I booked myself the MCTS exam 70-652 for Windows 2008 virtualisation configuration and have been looking around for some decent training material. There’s some good stuff on Microsoft’s website which is free and can be found here. Some other e-learning that’s not to expensive but nothing beats actually using the software and playing with it to understand what’s going on.
So I built myself a Windows Hyper-V Server (The bare metal version) and then went looking for the Management Console add-in. Now you think it would be quite easy to find, I followed the link in the getting started guide for it and it lead me back to downloading Hyper-V Server. After about 10 minutes of searching and a number of broken links from various Microsoft blogs I eventually found what I was looking for. You can download it from the link below, I hope that saved someone else 10 minutes of their life.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/952627
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Microsoft have announced the release of their free bare metal hypervisor called “Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008″. I thought they might have marketed it with a different name as I can see some confusion arising there.
On first look at the features table it looks a little limited but to be honest it’s no more so than ESX 3i is on it’s own, Hoping to get a look at this sometime today at which point I should be in a better position to comment.
It’s available for download at the following location
http://www.microsoft.com/servers/hyper-v-server/default.mspx
To compliment the flurry of release activity at Microsoft they have announced their virtualisation exams which you can find out about at the following address.
http://www.microsoft.com/learning/virtualization/default.mspx
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