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I’ve posted quite a bit of information about Hyper-V on this blog – including the Hyper-V presentation I gave at Microsoft UK in April 2008 but TechNet Edge has some videos from the Windows Server Virtualization product team that go into a lot of the detail – and where better to learn about this than from the guys who created the product?
Interview with Mike Neil (Microsoft General Manager, Virtualization) 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.
- 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.
- 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).
- 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.
- Guest operating system clustering.
- Virtualization platform clustering.