“Joachim Nässlander on Live Migration”

Joachim Nässlander, a Microsoft MVP, demonstrates how to set up a live migration cluster using Microsoft Hyper-V Server.

11/30/2009

19:05 minutes

Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2

http://edge.technet.com/Media/Joachim-Nsslander-on-Live-Migration/

“The PowerShell Configurator for R2 Core servers and Hyper-V Server”

Microsoft IT pro James O’Neil demonstrates the Psconfig.exe command-line tool.

11/25/2009

9:39 minutes

Server Core installations of Windows Server 2008 R2 and Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28q7WvzwvZY

“Hyper-V VM Import/Export with Soumya Das Bhaumik”

Soumya Das Bhaumik, a Hyper-V Program Manager, discusses virtual machine import/export tips.

11/16/2009

5:35 minutes

Hyper-V in Windows Server 2008 R2

http://www.microsoft.com/video/en/us/details/6e8115e8-b976-423c-9ce4-1af9de6c67c3

“How Do I: Back up Hyper-V with Windows Server Backup?”

Mark Wilson discusses backing up a Hyper-V deployment using the Windows Server Backup feature in Windows Server 2008.

11/30/2009

11:29 minutes

Hyper-V in Windows Server 2008 R2

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsserver/dd775213.aspx

“Virtual Machine Migration Test Wizard”

Dinesh Govindasamy, a Hyper-V Software Development Engineer in Test, explains and demonstrates the Virtual Machine Migration Test Wizard for Hyper-V virtual machine migrations. This wizard enables you to proactively test virtualization servers and potential virtualization servers across your environment for processor incompatibilities that might cause virtual machine migration to fail.

10/27/2009

7:24 minutes

Hyper-V in Windows Server 2008 R2

http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?mkt=en-US&vid=487bbef4-6ab7-4121-91de-c87613014bbb

“Jim DuBois on Virtualization”

Jim DuBois, a General Manager at Microsoft IT, talks about the challenges and triumphs of rolling out virtualization for internal and external customers.

10/15/2009

3:48 minutes

Hyper-V in Windows Server 2008 R2

http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?mkt=en-US&vid=5aeed477-0be9-4a5d-bb59-cf6e3e65253c

“Live Migration Networks”

Giovanni Marchetti shows how networks are used when live migration is configured with cluster shared volumes. He also shows which parameters you can configure to control traffic.

10/15/2009

12:13 minutes

Hyper-V in Windows Server 2008 R2

http://edge.technet.com/Media/Live-Migration-Networks/

“Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 Bare Metal to Live Migration in about an hour!”

Matt McSpirit, Partner Technology Specialist at Microsoft UK, walks through a bare-metal installation of Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 (RC) on two physical nodes, hooks them up to an iSCSI storage area network (SAN), and configures the SAN storage. Then, from a laptop running Windows 7 (RC), he validates and builds a cluster for Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 (RC).

8/27/2009

48.34 minutes

Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2

http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?mkt=en-US&vid=7edd630a-2c48-4002-b3b6-41f9ec5671a0

“Hypervisor is not running error: How to fix”

Felipe Ayora, a technical writer on the Windows Server User Assistance team, demonstrates how to change the BIOS settings on your computer to make the hypervisor run.

8/25/2008

6 minutes

Hyper-V in Windows Server 2008 R2

http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?mkt=en-US&vid=25d07f2e-b2e0-4c0c-b456-79b08bfe58be

“Ben Armstrong on Hyper-V Snapshot Common Issues”

Ben Armstrong, a program manager for Hyper-V who is also known as "The Virtual PC Guy", discusses common issues that customers encounter with Hyper-V snapshots and provides best practices for avoiding them.

Also, see Hyper-V Virtual Machine Snapshots: FAQ (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=168819).

8/18/2009

12 minutes

Hyper-V in Windows Server 2008 R2

http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?mkt=en-US&vid=c47aee4d-b89a-47b5-8c38-3a1d6e1997cf

“Hyper-V Architecture Demonstration Video”

Ben Armstrong explains the architecture of Hyper-V in this short animated video.(more)

7/13/2009

4 minutes

Hyper-V in Windows Server 2008

http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?mkt=en-US&vid=3c31b7d8-7502-4505-84ab-9999717d8692

“Hyper-V and NetApp Storage – Overview”

In the first of this four-part series, Matt McSpirit is joined by Steve Winfield and Pete Mason from NetApp to discuss some of the NetApp storage technologies that add value to a Hyper-V infrastructure.

6/16/2009

42 minutes

Hyper-V in Windows Server 2008 R2

http://edge.technet.com/Media/1-Hyper-V--NetApp-Storage-Overview/#Page=1

“Hyper-V and NetApp Storage - Demo Part I: Storage Configuration”

In the second of this four-part series, Matt McSpirit sets up and configures NetApp storage for Hyper-V. He installs and configures the system by using NetApp System Manager and creates volumes and LUNs.

6/24/2009

16 minutes

Hyper-V in Windows Server 2008 R2

http://edge.technet.com/Media/2-Hyper-V--NetApp-Storage-Demo-Part-I-Storage-Config/

“Hyper-V and NetApp Storage - Demo Part II: Cluster Building”

In the third video of this four-part series, Matt McSpirit validates and builds a cluster for Hyper-V by using NetApp storage. He also creates a few highly available virtual machines to run on the cluster.

6/16/2009

14 minutes

Hyper-V in Windows Server 2008 R2

http://edge.technet.com/Media/3-Hyper-V--NetApp-Storage-Demo-Part-II-Cluster-Building/

“Hyper-V and NetApp Storage - Demo Part III: Optimising Storage”

In the final part of this four-part series, Matt McSpirit shows key capabilities of the NetApp storage server. He shows how using Thin Provisioning and Deduplication can save space. He also takes a look at snapshots.

6/16/2009

20 minutes

Hyper-V in Windows Server 2008 R2

http://edge.technet.com/Media/4-Hyper-V--NetApp-Storage-Demo-Part-III-Optimising-Storage/

“Windows 7 VHD Boot Demonstration”

This command-line demonstration explains how to build a bootable Windows 7 virtual hard disk (VHD) image from an Install.wim file using Diskpart.exe and Imagex.exe.

5/1/09

22 minutes

Hyper-V in Windows Server 2008 R2

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/dd758779.aspx

“Hyper-V R2: Making Highly Available VMs”

Matt McSpirit demonstrates how to create two highly available virtual machines using the Hyper-V tools that are available from within the Failover Cluster Manager snap-in for Windows Server 2008 R2. The first is a regular VHD-based virtual machine with a VHD residing on its own LUN on the SAN. The second virtual machine uses a physical disk that is directly attached to a virtual machine, which reads and writes to a raw LUN on the SAN.

5/22/2009

17 minutes

Hyper-V in Windows Server 2008 R2

http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?mkt=en-US&vid=1a414155-3655-4eae-b52f-a5e927050c7e