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Well as many others i have been playing around with Hyper-V in the new Windows Server 2008 R2. And i must admit though it still requires for us to spend some time looking at clustering and such which most of us Virtualization people and Terminal Services people might not have too much experience, it seems Hyper-V 2.0 is actually a real competitor to Citrix XenServer and VMware vSphere 4 in simple environments. At the very least something everyone should test and consider.

To get started with Hyper-V 2.0 i started browsing the worldwide inter-web. And came across a great set of videos at Technet Edge. And on this site i found a series of videos by ‘Virtual Boy’ i guess also known as Matt McSpirit

Matt has published a whole bunch of videos on setting  up Hyper-V, Cluster Shared storage and all the other needed disciplines.

Some of the topics available:

Hyper-V Server 2008 R2: Bare M… Migration (In about an hour!)

Hyper-V R2: Building a Hyper-V R2 Cluster

Hyper-V R2: Making Highly Available VMs

Hyper-V R2: Introducing Cluster Shared Volumes

To see the entire list of Virtual Boy videos check here: http://edge.technet.com/Tags/Virtualboy/

This site for me was a great way to get a quick overview of changed with R2 and best practice for configuration.

Rene Vester