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Thursday, 17 July 2008
by Michel Roth
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Now that Hyper-V is generally available the information tsunami that you would expect from a release like this has occurred. Now that the wave has receded, this article is intended to gather all of this information into one article.
Hyper-V Maximum Supported Configurations
When you’re planning a virtualization infrastructure with Hyper-V,
please be sure to stay within the supported limits below. In addition,
the limits discussed in this document are highly dependent on the
underlying hardware server configuration.
Guest operating systems that are supported on a Hyper-V virtual machine host
This article lists the server and client guest operating systems that
are supported on a Hyper-V virtual machine host that is running on a
Windows Server 2008-based computer.
How To install Hyper-V RTM on Server Core
How to install a freshly created Server Core installation with
Hyper-V RTM in six easy to follow steps on your Server Core console.
Hyper-V Performance FAQ
Answers the follwing questions:
- What is the recommend configuration for performance testing?
- How do I monitor performance?
- Should I use passthrough or iSCSI attached to the guest for storage?
- Is there a simple way to disable the hypervisor to run some baseline tests on the native system.
- Is there any common terminology used to talk about virtual machine configurations?
- Are there any services that should be stopped?
- Is it ok run applications / processes in the root OS?
- Are there additional knobs for performance nuts?
- Are their addition resources that are useful for understanding Hyper-V?
Hyper-V: Some quick facts
Discussion of the Hyper-V fundamentals including some nice resource like:
- Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Overview from TechDays 2008: video - presentation - Edwin Yuen (Senior Program Manager Virtualisation & Virtual Machine Manager) -
- “Under the Hood” of System Center Virtual Machine Manager from TechDays 2008: video - presentation - Edwin Yuen (Senior Program Manager Virtualisation & Virtual Machine Manager) -
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