I found some more Hyper-V docs to read as well as some webcasts. Enjoy!! How Microsoft Designs the Virtualization Host and Network Infrastructure – http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc974012.aspx Best Practices for Deploying Virtual Machines by Using Hyper-V Virtualization Technology http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd578346.aspx
Category: Virtualization
Download the Hyper-V Security Guide
The Hyper-V security guide has just been released. You can download it here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd569113.aspx About This Solution Accelerator The Hyper-V Security Guide provides IT professionals with guidance, instructions, and recommendations to address key security concerns about server virtualization. Microsoft Hyper-V technology allows consolidation of workloads that are currently spread across multiple underutilized servers onto a …
MSDN and Technet are running on 2008 Hyper-V technology!!
Interesting article on virtualization.info regarding MSDN and Technet being hosted on Hyper-V virtual servers. The SQL backend however is still being hosted on physical servers. Technet received about 1 million hits per day, and MSDN about 3 million so obviously MS think that Hyper-V can handle the load 🙂 More info can be found …
Virtual Server Update
Microsoft have released an update for Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1. The update has additional Guest operating systems Additonal Guest Operating System support: Windows Vista® Ultimate Edition with Service Pack 1 (SP1) Windows Vista® Business Edition with Service Pack 1 (SP1) Windows Vista® Enterprise Edition with Service Pack 1 (SP1) Windows Server® 2008 CoreWindows …
Installing Hyper-V
I’ve now got my extra memory so I have been in a position to install Windows Server 2008. Previously I have just been running Vista 32-Bit edition with 4GB of RAM installed. I tried the 64-Bit edition so I could add more RAM to get past the 4GB memory limit but unfortunately my daughters Sims …