Hyper-V

Meet Ryan Weldon, Dell Virtualization Solutions Engineering Hyper-V lead.  He is helping Dell simplify IT with best practice for Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V in Dell’s solution stack. He has put together a wiki page at the Dell TechCenter on a Hyper-V R2 lab configuration describing networking best practice recommendations for a Hyper-V R2 environment built on Dell. 

The design best practices are based on:

• Redundant hardware to eliminate a single point of failure
• Load balancing and failover for iSCSI and virtual machine traffic
• Redundant paths for cluster, Cluster Shared Volume (CSV), and Live Migration traffic
• Separation of traffic type for security and availability
• Ease of use and implementation

Ryan has also provided a script that takes any adapter that begins with the name "Local Area Connection" and renames them to their MAC addresses. Let us know what you think and what you are doing with Dell and Microsoft Windows 2008 R2 Hyper-V. 

Microsoft Hyper-V R2 introduces many new features that end users can take advantage of to improve their data center efficiency. One of the more interesting features of Hyper-V R2 is Live Migration. Live Migration provides the ability to move a virtual machine from one node in a Windows Server 2008 R2 Failover Cluster to another node without any perceived interruption in service by the applications running on or the clients connected to the virtual machine.

Ryan Weldon, an engineer from the Dell Virtualization Solutions Engineering team, has put together a FAQ page on Microsoft Hyper-V R2 Live Migration. He will also join the Dell TechCenter for a chat on the Microsoft Hyper-V R2 features at 3PM CST.

Join the Dell TechCenter for a web chat on Microsoft Hyper-V R2 features on July 21 at 3PM CST. The TechCenter will be joined by PG engineers from the Virtualization Solutions Engineering team and the OS Engineering team.