Tech Ed: Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V News!

re: Tech Ed: Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V News!

Mark Stabb — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 19:28:26 GMT

Hi there

We have two dell poweredge 2650 running 32bit ZEON 2.3ghz processors which we would like to attach to the SAN and run non crtical VHD's using Hyper V. Is this going to be possible? i.e. will hyper v 32bit run on these servers given thier old processor architecture.

Cheers

Mark

Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V and AMD's 6-core Opteron

I'm a PC Blog — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 13:09:40 GMT

Hello, this is Bryon Surace . I’m a senior program manager on the Windows virtualization team at

Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V and AMD's 6-core Opteron

Windows Virtualization Team Blog — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 17:43:51 GMT

Hello, this is Bryon Surace. I’m a senior program manager on the Windows virtualization team at Microsoft. The recent announcement by AMD regarding the 6-core AMD Opteron processor (codenamed ‘Istanbul’) marks another milestone in AMD’s continued mission

Another New Feature for Hyper-V R2: Processor Compatibility

Realtime Community | Windows Server — Fri, 22 May 2009 07:39:22 GMT

This is nice, and completely expected. Microsoft announces at Tech Ed last week a new feature for Hyper-V R2 which will ease the aggregation of servers for high-availability. Microsoft's "Processor Compatibility" feature enables Live Migration to occur

VMware FUD Fiasco Part 3.

Windows Virtualization Team Blog — Mon, 18 May 2009 19:50:06 GMT

Virtualization Nation, We were very busy last week with numerous virtualization announcements from TechEd.

Waar blijft de 4 x 16-core server?

Hyper-V blog van Hans Vredevoort — Sun, 17 May 2009 23:43:42 GMT

Naast de 64 logical processor upgrade in Hyper-V R2 (inclusief Hyper-V Server R2) worden ook de volgende

Hyper-V News at TechEd in LA

News — Thu, 14 May 2009 03:05:38 GMT

Jeff Woolsey – after the #TechEd session – posted an update on Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 on the Virtualization

re: Tech Ed: Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V News!

Gabrie — Wed, 13 May 2009 16:56:49 GMT

To be sure I understand correctly:

At boot up of the VM, the VM with compatibility enabled, checks the lowest denominator in the cluster / host group. And as long as this VM is running, it will then stick to this feature set.

What happens when I add a host to this group with even lower features? I would expect this VM to NOT lower its features set. Correct?

Will LiveMigration check this and not allow LiveMig to this host of this VM?

Can a lower host be added to the hostgroup AND lower the lowest denominator without VM downtime?

I'm comparing to VMware EVC to understand. In EVC you add hosts to a cluster. Then enable EVC and it determines the lowest denominator. You cannot add a lower host after that without VM downtime.

Not criticizing or bashing, just wanting to get the details.

regards

Gabrie

re: Tech Ed: Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V News!

tomvoss — Wed, 13 May 2009 16:42:57 GMT

Does enabling processor compatibility hurt VM performance at all?

Hyper-V R2 – News from Tech Ed USA

Swiss IT Professional and TechNet Blog — Wed, 13 May 2009 15:47:19 GMT

Yesterday at Tech Ed USA, we announced the following relating to Hyper-V R2 (Hyper-V release that will