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I ran into a situation where I needed to cluster two Hyper-V guests. I found several articles that provided guidance around setting up shared storage for this, but none of them were completely accurate. I then stumbled across the below post, which worked perfectly. It’s definitely worth a read.

Hyper-V Guest Clustering Step-by-Step Guide

Microsoft recently released a KB that outlines the methods that you can use to upgrade a Windows Server 2008, that has the Hyper-V role installed, to Windows Server 2008 R2.

The following methods are discussed in the KB:

1. Perform an in-place upgrade of the parent partition from Windows Server 2008 to Windows Server 2008 R2.
2. Export a virtual machine from a Windows Server 2008-based computer that has Hyper-V enabled, and then import it to a server that has Windows Server 2008 R2 with Hyper-V enabled
3. Using backup software that leverages the Hyper-V VSS Writer, back up a virtual machine that is running on Windows Server 2008, and restore it to Windows Server 2008 R2

As you may have heard, Windows Server 2008 R2 introduces a number of important changes and new features for Hyper-V, so if you are planning to upgrade then you should be familiar with this KB. The KB can be found here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957256.

There’s no doubt that virtualization is hot these days. The following articles, posted on the Dirteam.com Blog, will answer virtually all (no pun intended) questions that you have when it comes to Active Directory in Hyper-V environments.

• Active Directory in Hyper-V environments, Part 1
• Active Directory in Hyper-V environments, Part 2
• Active Directory in Hyper-V environments, Part 3
• Active Directory in Hyper-V environments, Part 4
• Active Directory in Hyper-V environments, Part 5
• Active Directory in Hyper-V environments, Part 6