Hyper-V through videos
Interview with Mike Neil about Hyper-V RTM, including:
- Why Microsoft decided to get into the server virtualization environment.
- Changes between the various release candidates and RTM.
- Challenges encountered along the way.
- Where Hyper-V is heading.
- IT Pro challenges for deploying Hyper-V.
Architectural overview:
- Virtual service provider (VSP) virtual service client (VSC) and VMBus.
- Disk operations within the Hyper-V architecture.
- Comparison of fixed, dynamic, and differencing VHD disks.
Snapshots:
- How virtual machine snapshots work.
- How to properly export a specific VHD/snapshot.
- Limitations with multiple branches of snapshots.
Backing up Hyper-V virtual machines:
- Virtual machine snapshots and Volume Shadow copy Service snapshots (VSS).
- How VSS snapshots function.
- What happens with a backup for VSS and a non-VS aware operating system (e.g. Linux or Windows 2000 Server).
Disks and iSCSI:
- Determine when to use a pass-through disk.
- How iSCSI works and how to use it with Hyper-V.
- Learn some best practices for using iSCSI.
High availability:
- Guest operating system clustering.
- Virtualization platform clustering.
Eat your own dogfood - using Hyper-V at Microsoft IT
- How MSIT does server Virtualization and Hyper-V Part 1.
- How MSIT does server Virtualization and Hyper-V Part 2
