Hyper-V through videos

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Interview with Mike Neil about Hyper-V RTM, including:

  • Why Microsoft decided to get into the server virtualization environment.
  • Changes between the various release candidates and RTM.
  • Challenges encountered along the way.
  • Where Hyper-V is heading.
  • IT Pro challenges for deploying Hyper-V.

Architectural overview:

  • Virtual service provider (VSP) virtual service client (VSC) and VMBus.
  • Disk operations within the Hyper-V architecture.
  • Comparison of fixed, dynamic, and differencing VHD disks.

Snapshots:

  • How virtual machine snapshots work.
  • How to properly export a specific VHD/snapshot.
  • Limitations with multiple branches of snapshots.

Backing up Hyper-V virtual machines:

  • Virtual machine snapshots and Volume Shadow copy Service snapshots (VSS).
  • How VSS snapshots function.
  • What happens with a backup for VSS and a non-VS aware operating system (e.g. Linux or Windows 2000 Server).

Disks and iSCSI:

  • Determine when to use a pass-through disk.
  • How iSCSI works and how to use it with Hyper-V.
  • Learn some best practices for using iSCSI.

High availability:

  • Guest operating system clustering.
  • Virtualization platform clustering.

Eat your own dogfood - using Hyper-V at Microsoft IT

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