It’s a wrap guys Hyper-V has officially RTM’d final version number is 18016 and it’s available to download right now from Microsoft links are bellow, this update will go live via Windows Update on July 8th.
Hoping to hear some comments from you
Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V RTM information
Press release on Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V RTM
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2008/jun08/06-26hyperv.mspx
John Howard’s blog post about Hyper-V RTM
http://blogs.technet.com/jhoward/archive/2008/06/26/hyper-v-rtm-announcement-available-today-from-the-microsoft-download-centre.aspx
Hyper-V RTM Guest Operating System Support Note (this link will not be live until the end of the day today)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/954958
Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V RTM download – Direct Links
Windows Server 2008 x64 Hyper-V Parent Partition RTM package
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=F3AB3D4B-63C8-4424-A738-BADED34D24ED
Windows Server 2008 x86 Hyper-V Management RTM package
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=6F69D661-5B91-4E5E-A6C0-210E629E1C42
Windows Vista SP1 x64 Hyper-V Management RTM package
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=88208468-0AD6-47DE-8580-085CBA42C0C2
Windows Vista SP1 x86 Hyper-V Management RTM package
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=BF909242-2125-4D06-A968-C8A3D75FF2AA
The MS ask the core team blog has 10 of the most asked questions during the duration of the hyper-v beta, you might want to head there and check those out, and those questions are:
1. You don’t have mouse functionality in your VM
2. Hyper-V wont install3. Import isn’t working within Hyper-V for your Virtual Server VMs
4. Hyper-V clustering
5. Snapshotting in Hyper-V
6. Virtual Networks
7. Using Hyper-V in Windows Server Core
8. Remote Management
9. Issues deploying virtual machines within a virtualized environment
10. One other virtualized hardware issue we have seen is SCSI boot
Hi all, I’ve been missing for quite some time busy with different topics. About a month ago I became VMWare VCP certified on VI3 and today I had the opportunity to take part in the beta test for the new 70-652 Microsoft certification focusing on Hyper-V, I must say it was a definetly a very interesting exam very complete in my opinion and the foundations that I learned with VMWare helped understand some of the topics the exam outline covered when I was studying for it.
Since I can’t share with you what was in the exam due to the NDA’s you accept when you undertake any type of technical certification I’m able to share with you the materials I used for studying for it all of them freely available from different blogs or technical resources provided by Microsoft.
In order to complement my reading I did several labs with Hyper-V in cluster scenarios, the scenarios I used for my lab where all using iSCSI storage my scenarios where based of on this 2 posts:
Aside from setting up a clustered enviroment I toyed around some with both System Center Virtual Machine Manager and System Center Operations Manager, I really did not have too much documentation or how to guides for these except for this:
Finally I reviewed some excellent on-demand webcasts Microsoft has available on Hyper-V and SCVMM, those are listed bellow:
Hope this links prove themselves useful to you when you are getting ready to understake your cert, good luck.
I’ll let you know if I passed when MS notifies me once the beta test results are out.