So You Want to Get Started with Hyper-V? Start here! What’s New in R2 -- Part 1

I’ve upgraded to the Release Candidate of Windows Server 2008 R2 and I wanted to share a little bit of what I learned.  My intent was to do two R2 sessions, one to show you everything but Live Migration and the second one to show Live Migration.  As I was working through all the new features, I found that I need to provide three sessions.  Two showing you everything but Live Migration and the third session will focus on Live Migration. 

I’ve created a number of these recordings from our Microsoft Technology Centers (MTC’s) around the country.  I’ve been traveling around the country talking about Hyper-V, so while I’ve had access to these cool servers, I wanted to get some recordings and share.  So far I’ve been to our MTC’s in Atlanta, GA, Chicago, IL, and these recordings were taken this week in our Irvine, CA MTC.  Next week I’m off to New York city to complete my final of four MTC presentations.  If you haven’t checked out our MTCs before, check them out at Microsoft MTC.  Now on to the video!

 

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As I mentioned in my screen cast, I’ve included the URL that gives you all of the improvements in Windows Server 2008 R2.  My screen cast just covered the Hyper-V updates.

 

Introduction to Windows Server 2008 R2

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/R2.aspx

 

This session is one part of a whole series of screen casts around Hyper-V, you can go this link to access the whole series.

So you want to get started with Hyper-V? Start here! – In Summary

 

Until next time!

Rob

Published Wednesday, June 17, 2009 10:53 PM by rwagg

Comments

Friday, June 19, 2009 3:08 PM by Derek Mangrum

# re: So You Want to Get Started with Hyper-V? Start here! What’s New in R2 -- Part 1

Thank you for the great screencasts. I have watched, and enjoyed, others as well. But, I have a question that, I think, addresses a common situation.

I currently have two Hyper-V boxes, each hosting multiple VMs. These are production systems. I am very interested in implementing these new features found in R2. I really want to cluster these machines and benefit from this tech. But, I don't want to have to wipe and reload.

Can you 'slip' clustering under an existing implementation? Can I cluster two machines that currently have workloads and then migrate my existing VMs into the HA environment? What might that look like? What steps would be involved.

Again, thanks for the great info!

Friday, June 19, 2009 5:47 PM by rwagg

# re: So You Want to Get Started with Hyper-V? Start here! What’s New in R2 -- Part 1

I liked your question so much that I created its own blog entry.  I hope this helps.

ts2blogs.com/.../hyper-v-how-do-i-leverage-what-you-ve-talked-about.aspx

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