re: Larry Doyle and Hyper-V

Tim Kelly — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 20:28:01 GMT

A great description of employing Hyper-V agreed. However, a production installation on one server? I would add that this type of planning and implementation gives credence to Windows haters, because if that server suffers any physical hardware or OS issues, that customer is down! I may not have the whole picture here, but the synopsis indicated the customer's production kit was collapsed to one server.

Cheers.

re: Larry Doyle and Hyper-V

Larry — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 00:13:11 GMT

Hi,

yes that is correct that it is all on 1 physical server. However, these are the budgetary type restrictions placed by Small Businesses - I think this is a pretty resilient server in terms of RAID, UPS and effective monitored backup solution with DPM giving a quick recovery time. I take back my comment on Snapshots - these should NEVER be used in production. With the SP1 for DPM and patch for Hyper-V you can now backup the Hyper-V host server and the VMs will be backed up while running also.