Bumper list of Hyper-V articles, whitepapers, and videos

April 9, 2009

You have everything you always wanted to know about Hyper-V

Here I have just compiled a complete list of most important Virtualization / Hyper-V related content from Microsoft updated till date. But before you would move ahead evaluating them, you may want to download the following:-

Description	Date	Type	Skill
Top 10 Virtualization Myths	10/14/2008	Whitepaper	100
Top 10 Virtualization Myths	10/14/2008	Video/Webcast	100
Hyper-V Overview	10/14/2008	Video/Webcast	100
App-V in the Real World	10/14/2008	Video/Webcast	100
Why use App-V	10/14/2008	Video/Webcast	100
SCVMM 2008 Whitepaper	5/23/2008	Whitepaper	100
Solution Accelerator for Vista, WS 2008 and Hyper-V	2/19/2008	PPT	100
Getting Access to Product Bits – ServerOS	10/7/2007	Other	100
Microsoft Virtualization E-Book	3/9/2009	Whitepaper	200
Top 10 IT Pro Tasks Made Easier by Windows Server 2008 R2	1/21/2009	Whitepaper	200
Windows Server 2008 R2 Reviewers Guide (Beta)	1/21/2009	Whitepaper	200
Top 10 Reasons to Upgrade to Windows Server 2008 R2	1/21/2009	Whitepaper	200
WS08 R2 Overview	1/21/2009	PPT	200
Windows Server 2008: 10 reasons to upgrade	10/30/2008	Video/Webcast	200
Introduction to SCVMM 2008	10/14/2008	Whitepaper	200
Hyper-V Architecture Overview	10/14/2008	Video/Webcast	200
Using Powershell with Hyper-V	10/14/2008	Video/Webcast	200
Virtualization Launch Recordings	10/14/2008	Other	200
Virtualization Team Blog	10/14/2008	Other	200
Virtualization TechCenter	10/14/2008	Other	200
App-V TechCenter	10/14/2008	Other	200
SCVMM TechCenter	10/14/2008	Other	200
Virtualization for Windows: A Technology Overview	7/23/2008	Whitepaper	200
Step by Step Guide for Getting Started with Hyper-V	7/23/2008	Whitepaper	200
Hyper-V IT Pro Deck	7/23/2008	PPT	200
Extending TS and Hyper-V VDI in WS08 R2	4/7/2009	PPT	300
SQL2008 on Hyper-V	2/23/2009	Whitepaper	300
Offline VM servicing tool	2/23/2009	Other	300
Live Migration Demo Setup Guide	2/11/2009	Whitepaper	300
Live Migration Overview and Architecture Guidance	2/11/2009	Whitepaper	300
Step-by-Step Guide to Setting up Live Migration on R2	2/11/2009	Whitepaper	300
Step-by-Step Guide to Hyper-V and Fail-Over Clusters	2/11/2009	Whitepaper	300
20-Part Webcast Series on Microsoft Virtualization Solutions	1/30/2009	Other	300
Microsoft Assessment and Planning Kit	10/14/2008	Other	300
Infrastructure Planning and Design	10/14/2008	Whitepaper	300
Hyper-V Getting Started Guide	10/14/2008	Whitepaper	300
Hyper-V Deployment Guide	10/14/2008	Whitepaper	300
App-V Deployment Guide	10/14/2008	Whitepaper	300
Hyper-V Fail-Over Clustering	10/14/2008	Whitepaper	300
Clustering Hyper-V	10/14/2008	Video/Webcast	300
Disk Access in Hyper-V	10/14/2008	Video/Webcast	300
Operations guide for App-V	10/14/2008	Whitepaper	300
Hyper-V and Bitlocker	10/14/2008	Whitepaper	300
SCVMM Technical Library	10/14/2008	Other	300
Using PS and SCVMM to deploy Server 2008	10/14/2008	Video/Webcast	300
Using PS for SCVMM	10/14/2008	Video/Webcast	300
Virtualization Architecture and Scenarios with Demos	7/23/2008	PPT	300
Planning_and_Architecture_for_deploying_Hyper-V_and_VMM	7/23/2008	PPT	300
Deploying_and_Managing_Hyper-V_with_System_Center_Virtual_Machine_Manager	7/23/2008	PPT	300
Heterogeneous Virtualization Management – Virtualization Day	7/23/2008	PPT	300
Hyper-V Security Best Practices	7/23/2008	PPT	300
High Availability and Virtualization	7/23/2008	PPT	300
Using System Center Virtual Machine Manager in a Dev and Test Environment	7/23/2008	PPT	300
PowerShell and Management Automation	7/23/2008	PPT	300
Infrastructure Planning and Design Guides	7/23/2008	Whitepaper	300
Infrastructure Planning and Design Series	7/23/2008	Whitepaper	300

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More Articles and Whitepapers updates are available here

Here are some must download High resolution videos from TechNet Edge.

Join Partner Technology Specialist, Matt McSpirit, on this multi-part virtualization series where he discusses the topic in depth showing demos and scenarios that customers go through. Whether you are a small IT shop learning about virtualization or a company designing a datacenter, watch these short videos to get you up to speed on what Hyper-V can do for you.

Hyper-V Live Migration

This series of short webcasts explains how to set up live migration of virtual machines with Windows Server 2008 R2. It is meant as a simple experiment that you can reproduce with 3 machines to familiarize yourselves with the technology. The 6th and last part discusses the difference between live and quick migration, showing both in action.
Useful Links:
- Frank Cicalese’s (virtualization specialist) paper on r2 lab setup
- Technet step-by-step guide to live migration
- Technet guide to hyper-v fail-over
- Massimo Re Ferre` (IBM) tutorial on Hyper-V Server R2

High Res Video downloads:-

Live Migration – Part 1
Live Migration – Part 2
Live Migration – Part 3
Live Migration – Part 4
Live Migration – Part 5
Live Migration – Part 6

Redhat on Hyper-V

SQL Server Virtualization

Screencast: Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008

Virtualized Desktops with Citrix and Microsoft

If these videos excited you, you may get more updates from TechNet Edge or Microsoft Videos

More update on Microsoft Virtualization available on: Microsoft Virtualization website

20 part webcast series on Microsoft Virtualization solutions:

The team of IT Pro Evangelists at Microsoft including: Kevin Remde, Matt Hester, Chris Avis, Chris Henley, and Yung Chou have delivered a 20-part webcast series on Microsoft Virtualization Solutions. The objectives of this series are not only to help you develop technical depth on various Microsoft virtualization solutions with level 300 sessions, but to appreciate the essentials of a typical virtualization project in a real world implementation.

Session List: