It’s time to focus on enterprise with an overview of Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V. In this session Yung Chou, IT Professional Evangelist, will look at how to create virtual machines in Hyper-V and demonstrate how the snapshot feature can easily revert the virtual machine to a previous state.

Duration: 42:26
[1:32 ] Windows Server Hyper-V fundamentals
[14:30 ] Planning Deployment of Virtualization Solutions
[25:33 ] Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V

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My host Machine is my Dell Precision 490 running Server 2008 R2 with Hyper-V.  I know my video isn’t that long, setting up NIC teaming is not that hard.  Please let me know if you have any questions.

Until next time,

Rob

• Increasing Agility with RDS and VDI (Overview)
• Increasing Agility with RDS
• Increasing Agility with VDI
• From the Datacenter to Client to Cloud
• Increase Availability
• Save Costs
• Simplifying Windows 7 Migration with Virtualization
• Dynamic Foundation, Datacenter End-to-End Management
• Virtualization Solutions for Business Critical Applications
• Partner Profitability

Want to increase uptime and service levels using Microsoft integrated virtualization solutions? Kenon Owens, Product Manager on the Microsoft Virtualization team, shows you how.

Other videos in the "From The Source" series:

• Increasing Agility with RDS and VDI (Overview)
• Increasing Agility with RDS
• Increasing Agility with VDI
• From the Datacenter to Client to Cloud
• Save Costs
• Enhance Agility
• Simplifying Windows 7 Migration with Virtualization
• Dynamic Foundation, Datacenter End-to-End Management
• Virtualization Solutions for Business Critical Applications
• Partner Profitability

Windows Server 2008 R2 and Hyper-V version 2.0 provide a powerful base upon which you can build a highly realistic, effective test bed for servers, clients, and networks. In this session, you’ll learn how to use the resources of a TechNet subscription, Windows Server 2008R2, Hyper-V, and a new, free sysinternals tool called Disk2vhd, to build the ultimate test or training environment.  We’ll show you how to import existing virtual machines and export virtual hard disks. You’ll see how to take point-in-time snapshots, and to build snapshot hierarchies that allow you to move both backward and forward to specific points in the time.  We’ll also demonstrate how to create a virtual machine from a running physical machine, and then import that VHD into Hyper-V.  By the end of this session, you’ll have a solid understanding of the tools and techniques currently available for building a great virtual environment in Hyper-V. 

Highlights include:

• TechNet subscription: What is it? How do I get one? What does it cost?
• Virtual Hard Disks: Format interoperability and disk types
• Working with virtual networks and network connections
• Connectivity with legacy network adapters and network adapters
• Using wireless interfaces
• Importing and exporting VHD files
• Effects of importing and exporting a VHD in Hyper-V
• How to take, apply and consolidate snapshots

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IT leaders are looking for ways to preserve our natural resouces, save money and provide uninterrupted, high-performing services to end users. In this video from Microsoft Israel, Regional Manager Ofer Daliot introduces the Deputy Manager for Architecture at Tel Aviv Municipality. Itaiel Maayan describes his migration to a virtualized environment for an array of Microsoft and business applications including SQL Server, Exchange, SharePoint, Active Directory and a project server. According to Itaiel, “This project is amazing… Everything worked perfectly.” There was no change or stop in operations, no need for user re-training and there were green impacts through reducing their needs for space, power and air conditioning. The project brought $2.1 M in savings with a 1 year return on investment.

This video is in English and is available in Hebrew here http://edge.technet.com/Media/Implementing-Virtualization-Cost-Savings-and-Green-IT/

To learn about best practices in deploying virtualization solutions, see the results from Microsoft IT’s internal experience here

http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/Case_Study_Detail.aspx?casestudyid=4000003941

IT leaders are looking for ways to preserve our natural resouces, save money and provide uninterrupted, high-performing services to end users. In this video from Microsoft Israel, Regional Manager Ofer Daliot introduces the Deputy Manager for Architecture at Tel Aviv Municipality. Itaiel Maayan describes his migration to a virtualized environment for an array of Microsoft and business applications including SQL Server, Exchange, SharePoint, Active Directory and a project server. According to Itaiel, in implementing virtualization, there was no change or stop in operations, no need for user re-training and there were green results through reducing their needs for space, power and air conditioning. The project brought $2.1 M in savings with a 1 year return on investment.

This video is in Hebrew and is available in English here http://edge.technet.com/Media/Implementing-Virtualization-for-Green-IT-and-Cost-Savings/

To learn about best practices in deploying virtualization solutions, see the results from Microsoft IT’s internal experience here

http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/Case_Study_Detail.aspx?casestudyid=4000003941

Neste vídeo entrevistamos a Gerente de Produto Elis Queiroz sobre o Windows Server 2008 R2. Em fase de lançamento, a Elis explica quais são as principais novidades que o produto traz. Dentre eles: Virtualização, Live Migration e Hyper-V são os principais assuntos.

Lessons learned in 5 years of implementing Microsoft’s virtualization platform and System Center Virtual Machine Manager, driving from 5 pilot Virtual Server 2005 hosts to 1100 virtualization hosts with 7000 Hyper-V guests. The changes in the computing hardware, storage solutions and Networking implementations. And what we envision for the next two years.

Speaker: Ian Eddy – Microsoft Corp

This is a can't miss session on how you can turn your virtualization infrastructure into a highly automated and dynamic application servicing machine!  Optimizations for performance, resourcing, and security will be discussed.  See how Performance and Resource Optimization (PRO) in System Center Virtual machine Manager 2008 R2 and System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 provides optimization of virtual machines.

Speakers:
Bryon Surace – Microsoft Corp

Arlindo Alves – Microsoft BeLux

Virtualization is becoming part of everyone's data center, driving down hardware and maintenance costs. But how do you maintain your virtualized infrastructure? Come and see how Windows PowerShell v2.0 and System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) help you with this challenging task. In this session we'll focus on the manageability story of Microsoft's server virtualization stack, exploring useful Windows PowerShell cmdlets and Hyper-V's WMI classes, putting new Windows PowerShell v2.0 features for remote adminstration to the test, building scripts to automate everyday tasks and introducing how to use SCVMM - again using Windows PowerShell - to keep track of your virtualization assets and automate various processes and (emergency) maintenance response tasks

Speaker: Bart De Smet – Microsoft Corp

Live migration is one key feature of Windows Server 2008 R2 which brings Microsoft's dynamic datacenter vision one step closer. With live migrations, customers can move VMs from a host Hyper-V server to another without any perceived downtime. Come spend a session understanding what live migration is and how it will help you; and walk through setting up a live migration demo environment from start to finish.Hyper-V - From Zero to Live Migration. How to Set Up a Live Migration

Speaker: Bryon Surace – Microsoft Corp