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Justin Zarb Senior Premier Field Engineer Premier Field Engineering
Andrew Bennett Architect Evangelist Developer & Platform Evangelism
We ran a Hyper-V day at the end of October, and collated a series of useful links and best practice guidance. Well here we go:
Architecture
Informal Hyper-V Architecture Disucssions
http://edge.technet.com/Media/Hyper-V-how-it-works-Interview-with-PMs-Part-1/
http://edge.technet.com/Media/Hyper-V-how-it-works-Interview-with-PMs-Part-2/
http://edge.technet.com/Media/Hyper-V-Part-3-TAP-and-VSS-Snapshots-Interview-with-PMs/
http://edge.technet.com/Media/Hyper-V-how-it-works-Interview-with-PMs-Part-4/
Guest Operating System Support
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc794868.aspx
Disk Performance
http://blogs.technet.com/winserverperformance/archive/2008/09/19/hyper-v-and-vhd-performance-dynamic-vs-fixed.aspx
Configuring Virtual Networks
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc816585.aspx
Backing up Hyper-V
http://blogs.technet.com/virtualization/archive/2008/08/29/backing-up-hyper-v-virtual-machines.aspx
Server Core
Server Core Blog
http://blogs.technet.com/server_core/default.aspx
Install This Update
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/950050
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/956697
Hyper-v installed image parts:
http://blogs.msdn.com/mikekol/archive/2008/03/27/hyper-v-installation-tricks-part-3-integrated-installation-and-the-beauty-of-the-win6-servicing-stack.aspx
Step By Step
Online at
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc753802.aspx#bkmk_deployingservercore
http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver/longhorn/en/library/bab0f1a1-54aa-4cef-9164-139e8bcc44751033.mspx?mfr=true
Download in Word Document in the Download Center
http://download.microsoft.com/
Performance + High Availability
Performance Tuning Guidelines for Server 2008
http://download.microsoft.com/download/9/c/5/9c5b2167-8017-4bae-9fde-d599bac8184a/Perf-tun-srv.docx
Compare Windows 2008 Specs
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/compare-specs.aspx
Integration Components
http://blogs.msdn.com/tvoellm/archive/2008/04/19/hyper-v-how-to-make-sure-you-are-getting-the-best-performance-when-doing-performance-comparisons.aspx
Hardware Requirements for a Failover Cluster
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc771404.aspx#BKMK_Hardware_Requirements
Understanding Quorum Configurations in Failover Cluster
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/b18e0ed7-4fa5-463c-bba9-9128faa4c8e9
Validating a Failover Cluster Configuration
http://www.windowsservercatalog.com/results.aspx?bCatID=1291&cpID=0&avc=10&OR=1
Hyper-V Step-by-Step Guide: Hyper-V and Failover Clustering
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc732181.aspx
Server Core Configurator
http://www.codeplex.com/CoreConfig
Server Core Commands
http://msmvps.com/blogs/ad/archive/2008/03/27/server-core-commands.aspx
Install Increased Functionality Update
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/951308
Install Hotfixes Listed Here
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957311/en-us
Managing Hyper-V in the Enterprise
PowerShell Management Library for Hyper-V
http://www.codeplex.com/PSHyperv
Benp PowerShell Blog
http://blogs.technet.com/benp
SCVMM Blog
http://blogs.technet.com/chengw
Deployment and Migrating to Hyper-V
VMC to Hyper-V Tool
http://blogs.technet.com/matthts/archive/2008/09/12/vmc-to-hyper-v-import-tool-available.aspx
Virtual to Virtual Migration
http://blogs.technet.com/askcore/archive/2008/09/19/migrating-to-hyper-v-from-virtual-server-or-virtual-pc-tips-and-suggestions.aspx
Using SCVMM
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/magazine/cc137716.aspx
Converting Physical Machines to Virtual Machines
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc764232.aspx
MAP Toolkit
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=67240b76-3148-4e49-943d-4d9ea7f77730&DisplayLang=en
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