Hyper-V: Everything you always wanted to know about clustering* but were afraid to ask

My teenage daughter never tires of reminding me how often I show my age. The punning title of this blog is no exception.

However, that should not take away from the awesomeness of the Clustering Team Blog post that lists 300+ useful documents, guides, information and utilities.

My favorites of course are on Hyper-V:

• Blog: Adding a Pass-Through Disk to a HA VM
• Blog: Deploying a HA Virtual Machine (2008)
• Blog: HA Virtual Machine Deployment Considerations (2008)
• Blog: Hyper-V Export and Import (2008 R2)
• Blog: Monitor Network Traffic for a VM on a Cluster
• Blog: Network Load Balancing (NLB) and Virtual Machines
• Blog: SCVMM: Intelligent Placement
• Blog: SCVMM: Quick Storage Migration
• Blog: VM Scale with Clustering: Physical Memory Reservations
• KB Article: Hyper-V R2 Upgrades
• TechNet: Design for a Failover Cluster in Which All Nodes Run Hyper-V
• TechNet: Failover Cluster in which the Servers run Hyper-V
• TechNet: Getting Started with Hyper-V
• TechNet: High-Availability for a Server Running Hyper-V
• TechNet: Requirements and Recommendations for Failover Clusters in Which All Nodes Run Hyper-V
• TechNet Case Study: Best Practices for Deploying VMs using Hyper-V
• TechNet Case Study: How Microsoft IT Designs the Virtualization Host & Network Infrastructure
• Training: Configuring Hyper-V in Windows Server 2008
• Training: eBook: Understanding Microsoft Virtualization Solutions
• Webcast: 24 Hours of Windows Server 2008 (Part 24 of 24): High Availability with Hyper-V
• Webcast: Building a Hyper-V R2 Cluster
• Webcast: Creating Business Continuity Solutions Using Windows Virtualization
• Webcast: Deploying Clusters for Live Migration
• Webcast: Failover and Live Migration
• Webcast: Failover and Quick Migration of VMs
• Webcast: Getting Started with Live Migration
• Webcast: Getting started with Hyper-V in R2 videos
• Webcast: High Availability Basics with Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V (Level 200)
• Webcast: High Availability with Hyper-V
• Webcast: Hyper-V Quick Migration on a Failover Cluster
• Webcast: Introducing Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV)
• Webcast: Making Highly-Available VMs (2008 R2)
• Webcast: Server Virtualization Webcast Videos
• Webcast: Top 10 VMWare Myths, including CSV and live migration
• Website: Hyper-V Server (2008)
• Website: Hyper-V Server (2008 R2)
• Whitepaper: Testing Hyper-V and Failover Clustering
• Whitepaper: Quick Migration with Hyper-V
• I’d add these handy TN Edge vids as well:
• Hyper-V Server 2008 R2: Bare Metal to Live Migration (In about an hour!) (BTE this vid is only 48.5 minutes long…just sayin’)

I prefer mine with PowerShell:

• Blog: Adding Features via PowerShell
• Blog: CLI: Adding Disks
• Blog: CLI: Cluster Creation
• Blog: CLI: Cluster Resource Groups
• Blog: CLI: Disk Resources
• Blog: CLI: Quorum
• Blog: Creating a Cluster using WMI
• Blog: Failover Clusters, Performance Counters, and PowerShell
• Blog: PowerShell for Failover Clustering: Frequently Asked Questions
• Blog: PowerShell for Failover Clustering: Getting Started
• Blog: PowerShell for Failover Clustering: Read-Only Cluster Access
• Blog: PowerShell for Failover Clustering in Windows Server 2008 R2
• Blog: PowerShell for Network Load Balancing (NLB) in Windows Server 2008 R2
• Blog: PowerShell Remoting and the “Double-Hop” Problem
• Blog: Failover Clustering WMI Provider Impersonation Limitations
• TechNet: How to create an Exchange SCC Failover Cluster with CMD

and a side of tools:

Utility: ClusPrep: Cluster Configuration Validation Wizard (2003)

Utility: Failover Cluster Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007

Utility: File Server Migration Toolkit (FSMT) (2008)

Utility: Microsoft iSCSI Target Software available to the public!

Utility: NLB Management Pack for SCOM 2007 Released

Utility: RSAT - Remote Server Administration Tools (2008)

Utility: RSAT – Remote Server Administration Tools (2008 R2)