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Hyper-V: Survival Guide

Kenneth — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:37:00 GMT

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This is a list of Hyper-V resources you can add too, and feel free to rearrange. Just click the "Edit" button above the article. For organization ideas, and other important links, see:

Microsoft Virtualization Community (stub page), because virtualization at Microsoft involves a lot more than Hyper-V

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Install and Configure Virtual Machines on Hyper-V

Kenneth — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 21:37:00 GMT

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Installing Hyper-V on a server establishes the server as a virtualization server. Each virtual machine you install on the server must be assigned resources to use and then be configured. The number of virtual machines you can run on any individual server depends on the server’s hardware configuration and workload.

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Hyper-V: Live Migration Network Configuration Guide

Kenneth — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 09:36:00 GMT

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This guide describes how to configure your network to use the live migration feature of Hyper-V™. It provides a detailed list of the networking configuration requirements for optimal performance and reliability, as well as recommendations for scenarios that do not meet these requirements.

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Windows Server 2008 R2 Migration Utilities + Hyper-V Migration Guide Update

Kenneth — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 09:31:00 GMT

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Ben Armstrong: We have just released an updated version of the Windows Server 2008 R2 Migration Utilities that now adds support for Hyper-V, plus we have updated the Hyper-V Migration Guide. You can grab the bits from here:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=5c1ec14a-e9d7-46ea-9c6e-73d6bc4219b4

And read the guide here:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee849855(WS.10).aspx

But what is this exactly?

Simply put – this is a set of command line tools (PowerShell to be precise) and associated documentation that allow you to take a Hyper-V installation on a Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2008 R2 computer, and move all the Hyper-V bits (virtual machines and all) to a new computer running Windows Server 2008 R2.

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A VMware Administrator’s Guide to Hyper-V

Kenneth — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 15:10:00 GMT

[excerpt]Managing how you share CPU, memory and storage resources is the key to avoiding performance problems in any virtual environment. Hyper-V environments are no different. This paper will cover some lessons learned in years of experience managing capacity resources in a VMware environment and how those same techniques can be applied to a Hyper-V environment.

Since many of you are already familiar with VMware, we will be comparing Hyper-V to VMware. We will cover how to manage resources (CPU, memory storage and disk I/O) to obtain the maximum safe VM density, how to avoid performance bottlenecks, and how to compute how much capacity there is to add virtual machines for each host and cluster.

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Hyper-V How To: Fix Hyper-V Top Issue: Unknown Devices

bink — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:36:26 GMT

TONYSO: Some customers seem to be having trouble when they open up device manager in a VM and see that some devices are listed as “unknown device.” From the Troubleshooting Hyper-V topic on TechNet:

Cause: Device Manager does not recognize devices that are optimized for use in virtual machines and run using Hyper-V until integration services are installed. The unknown devices that are identified in Device Manager differ depending on the guest operating system and may include: VMBus, Microsoft VMBus HID Miniport, Microsoft VMBus Network Adapter, and storvsc miniport.

Some optimized devices are not available for certain guest operating systems. When a device is not supported on a guest operating system, the device will not work. You cannot install the device driver manually to try to make the device work. For a list of the devices that are available on each supported guest operating system, see http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=128037.

Solution: If the guest operating system is supported, integration services are available for that operating system. After you install the integration services, Device Manager will recognize the devices that are available for that guest operating system.

To install the guest operating system

Open Hyper-V Manager. Click Start, point to Administrative Tools, and then click Hyper-V Manager.
Connect to the virtual machine. From the Virtual Machines section of the results pane, using one of the following methods:
- Right-click the name of the virtual machine and click Connect.
- Select name of the virtual machine. In the Action pane, click Connect.
The Virtual Machine Connection tool opens.
From the Action menu in the Virtual Machine Connection window, click Start.
The virtual machine starts, searches the startup devices, and loads the installation package.
Proceed through the installation.

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Virtualizing Windows Essential Business Server 1.3

bink — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 06:43:00 GMT

This document provides guidance for virtualizing Windows® Essential Business Server (EBS) 2008 using the Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V™ technology.

Server virtualization enables multiple operating systems to run on a single physical server as virtual machines. With server virtualization, you can consolidate the workloads of multiple servers onto a smaller number of fully utilized servers. Fewer servers can reduce hardware, energy, and management costs. By using the Microsoft® Hyper-V™ technology in the Windows Server® 2008 operating system, you can run a virtualized instance of Windows® Essential Business Server on a single server or several servers.

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Project: Virtual Reality Check

bink — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 21:31:00 GMT

"Project: Virtual Reality Check" (VRC).

This is a independent research joint venture between our companies Login Consultants and PQR. The primary purpose of VRC is to release multiple whitepapers to provide information about the scalability and best practices of virtualized Terminal Server and Desktop workloads. The first phase of Project VRC on virtualizing Windows XP and 32-bit Windows 2003 Terminal Services on ESX, XenServer and Hyper-v.

The goal of Project VRC is to investigate, validate and give answers to the following questions:

How does various Microsoft Windows Client OS's scale as a virtual desktop?
How does a VDI infrastructure scale in comparison (virtualized) Terminal Server?
Which performance optimization on the host and guest virtualization level can be configured, and what is the impact of these settings on user density?
With the introduction of the latest hypervisor technologies, can we now recommend running large scale TS/CTX workloads on a virtualization platform?
How do the two usage scenarios compare, that is Microsoft Terminal Server [TS] only, versus TS plus XenApp?
How do x86 and x64 TS platforms compare in scalability on bare metal and virtualized environments?
What is the best way to partition (memory and vCPU) the Virtual Machines the hypervisor host, to achieve the highest possible user density?

All together over 150 test have been carried out. However, project VRC is not finished, and probably never will be. Additional publications are planned about virtualizing x64 workloads and the other (Vista and Windows 7) client OS's. Also, we look forward to evaluate new innovations in the hypervisor, broker and hardware arena.

The whitepapers can be downloaded freely from www.virtualrealitycheck.net.

Virtualizing SQL Server 2008 with Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V

bink — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 20:05:00 GMT

Design and configure SQL Server 2008 with High-Availability while leveraging the new features of Windows Server 2008 Clustering and Hyper-V virtualization at this session. Get an in-depth understanding of the new features in SQL Server 2008 high-availability and enhancements such as mirroring and much more!

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Managing Virtualization 360 from the Datacenter to the Desktop

bink — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 20:04:00 GMT

Learn about the foundation of the Microsoft virtualization strategy and solutions in this session. Understand the meaning and benefits of virtualization and also gain insights into the overall Microsoft virtualization strategy that range from the desktop to the data center. Hear from the experts as they clear up misconceptions about virtualization, describe virtualization solutions, and examine suitable workloads that would benefit from virtualization!

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