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The Microsoft® Windows Server® 2008 OS with Hyper-V™ technology offers advanced server virtualization that enables the OS to act as a parent or host partition for child partitions and virtual machines. Windows Server 2008 included a release candidate version of Hyper-V. In June, 2008 Microsoft issued an update, which raised Hyper-V to a final or released version. This page provides resources for Hyper-V.

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Microsoft Virtualization Team Blog	W2K8 Dell TechCenter Wiki
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Hyper-V Management	Early Performance Testing with Hyper-V Beta and RC
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Performance of Hyper-V VMs Chat 9-02-08 Transcript	Dell Solutions Guide for Hyper-V (September, 2008)

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Hyper-V Server on DellTechCenter - A page with details about how to install and configure the FREE Hyper-V Server 2008

Windows Server 2008 and Hyper-V Installation

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 includes Hyper-V as a role that can be installed. It requires that either Intel VT or AMD-V hardware virtualization be enabled on the processor by selecting to enable hardware virtualization in the BIOS. The installation also requires a reboot.

The server must first be installed with Windows Server 2008. After the OS is installed the Hyper-V role is installed through the Add Roles wizard from Server Manager. Note that Hyper-V as shipped with Windows Server 2008 is not the final released version.

Windows Server Virtualization - Hyper-V - The Dell TechCenter

Windows Server Virtualization - Hyper-V - The Dell TechCenter

To update Hyper-V to the final-release version, downloaded this update from Microsoft and apply it. A reboot is required after installing this patch.

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Mike_Hester

Backup Solutions (disk to tape) for Server 2008 with Hyper-V

May 2 2010, 5:48 AM EDT by idreesijk

Thread started: Dec 3 2008, 3:01 PM EST Watch

Hi:

Does anyone have recommendations for backup software to use to write backups directly to tape on a system running Server 2008 with multiple Hyper-V VMs? I am testing CA ArcServe r12 now, but it seems rather sluggish. However, this sluggishness may be due to the test NIC setup I am running (a NIC team, with ArcServe installed on the parent partition so it can see the SCSI tape drive). Has anyone tried BackupExec or another product that can manage the tape side of the backup equation?

Also, for any backup program – is installing it on the Server 2008 parent session the best approach? Other than running Hyper-V, the parent session in my setup will not do anything else.

Sincerely,
Mike (Of the Many Questions But Few Answers)

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RE: Backup Solutions (disk to tape) for Server 2008 with Hyper-V
By: idreesijk, May 2 2010, 5:48 AM EDT

TL 4000 with iscsi to sas bridge redundancy.

Hi, I have R610 server with 2 nics connected to 2 dell powerconnect swicth 6248(One nic to each swicth). I have TL 4000 with 2 iscsi to sas bridge installed. Each bridge has 2 ports, so I totally have 4 ports for the tape library and 4 drives . There were 2 Y- cable shipped with the library. which I connect to 2 iscsi bridge & 4 tape drives . the 4 iscsi ports of the bridge are connected to the dell swicth in redundancy. that is iscsi(1) p1- sw1, iscsi(1) p2-sw2, iscsi (2) p1- sw1 & iscsi(2) p2 -sw2.
My server has windows 2008 r2 which has inbulit initiator. so I added iscsi(1) -p1 & iscsi(2)-p2 Ip address to the target. To my server I assigned 2 IP address in the same subnet as tape drive . I installed the lastest firmware for iscsi bridge and the tape drive. I did not enable multipathing.

my questions are :
1. Is my connections coect?
2. I have only 4 drives showing in deice manager. if I enable multipathing , i will have 8 drives shown in device manager, so is it good to have multipathing?
3. among the 8 drives in device manager, how will I know whoch drive is assigned to whcih, though I have only 4 drives in my Tape library?
4. Understand there is a backup running and if in case one of my iscsi bride fails, will the backup stops? or will it switch over to other drive and the backup will continue ?
5. I went through the document by dell for configuration, but it is given obly for TL2000 with 2 drives and not 4 drives, in that document it's mentioned that " ADD session", however in my case I cannot addsession unless I enable mutipath. so should I enable multipath?

Thanks and regards
Idrees Ahmed

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khsieh

Recommendations for NICs on Dell Servers for Hyper-V R2 clusters

Aug 27 2009, 1:09 PM EDT by andreaserson

Thread started: Aug 24 2009, 5:39 PM EDT Watch

Hello, I am looking for advice on how to provision the networkking interfaces for new and existing Dell servers for Hyper-V R2 clusters. First let me describe what I have.

I have a mixture of 5 PE1950, 1950III and 2950III servers running L5148, L5335 and L5420 Xeon processors. I have the two Broadcom BCM5708C LOMs and an additional 1-2 Intel PRO/1000 PT dual server adapters per server, for a total of 4-6 available NICs. I have Dell EqualLogic storage on the back end. My goal is to use Windows 2008 R2 or Hyper-V Server R2 to setup 2-4 way clusters for my datacenters. I will be buying 1-2 R710 servers to complement my existing hardware. It looks like I will need to bump all of my servers to at least 6 NICs, but should I go Broadcom or Intel? I don't use any of the TOE or ISCSI licenses for my Broadcom NICs, mostly because of problems I had under Windows 2003. Should I care about TOE, iSCSI offload, VMQ or chimney? My VMs tend to be realtively light on CPU, disk I/O and network I/O. My Exchange 2003 server (running under Virtual server 2005) has the biggest CPU load. I also use the Microsoft iSCSI initiator from with the guest for my SQL, Exchange, and file servers to take advantange of integration with the EqualLogic for snapshots in the backup process.

I would also like to know if the the Intel and Broadcom NICs make a difference for my guests and Live Migration. Can I Live Migrate without worrying about the NICs?

Thanks for your feedback. I know that R2 is really new.

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Mike_Hester

NIC Setup when Running Server 2008 and Hyper-V on a PE2950

Dec 3 2008, 2:42 PM EST by Mike_Hester

Thread started: Dec 3 2008, 2:42 PM EST Watch

Hi:

I was wondering if anyone has installed Server 2008 and Hyper-V on a PowerEdge 2950 with Dual Broadcom NICs and a DRAC (or on a similar setup). I will be using this setup and have found several NIC configurations that work, but I was wondering if anyone had specific instructions on configuring the NICs for optimal performance. First let me warn you – my talents, if any, are not in the realm of DNS or NIC setup and optimization, so any help would be appreciated.

For example, questions I have at this point include:

1. Should I put both hardware NICs into the initial Hyper-V VLAN built during the Hyper-V install, or should I only put one hardware NIC in this initial VLAN? Or, should I have two Hyper-V VLANs and put one hardware NIC in each?

2. I got NIC teaming to work by building the team in the parent Server 2008 session after I had Hyper-V installed and several VMs created, but performance leaves something to be desired (and I have seen some odd DNS issues) - has anyone had any success with NIC teaming?

3. Setting static IPs for my VMs is simple enough, even for me, but what type of IPs work best for the hardware NICs (or the NIC Team, if applicable) at the parent session level? If I leave both NICs in the parent session DHCP, DNS shows two entries for the parent server – is this an issue? Should I set one, or both, two static IPs? If I set both to static IPs, will this cause issues in DNS? Finally, if NIC teaming can be used, should I use a static or DHCP IP for the team?

Finally, on my current test setup with NIC teaming active using a static IP for the team, my DRAC is suddenly inaccessible over the network. I can PING it successfully, but I cannot browse to it anymore. Has anyone gotten a DRAC to work when NIC teaming is setup under Server 2008?

Sincerely,
Mike

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