I feel that in my bones :lol:I was just emotional because I cannot hear the advice "stick to old windows / don't use windows" anymore. If I could I would. If I could decide, all of our software stack would run on Linux.
your config (and system) is as optimized as it could be. other than different storage choices there are not likely many knobs left to turn. Since the guest type and performance appear to be hard requirements, you may need to consider other hypervisors or bare metal. Depending on what you're actually using the system for, it may be a better option to use just Windows as the root OS (and as an added bonus. licensing becomes less "gray")