Hyper-V Survival Guide: everything you want to know on virtualization!
At Technet I found this huge list that seems to be updated frequently with more material. I copy it also here but it’s better to subscribe to the direct RSS link to get all new additions: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/hyper-v-survival-guide/rss.aspx
Hyper-V: Survival Guide
For organization ideas, and other important links, see:
- New! Hyper-V Cmdlets In Windows Server 8
- PowerShell Survival Guide
- Windows Server 2008 R2 Survival Guide
Microsoft Virtualization Community, because virtualization at Microsoft involves a lot more than Hyper-V.
Planning
- New! Hyper-V Common Criteria Certificate
- New! Windows Server® 2012 Hyper-V Network Virtualization Survival Guide
- New! What’s New in Hyper-V Virtual Switch
- NEW! Hyper-V in Windows Server 2012 Beta (aka Windows Server “8”)
- Bringing Hyper-V to Windows 8
- Windows Server “8”Beta Hyper-V Component Architecture Poster
- Windows Server “8” Beta: Hyper-V & Scale-up Virtual Machines Part 1…
- KB: 2526776 “An update that enables the Windows Developer Preview or Windows Server Developer Preview to be hosted in a Hyper-V virtual machine on Windows Server 2008 R2”
- Doing a simple Storage Migration with Windows Server “8” – Ben Armstrong
- How does Storage Migration actually work? – Ben Armstrong
- VMWare Virtual Machine Converter Solution Accelerator Beta Program Signup – MS Connect
- Everything you wanted to know about SR-IOV in Hyper-V. Part 1 – John Howard
- Windows 8 Hyper-V Feature Glossary – Aidan Finn
- Windows 8 Hyper-V What’s New – Nathan Lasnoski
- Windows 8 Networking – Nathan Lasnoski
- WS8B Simple Hyper-V Network Virtualization Demo – scriptcenter
- Windows 8 Configure Hyper-V Replica – Nathan Lasnoski
- Windows 8 Monitor Hyper-V Replica – Nathan Lasnoski
- Windows Server “8” Beta Scale-Out File Server for SQL Server 2012 – Step-by-step Installation -Jose Barreto
- Hyper-V Management Improvements – Aidan Finn
- Windows 8 Hyper-V client vs. workstation virtualization software (Requires Free Membership to View)
- Windows Server 8 Virtual Fibre Channel with Hyper-V overview
- Windows Server “8” Beta – Hyper-V Replica
- Using Win Server 8 as VHD to go – Hans Vredevoort
- Testing Hyper-V Server 8 Beta – – Hans Vredevoort
- Windows 8 Storage and Hyper-V – Part 3: The Art of Creating a VHD – Hans Vredevoort
- Windows 8 introduces SR-IOV to Hyper-V – Didier van Hoye
- Hyper-V SR-IOV Overview
- Increased Network Performance using SR-IOV in Windows Server 2012
- Enabling Hyper-V Remote Management – Configuring Constrained Delegation For SMB and Highly Available SM – Taylor Brown
- Windows 8 and why you should care – Kristian Nese
- Create a Windows Server 8 iSCSI Target Server – Thomas Maurer
- Test cases for Hyper-V over SMB (includes PowerShell examples) – Jose Barreto
- Hyper-V over SMB – Quick Provisioning a VM on an SMB File Share – Jose Barreto
- Deploying Windows Server 2012 Beta with SMB Direct (SMB over RDMA) and the Mellanox ConnectX-2/ConnectX-3 using InfiniBand – Step by Step – Jose Barreto
- WS8B Hyper-V New high-availability and migration features bring the “wow” – Windows IT Pro
- Features and Differences between Windows Server 8 with Hyper-V, Hyper-V Server 8 and Hyper-V Client – Leandro Carvalho
- Windows 8 Server Hyper-V Live Migration Without Shared Storage – James Bannan
- Monitoring VMs in Windows Server 8
- Mounting virtual hard disks in Windows Server “8”
- Client Hyper-V Survival Guide
- Hyper-V Cmdlets In Windows Server 8
- Hyper-V Cmdlets in Windows PowerShell
- Hyper-V Replica PowerShell CMDLETS – Hyper-V.NU
- Windows 8 Survival Guide for IT Pros
- Windows Server “8” Beta Test Lab Guides
- New! Hyper-V Architecture Demonstraton Video
- New! Using Hyper-V Export for Backups in Hyper-V
- New! MultiPoint Server Virtualization Support
- Virtualization Infrastructure: Which Platform is Right for You?
- Demystifying Microsoft’s Virtualization Stack: #1 Planning Hyper-V Installs
- Client Virtualization in Microsoft Lync 2010
- Does your PC have what it takes to run Windows 8’s Hyper-V?
- Videointerview: What is your favorite Hyper-V feature in Windows 8
- Understanding Microsoft’s High-Availability Solutions
- Windows Server 8: Introducing Hyper-V Extensible Switch
- How to Run Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 Standalone for Learning
- NetApp Hyper-V Cloud Fast Track with Cisco
- CentOS Support on Hyper-V
- Best Practices for Virtualizing Exchange Server 2010 with Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V
- Microsoft iSCSI Software Target 3.3 Common Criteria Evaluation and Validation Scheme Validation Report
- A Guide to Hyper-V Dynamic Memory
- What’s new in Hyper-V R2 SP1 blog post
- Hyper-V Terms
- Hyper-V Architecture
- Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Hyper-V Component Architecture Poster
- Online Seadragon (deepzoom) viewer for the Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V Component Architecture Poster
- TechNet Virtualization Scenario Hub
- Licensing for Virtual Environments
- Hypervisor Functional Specification v2.0: For Windows Server 2008 R2
- List of supported operating systems
- Server Virtualization Validation Program
- Using the Server Virtualization Validation Program to validate your Virtual Environment
- Performance Tuning Guidelines for Windows Server 2008 R2
- How to confirm your PC supports hardware virtualization
- How Microsoft Moved to a Virtualized Infrastructure
- Explaining Microsoft RemoteFX
- MMS 2010 Labs delivered ~40,000 Hyper-V VMs for ~80 different labs in 5 days on just 41 physical servers
- Using a Virtual Lab for Your Application Lifecycle
- Windows Server Virtualization Calculators
- Hypervisor Functional Specification v2.0: For Windows Server 2008 R2
- Isolation of Virtual Machines
- Hypervisor Security
- HP Integration Note for HP ProLiant and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1
- SCVMM Self Service Portal 2.0 RC
- Vid: Virtual Machine Manager Self Service Portal 2.0
- Lessons from the Trenches: Deploying Hyper-V R2 and NetApp
- Netapp: Best Practices for File System Alignment in Virtual Environments
- Getting to Know Hyper-V: A Walkthrough from Initial Setup to Common Scenarios
- Windows Server 2008 R2 Feature Components poster in Deepzoom (free online, includes Hyper-V architecture components)
- Considerations when hosting Active Directory domain controller in virtual hosting environments
- Hyper-V: Technical Library Resources
- Hyper-V: Hardware Considerations
- Microsoft Hardware-Assisted Virtualization Detection Tool
- Requirements and Limits for Virtual Machines and Hyper-V in Windows Server 2008 R2
- Hyper-V Release Notes
- Hyper-V R2 update & hotfix list
- Hypervisor Functional Specification v2.0: For Windows Server 2008 R2
- Infrastructure Planning and Design Guides for Virtualization
- Hyper-V Planning and Deployment Guide (download)
- Dynamic Memory announcement (Virtualization Blog)
- Capacity Planning from a Memory Standpoint (Virtualization Blog)
- Page Sharing (Virtualization Blog)
- Page Sharing Follow-Up (Virtualization Blog)
- Second Level Paging (Virtualization Blog)
- Hyper-V Dynamic Memory (Virtualization Blog)
- Documentation for Windows 7 & Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Beta
- Software and supported virtualization environments
- Answering Exchange Virtualization Questions and Addressing Misleading VMware Guidance
- Step-by-Step Guide to Getting Started with Hyper-V
- Storage options for Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V
- Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Overview
- Hyper-V Getting Started Guide
- Deploying Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 on USB Flash Drive
- Best Practices for Running Linux on Hyper-V White Paper
- Windows Server 2008 R2 Migration Utilities
- Windows Server 2008 R2 Virtual Hard Disk Performance white paper
- Hyper-V Performance FAQ R2
- Hyper-V Virtual Machine Snapshots: FAQ
- Protecting Virtual Environments with DPM 2010
- Prerequisites and Known Issues for protecting Hyper-V using DPM 2007 SP1
- Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 4.0
- HP Sizer for Microsoft Hyper-V 2008 R2
- What VMM Does with AZMan Role Definitions from Hyper-V
- How to determine the appropriate page file size for 64-bit versions of Windows
- Live Migration Network Configuration Guide
- Microsoft Server Energy Savings Calculator
- What are the uses for different types of virtual networks?
- Microsoft Integrated Virtualization Calculator
- Performance Tuning Guidelines for Windows Server 2008 (you can use these to test your production loads for capacity planning)
- How Microsoft Designs the Virtualization Host and Network Infrastructure Technical Case Study
- Best Practices for Deploying Virtual Machines by Using Hyper-V Virtualization Technology Technical Case Study
- Hyper-V RAM Calculator
- Will My Computer Run Hyper-V? Detecting Intel VT and AMD-V
- Hardware Assisted Virtualization Detection Tool
- Hyper-V: Planning for Backup
- Hyper-V Solution Accelerators: Infrastructure Planning and Design -Windows Server Virtualization
- Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit for Hyper-V
- Understanding Microsoft Support of Cluster Solutions
- Hitachi Storage Cluster for Microsoft Hyper-V: Optimizing Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery in Microsoft Hyper-V Environments
- MSDN & TechNet Powered by Hyper-V Blog
- MSDN & TechNet Powered by Hyper-V Whitepaper
- Planning for Hyper-V Security
- Security in a Virtual World
- Microsoft Security Compliance Manager
- Security Considerations with Forefront Edge Virtual Deployments
- Solution Accelerators: Infrastructure Planning and Design -Selecting the Right Virtualization Technology
- Virtualization Capabilities of Windows Server 2008 (Level 100)
- Hyper-V Security Guide
- An Introduction to Hyper-V in Windows Server 2008
- Are You Ready for Virtualization? (Level 200)
- Checklist: Configure Virtual Machines for Development and Test
- Checklist: Configure Virtual Machines for High Availability
- Checklist: Configure Virtual Machines for Server Consolidation
- Essential Tools for Planning Your Virtual Infrastructure
- E-Clinic 5935 – Introducing Hyper-V in Windows Server 2008
- Hyper-V FAQ
- TechNet Library Hyper-V Technical Information and Resources
- IE virtualization whitepaper
- Visual Studio Lab Management 2010 RC Eval VHD walkthru
- Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008: First Look
- Download Free Microsoft Server 2008 R2
- Green IT in Practice: SQL Server Consolidation in Microsoft IT
- Links to Essential Planning and Piloting Resources for IT Professionals
- BizTalk Server Hyper-V Guide
- Security Considerations with Forefront Edge Virtual Deployments
- HP Sizer for Microsoft Hyper-V 2008 R2
- Storage Tip: How to calculate Windows Server 2008 LUN Limit per HBA
- Disaster Recovery in a Geographically Dispersed Cross-Site Virtual Environment
- Performance characterization report for Microsoft Hyper-V R2 on HP StorageWorks 4400 Enterprise Virtual Array
- Performance characterization report for Microsoft Hyper-V R2 on HP ProLiant BL490c G6 servers
- Improving scalability and storage performance with HP StorageWorks EVA8400 and Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2
- Performance characterization report for Microsoft Hyper-V R2 on HP ProLiant G6 servers with Intel Xeon X5500 or AMD Opteron 8400 processors
- Performance characterization report for Microsoft Hyper-V R2 on HP ProLiant DL785 G6 servers
- Performance characterization of Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V on HP ProLiant servers and MSA2000 storage
- Running Complex SAP Landscapes in a Virtualized Datacenter
- Emulex OneConnect FCoE UCNA Outperforms the Competition and Approaches One Million IOPS Barrier
- NetApp Solution Guide: Microsoft Exchange Server, SQL Server, SharePoint Server Mixed Workload on Microsoft Hyper-V and NetApp Fabric MetroCluster
- Avanade – IT Firm Virtualizes Databases: Trims Servers 85 Percent, Ups Performance 50 Percent
- Virtual Hard Disk Performance – Windows Server 2008 / Windows Server 2008 R2 / Windows 7
- Tony Voellm’s blog
- Windows Server Performance Team Blog – Windows Server Operating System Performance information, tools and discussion
- Microsoft Hyper-V 2008 R2 IDE vs. SCSI Performance
- Microsoft Multipath I/O Step-by-Step Guide
- Benchmarking Hyper-V on Windows Server 2008 R2 x64
- Virtualization Performance of SAP ERP Solutions on the Intel Xeon Processor 5500 Series with Microsoft Hyper-V
- A Performance Comparison of AMD OpteronTM Processors with Microsoft® Hyper-VTM Server 2008 R2
- Running SQL Server 2008 in a Hyper-V Environment Best Practices and Performance Considerations White Paper
- Deployment Considerations for Windows Server 2008 failover cluster nodes on different, routed subnets
- Multi-site Clustering Whitepaper
- Introducing Windows Server 2008 Failover Clustering
- iSCSI Software Target 3.2 FAQ
- Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V Core Parking Whitepaper: Processor Power Management in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2
- Time Synchronization in Hyper-V
- Failover Clustering & Hyper-V: Planning your Highly-Available Virtualization Environment
- TechNet Edge Video: Dynamic Memory Overview
- TechNet Edge Video: Taking a look at RemoteFX
- Some observations on Dynamic VHD Performance
- IOMETER Open source I/O subsystem measurement and characterization tool for single and clustered systems
- Virtualisation Video: Windows Server Licensing
- Performance Analysis of Logs (PAL) Tool: version 2.0
- 5Nine Manager for Hyper-V
- Using SharePoint Products and Technologies in a Hyper-V virtual environment
- Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Performance and capacity requirements for Hyper-V
- File Server Capacity Tool – (64 bit)
- Using Hyper-V with Windows Small Business Server 2008
- Best Practices for Using Hyper-V with Windows Small Business Server 2008
- Known Issues with Running Windows Small Business Server 2008 in a Hyper-V Environment
- Scenarios for Deploying Windows Small Business Server 2008 in a Hyper-V environment
- Blog: Building a new Hyper-V Private Cloud Lab
Deploying
- New! Configuring Windows 2012 Private VLAN (PVLAN)
- New! Installing Android 2.2 on Hyper-V
- New! Using PowerShell to check Integration Services versions
- New! Dealing with MAC address pool duplication in Hyper-V
- New! Requirements for RemoteFX USB redirection
- New! Requesting Hyper-V Replica certificates from a CA (incl scripts) http://aka.ms/okiizs
- Configure a Hyper-V VM for automatic startup
- Creating virtual hard disks–the slow way
- Install CentOS on Windows 8 Hyper-V
- Hyper-V Configuration & Deployment Guidance
- Linux Integration Services Version v3.2 for Hyper-V
- Core Configurator 2.0 (Windows Server 2008 R2)
- Hyper-V Deployment & Best Practices
- Hyper-V Best Practices Analyzer for Windows Server 2008 R2
- Virtual Machine Provisioning with Opalis
- Hyper-V: How to make sure you are getting the best performance
- Best practices: Microsoft Hyper-V Dynamic Data Center in an HP BladeSystem environment
- Hyper-V Planning and Deployment Guide
- Hyper-V Performance FAQ
- Install the Hyper-V Role on a Full Installation of Windows Server 2008
- Install the Hyper-V Role on a Server Core Installation of Windows Server 2008
- Constrained Delegation to remotely manage Hyper-V that uses CIFS/SMB file shares
- Failover Clustering for Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V with File Server Storage
- TechNet Webcast: Disaster Recovery and Advanced Data Protection Manager 2010 Scenarios
- Getting to grips with Hyper-V’s API
- Hyper-V and Multiprocessor VMs: Perf
- Hyper-V and VHD Performance – Dynamic vs. Fixed
- Install and Configure Hyper-V Tools for Remote Administration
- Microsoft Virtualization Best Practices for SQL Server
- Hyper-V API from Powershell
- Configuration-only VM export
- Hyper-V: Configuring Virtual Machines
- Hyper-V Virtual Machine (VM) Parent-Child Configuration Using Differencing Disks
- Dynamic Data Center Toolkit
- Hyper-V: Configuring Virtual Machines – Configure Disks and Storage
- Hyper-V: Configuring Virtual Machines – Configure Memory and Processors
- Hyper-V: Configuring Virtual Machines – Configure Networking
- How does basic networking work in Hyper-V?
- Hyper-V: Configuring Virtual Machines – Configure a Virtual Machine for High Availability
- Linux Integration Services v2.1 for Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V R2
- Hyper-V: Connect to a Virtual Machine
- Hyper-V: Create Virtual Machines
- Hyper-V: Install a Guest Operating System
- Hyper-V Scripts
- Scripting Hyper-V with WMI and PowerShell: Part 1
- Deploying System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 (for backup)
- Hyper-v and Snapshots (Part 1)
- Hyper-v Snapshots (Part 2)
- Install the Hyper-V Role on a Server Core Installation of Windows Server 2008
- Managing Snapshots with Hyper-V
- Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Live Migration
- Starting a Hyper-V Virtual Machine via a Script
- Step-by-Step Guide for Testing Hyper-V and Failover Clustering
- Storing Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V files on a CIFS/SMB file share
- Understanding Networking with Hyper-V
- Virtual Machine Migration Guide: How To Migrate from Virtual Server or Virtual PC to Hyper-V
- Windows Server 2008 Failover Cluster w/ Hyper-V role Hotfix
- Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V and BitLocker Drive Encryption
- Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Failover Clustering Options
- HP Factory-Installed Operating System Software for Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2 User guide
- Using HP ProLiant Network Teaming Software with Microsoft® Windows® Server 2008 Hyper-V
- Transparent Hyper-V VLANs now supported with HP NIC Teams
- Configuring Transparent Hyper-V VLANs with HP Network Configuration Utility and HP Virtual Connect
- HP Network Teaming tested with Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1
- Microsoft iSCSI Software Target Migration Guide
- How to Install Forefront Security for Exchange Server (FSE) in a Hyper-V Virtual Environment
- How to Configure Remote Management of Hyper-V Server (free version) – in a workgroup
- Configure the iSCSI initiator in Windows Server Core or Hyper-V Server
- Using Hyper-V Differencing Disks with VDI New! Pagefile size on Hyper-V Servers
- Installing Ubuntu Server 10.10 on Hyper-V
- Bare Metal Deployment of Hyper-V Servers with VMM 2012 and HP iLO
Managing
- New! Backup and Recovery for Hyper-v : Veeam Backup Free Edition provides a number of powerful utilities for managing VMs. It complements your regular backup tool by providing easy ad-hoc backups of individual VMs.
- New! SCOM 2007 R2 Hyper-V Management Pack Extension (for Performance Monitoring)
- New! Change IP address Hyper-V Cluster
- New! Skimming a Hyper-V Service Event log with PowerShell
- New! PS – Export a virtual machine by Virtual PC Guy
- New! Common Hyper-V Configuration Problems
- New! Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 7 with Service Pack 1 (SP1)
- New! Monitoring Hyper-V Performance
- New! Hyper-V Performance FAQ R2
- New! List of Microsoft Support Knowledge Base Articles Related to Microsoft Virtualization Technologies for 2011
- New! How to Compact a Dynamic VHD with Diskpart
- Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010 Tools
- Measuring Performance on Hyper-V
- Protecting Hyper-V Machines with System Center Data Protection Manager 2010
- TechEd 2010 NZ Demo – Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V Performance Analysis: How You Can Get the Most out of Hyper-V
- List of VMM Updates PowerShell Management Library for Hyper-V R2
- Windows 2008 Failover Clustering: Patching a Windows 2008 SP2 Failover Cluster running Highly Available File Services (Step by Step)
- Microsoft Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows Vista with SP1 (x64)
- Microsoft Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows Vista with SP1 (x86)
- HVRemote – Hyper-V Remote Management configuration utility
- Beta release of Virtual Machine Servicing Tool 3.0
- Virtual Machine Connection Key Combinations with Hyper-V
- Achieving High Availability for Hyper-V
- Backup and Disaster Recovery for Server Virtualization
- How to Protect your Microsoft Virtualized Environment with DPM2010
- Hyper-V Step-by-Step Guide: Hyper-V and Failover Clustering
- Performance counter for iSCSI
- Offline Virtual Machine Servicing Tool
- Performance Tuning Guidelines for Windows Server 2008: Hyper-V R2 white paper
- Virtualization Security Best Practices
- KB: 961804
- Virtualization WMI Provider
- Hyper-V Web Manager (Codeplex)
- Hyper-V WMI Using PowerShell Scripts – Part 1
- KB958662: How to back up Hyper-V virtual machines from the parent partition on a Windows Server 2008-based computer by using Windows Server Backup
- VM Operations
- Managing Virtual Switches and Networks Across Hyper-V Hosts
- Hyper-V: How to back up Hyper-V VMs from the Host using Windows Server Backup
- Windows Memory Diagnostic Tool
- How DPM Protects Hyper-V
- Virtual Machine Servicing Tool 3.0
- SCCM Software Update Management Guide
- Turning off a virtual machine
- List of WMI-Related Hotfixes for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2
- Hyper-V Integration Components version list table
- Stress tools to test your Web server
- Tools for Exchange Performance and Scalability Evaluation
- BGINFO tool: automatically displays relevant information about a Windows computer on the desktop’s background, such as the computer name, IP address, service pack version
- Hyper-V Networking Best Practices
- Hyper-V NIC Teaming and FAQ
- Microsoft Support Policy for NIC Teaming with Hyper-V
- Hyper-V Private Cloud Characteristics and Staffing
- New: Monitoring a Hyper-V environment (Part 1)
- New: Monitoring a Hyper-V environment (Part 2)
Optimizing
- How to defrag a Hyper-V R2 Cluster Shared Volume
- Definitive Guide to Hyper-V Network Optimization
- Consolidate Performance w/ Hyper-V
- Hyper-V Performance on R900 with Six-Core Intel Xeon Whitepaper
- Hyper-V Performance Scales Well in 24-Core Dell Server
- Performance Advantage of Dell PowerEdge R900 with Hyper-V
- SAP SD Standard Application Benchmark Results
- Hitachi Universal Storage Platform Family Best Practices with Hyper-V Best Practices Guide
- NetApp Top Top Five Hyper-V Best Practices
- NetApp Storage Best Practices For Microsoft Virtualization
- NetApp Implementation Guide For Microsoft Virtualization
- BestPractices for a Microsoft Hyper-V Dynamic Data Center in an HP BladeSystem Environment White Paper
- Performance Analysis of Logs (PAL) Tool
- Solving storage for virtualization (server and VDI) with Virsto and Microsoft
Video
- New! Dynamic Memory Architecture Part 1
- New! Dynamic Memory Architecture Part 2
- Hyper-V Server 2008 R2: Bare Metal to Live Migration (In about an hour!)
- Using Windows XP Mode to Run Older Programs
- Dynamic Memory for Hyper-V
- P2V Migration for Software Assurance Beta with Jeremy Chapman
- Microsoft System Center Management for Virtualization
- NVSPBIND Demo with Keith Mange
- Installation des System Center Virtual Machine Managers 2012 Release Candidate (German)
Troubleshooting
- Troubleshooting Performance Problems in SQL Server 2008
- Troubleshooting Cluster Shared Volumes with HP EVA MPIO
- Troubleshooting Hyper-V
- Hyper-V: Troubleshooting Snapshot Restore Domain Logon Failure
- Security configuration guidance support
- MAC Address allocation and apparent network issues MAC collisions can cause
Podcast
- Virtualization in a Nutshell 01:07:19
- Hyper-Green Virtualization: Scaling Enterprise IT for Energy Efficiency 58
- Understanding the Microsoft Server Virtualization Portfolio, Including Hyper-V 01:04:27
- TechNet Radio: Green IT (Part 2 of 2): Virtualization 45:50
- The Virtues of Virtualization 00:50:05
- A 360 View Inside the Virtual World 01:21:12
- Why Virtualization Is More Than Server Virtualization 01:00:30
- Virtualization and Windows Server 2008 01:45:28
- Windows Server Virtualization Under the Hood 00:57:45
- Examining Virtualization with Windows Server 2008 01:08:34
- Spotlight on Cost: Reducing Operational Costs in Your Data Center 60
- Spotlight on Cost: How to Control Costs in Your Branch Infrastructure 56
- Lower Total Cost of Ownership with Virtualization on Windows Server 2003 45:45
- Overview and Road Map of the Microsoft Virtualization Strategy 01:23:26
- Virtualization Capabilities of Windows Server 2008 57:55
- Platform Solution Blueprints: Virtualization and Infrastructure Management 57:56
- TechNet Radio: How Microsoft Does IT: The Future of Server Virtualization 23:36
- How Microsoft Designs the Virtualization Host and Network Infrastructure 1:30:05
- Introduction to Microsoft Core Infrastructure Optimization Model and Virtualization 50:10
- How Microsoft Does IT: Best Practices for Deploying Virtual Machines using Hyper-V Virtualization Technology 77
- Using Virtual Machine Manager and Windows PowerShell to Deploy HP Windows Server 2008 Academy Labs 01:24:53
- TechNet Radio: Get Ready for Microsoft Virtualization Technologies with the Assessment and Planning Solution 31:31
- TechNet Radio: Michael Murphy and Kevin Remde interview Jeff Woolsey on exciting new features of Windows Server virtualization. 26:48
- Windows Server 2008 Product Workload Scenarios 01:35:22
- Prepare Yourself for Windows Server 2008 (Part 1 of 8): Product Workload Scenarios 01:23:43
- Best Practices for Sizing Server Workloads with Microsoft Hyper-V and Intel Xeon Processor Families 01:20:22
- Virtualizing Test and Development Environments for a Quick Return on Investment 00:59:40
- Assess Your Server IT Infrastructure for Windows Server 2008 Migration and Virtualization 00:58:00
- Selecting the Right Virtualization Technology: Planning for Hyper-V and Terminal Services 01:15:19
- How to Implement Microsoft Hyper-V Server and Intel Virtualization Technology 01:17:31
- If I Virtualize It, How Do I Manage It? 01:30:37
- TechNet Radio: Managing Virtualization with Virtual Machine Manager 2007 32:26
- The New Server Core Installation Option in Windows Server 2008 01:26:05
- Running a Minimal Windows Server 2008 Environment with Server Core 01:13:29
- Hardening Windows Server 2008 Deployments with the Windows Server 2008 Security Guide 01:02:35
- HP Virtualization with Microsoft Hyper-V 01:05:27
- Prepare Yourself for Windows Server 2008 (Part 7 of 8): Windows PowerShell and Manageability Improvements 01:50:36
- How Microsoft does IT: Management and Operations in Windows Server 2008 00:57:32
- IT Manager Community Talk with Kevin – Virtualization 35
- TechNet Radio: Managing a Virtualized Environment today and in the future 00:27:13
- Managing a Virtual Solution with System Center 01:16:57
- Managing the Virtualized Test and Development Environment 00:52:58
- Windows PowerShell in Windows Server 2008 01:16:29
- Overview of System Center Virtual Machine Manager 44:56
- Protect Your Windows Virtual Environment with System Center Data Protection Manager 01:05:55
- How Microsoft Does IT: Enhancing High Availability with Server Core in Windows Server 2008 00:59:42
- High Availability with Hyper-V 01:09:26
- High Availability Basics with Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V 23
- Innovating High Availability with Cluster Shared Volumes 70
- Build High-Availability Infrastructures with Windows Server 2008 Failover Clustering 00:57:30
- Introduction to Failover Clustering 60
- Failover Clustering 101 01:10:35
- Failover Cluster Validation and Troubleshooting with Windows Server 2008 01:16:59
- Delivering High Availability to Your Infrastructure 00:51:39
- Failover Clustering Feature Road Map for Windows Server 2008 R2 64
- Storage Best Practices for Virtual Server 00:54:23
- Virtual Server 2005 and HP: Better Together 00:48:38
- Microsoft Virtualisierungs Podcast (in German, 13 Folgen)
Blogs
- Aidan Finn (Industry, MVP)
- Chris Wolf (Analyst, MVP)
- Clive Watson
- Clustering for Mere Mortals (David Bermingham, MVP)
- DanteDog’s Virtualization (Kenon Owens)
- Dariusz Porowski (MVP, MCT) (in Polish)
- Edvaldo Alessandro Cardoso Sobrinho (Industry, MVP)
- Hans Vredevoort (Hyper-V.nu, MVP)
- Hyper-V Blog (Unitrends)
- James O’Neill
- James van den Berg (Mountainss.wordpress.com, MVP)
- Jeff Johnson
- Joey Snow
- John Howard
- John Kelbley
- Keith Combs
- Microsoft Assesment and Planning Blog
- Microsoft App-V
- Microsoft Server App-V
- Matt Hester
- Nathan Lasnoski (MVP)
- The World According to Mitch
- Oliver Rist
- Robert Larson
- SMB Virtualization (Industry, MVP)
- Microsoft System Center
- Virtual PC Guy (Ben Armstrong)
- Virtualization Planet (Edwin Yuen)
- Virtual World
- Windows Server Customer Engineering
- Windows Server Team
- Windows Virtualization Team
- Windows Server 2008 and Microsoft virtualization blog
- Jose Barreto’s Blog
- Hyper-V-Server Blog (in German, MVP)
- Ertan Gulen’s Blog (Turkish)
- Tools hyper-v (in Brazil)
Forums
- LeandroEduardo (Virtual Machine MVP)
- Jamesvandenberg (MVP SCVMM )
- dynamic_dc (Allen Stewart)
- edwinyuen (Edwin Yuen)
- MS_Int_Virt (Kenon Owens)
- vtango (Vijay Tewari)
- VirtualPCGuy (Ben Armstrong)
- WinSrv (Windows Server iX)
- hypervserver (Carsten Rachfahl)
- DariuszPorowski (Virtual Machine MVP)
- Patrick Lownds (Virtual Machine MVP)
Tools
- Free Hyper-v Backup: VeeamZIP for your VMs . Veeam Backup Free Edition provides a number of powerful utilities for managing VMs. It complements your regular backup tool by providing easy ad-hoc backups of individual VMs.
- Microsoft iSCSI Software Initiator Version 2.08
- Unitrends Enterprise Backup is a free software version of the Unitrends backup and recovery solution. It enables you to protect up to 4 VMs absolutely free.
- VHD tool is an unmanaged code command-line tool which provides useful VHD manipulation functions including instant creation of large fixed-size VHDs.
- Hyper-V MachineRecovery Tool to recover/import Hyper-V machines which were not exported
- Virtual Machine Migration Test Wizard
- Failover Cluster Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007
- File Server Migration Toolkit (FSMT) (2008)
- Microsoft iSCSI Target Software available to the public!
- NLB Management Pack for SCOM 2007 Released
- RSAT – Remote Server Administration Tools (2008)
- RSAT – Remote Server Administration Tools (2008 R2)
- Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 5.0
- Microsoft Server Energy Savings Calculator
- Microsoft Integrated Virtualization Calculator
- Volume Activation Management Tool 2.0 (Beta)
- Hyper-V Monitor Gadget for Windows Sidebar
- HP Sizer for Microsoft Hyper-V R2
- VHD Resizer from VMToolkit
- RDP Active X control is a wrapper around the Microsoft Active X control that allows you to connect to a VM through a Hyper-V host.
- Royal TS V2 allows you to manage and connect to Hyper-V guests through a host
Miscellaneous
- Blog: Adding a Pass-Through Disk to a HA VM
- Blog: Configuring Pass-through Disks in Hyper-V
- Blog: The Deployment Guys
- 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
- Video: Hyper-V Server 2008 R2: Bare Metal to Live Migration (In about an hour!)
- 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
- Blog: Virtualization Visio Stencils
- New! Blog: If VM Role isn’t IaaS, where exactly, does it fit in?
- Training: Microsoft Virtual Academy
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- System Center Virtual Machine Manager
- Windows Virtual PC
- Cluster Team Site
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