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Hyper-V Hits RTM

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The bits are golden.. There are some great discussions on the EDGE site around Hyper-V from all the product teams members including Mike Neil, John Howard, Ben Armstrong and Byron Surace.

Go take a look. The bits will be available at high Noon on July 8th.

Hyper-V hits RTM interview with Mike Neil

In this interview, we ask a number of questions to the guy who's in charge of server virtualization such as: Why we decided to get into the server virtualization environment? What changes have happened since previous RCs?  What challenges we've had along the way? Where do you see things headed moving forward? What challenges would an ITPro face with deploying hyper-v? Fun Features IT Pros can use right now with Hyper-V

Download the RTM of Hyper-V starting at NOON PST.  Existing customers who have deployed WS 2008 can receive Hyper-V from Windows update beginning July 8.

Hyper-V Part 1 - Architecture - Interview with PMs

John Howard, Ben Armstrong, Bryon Surace are program managers in the server virtualization team and give us the technical details on various components of the Hyper-V architecture.  In part 1 we cover:

  • Overview of the architecture
    • Where the virtual service provider (VSP) and virtual service client (VSC) fit in
    • What the VMBUS does
    • How a disk operation occurs through this architecture
  • [08:35] Comparison of fixed, dynamic, and differencing VHD disks

For more on architecture and the advantages Hyper-V has over 3rd party virtualization solutions, check out another Edge video with other program managers.

Hyper-V Part 2 - VM Snapshots - Interviews with PMs

John Howard, Ben Armstrong, Bryon Surace are program managers in the server virtualization team and give us the technical details on various components of Hyper-V.  In part 2 we cover:

  1. How virtual machine snapshots work under the covers
  2. How to properly export a specific VHD/snapshot in your chain
  3. Limitations with multiple branches of snapshots

Hyper-V Part 3 - TAP and VSS Snapshots - Interview with PMs

John Howard, Ben Armstrong, Bryon Surace are program managers in the server virtualization team and give us the technical details on various components of the Hyper-V architecture.  In part 3, we dive into the following components:

Hyper-V TAP program results

(02:28) Virtual machine snapshots and Volume Shadow copy Service snapshots (VSS)

  • Difference between the two
  • How VSS snapshots function
  • What happens with a backup for VSS and a non-VS aware operating system (i.e. Linux or Windows 2000 Server)

Hyper-V Part 4 - Disks and iSCSI - Interview with PMs

John Howard, Ben Armstrong, Bryon Surace are program managers in the server virtualization team and give us the technical details on various components of the Hyper-V architecture.  In part 4, we dive into the following components:

  • Determine when you would want to use a pass-through disk
  • How iSCSI works and how you can use it with Hyper-V
  • Learn some best practices in using iSCSI

To learn more about iSCSI, view our other iSCSI posts on Edge.

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