Great Wiki Article–“Hyper-V: Gotchas”
Recently there has been a lot of Hyper-V activity on the TechNet Wiki. One article that I think is particularly useful is the “Hyper-V: Gotchas” article:
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/365.aspx
This article currently has over 70 revisions and over a dozen contributors, and it lists the most common problems encountered and mistakes made by people who are new to Hyper-V. I would strongly recommend that anyone who is starting out with Hyper-V spend some time reading this article in detail.
And if you are an “old hand” at Hyper-V – check it out, and if you see something missing, add it!
Cheers,
Ben
Comments
Anonymous
August 23, 2011
I have two separate installations with this same problem - It seems that when I create a virtual Exchange Server installation with two separate (VHD) drives attached the virtual machine slows down to a crawl, takes about 10 minutes to boot, and another 10 minutes before it enables the network card and begins serving clients. In both cases I am using Hyper-V R2 on Dell servers. RAM and CPU is not a limitation. I have tried with a shared NIC, a dedicated NIC and a team NIC. In both cases I am using a NetApp SAN on the back end with both VHDs on the same LUN. The NetApp gets a performance/drive usage boost when you create an aggregate with all drives and biuld your LUNs on that aggregate. The Guest OS/ Exchange combo is 2008 with all patches and Exchange 2007 with all SPs. The other install is using server 2008 R2 with Exchange 2010. Anyone seen this before?Anonymous
August 23, 2011
Go TechNet Wiki Go!