a Hyper-V session running a print spooler. Is there a best practive or white paper to guide us on the optimal number of queues we should create on the spooler?

Hi MrDisco,

I'm afraid I could not find any official document about the queues.

Here are some references, check if they could offer some help:

Windows Print Cluster Best Practices for Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2008 R2:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/askperf/archive/2010/11/12/windows-print-cluster-best-practices-for-windows-server-2003-to-windows-server-2008-r2.aspx

How to Set up a Print Spooler on Microsoft Cluster Server:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/197046

Best Regards,

Leo

This will depend on the number of clients you have and the volume of printing that is occurring.

Having more than two thousand shares gets hard to manage.  I've had up to 5000 on a clustered VM.

There are several factors to consider and thus not a white paper with hard numbers.

If you are looking for limiting factors, try to keep under 20,000 active print client connections.  You will encounter resource constraints in services other than spooler that are using non-page pool memory.