Hyper-V 3.0 web resources

http://marckean.wordpress.com/2012/09/26/windows-server-2012-hyper-v-server-command-line-configuration-2/

http://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2012/07/windows-server-2012-hyper-v-converged-fabric/

http://www.hyper-v.nu/archives/marcve/2013/01/lbfo-hyper-v-switch-qos-and-actual-performance-part-1/

http://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/download/details.aspx?id=30160

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/jj248719.aspx

http://blogs.technet.com/b/kevinholman/archive/2013/01/16/scvmm-2012-sp1-quickstart-deployment-guide.aspx

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/12038.vmm-2012-sp1-installing-and-configuring-dell-equallogic-ps-series-smp-provider.aspx

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/13131.hyperv3-failover-cluster.aspx

http://support.microsoft.com/hotfix/KBHotfix.aspx?kbnum=2796995&kbln=en-us

http://seanmcrawford.com/scvmm-installing-and-configure-dell-equallogic-arrays-with-smp/

http://blog.marcosnogueira.org/2013/03/01/configuring-and-managing-hyper-v-replica/

http://blogs.technet.com/b/yungchou/archive/2013/01/10/hyper-v-replica-explained.aspx

http://blogs.technet.com/b/virtualization/archive/2012/03/27/why-is-the-quot-hyper-v-replica-broker-quot-required.aspx

http://blogs.technet.com/b/askpfeplat/archive/2012/12/10/why-adding-hyper-v-replica-connection-broker-fails-in-failover-cluster-manager.aspx

http://technet.microsoft.com/library/ee941130(v=ws.10)

http://mikaeljensen.dk/blog/?p=1417

http://blogs.technet.com/b/askpfeplat/archive/2013/03/10/windows-server-2012-hyper-v-best-practices-in-easy-checklist-form.aspx

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/virtualmachinemgrclustering/thread/43d54b9f-9221-4646-9926-913750c96a8e/

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/dpmhypervbackup/thread/604409df-ada1-47d1-bdfb-3f938cde0b59/

Hyper-V 2.0 but still useful
http://www.slideshare.net/Amit.Gatenyo/hyper-v-bestpractices-tipsandtricks-12756893

Hyper-V 3.0 ReFS

I thought I would be clever and try out the new ReFS file system in Windows 2012. Did some reading and it sounds great. I also used Google to search for resources about using ReFS volumes in Hyper-V clusters, but little was found.

Lesson learn't...as always with M$ all the glistens isn't gold :( 

Hyper-V 3.0 hotfixes

When installing Hyper-v clusters in either Windows 2008r2 SP1 or Windows 2012, it's really important to keep up to date with all the hotfixes. Oddly enough you would think that Windows update would do this. But that's not always the case.

Here is a list of hotfixes from the Cluster team.

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/15577.list-of-failover-cluster-hotfixes-for-windows-server-2012.aspx
http://blogs.technet.com/b/yongrhee/archive/2011/05/22/list-of-failover-cluster-windows-server-2008-r2-sp1-hotfixes.aspx

Here is a list of hotfixes from the Hyper-V team.

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/15576.hyper-v-update-list-for-windows-server-2012.aspx

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/20885.hyper-v-update-list-for-windows-server-2012-r2.aspx

To see if you have a hotfix installed or not you can use this command. In this example I am searching for a hotfixed numbered 2813630 & 2796995

wmic qfe list full | find "2813630"
wmic qfe list full | find "2796995" - ODX hotfix
wmic qfe list full | find "2919355" - Windows 2012 R2 Update


If the return result is blank you don't have it installed.

To list all the hotfixes installed on the system use that command:

wmic qfe list full | find "KB"

How to move a Hyper-V virtual machine without Exporting it first

http://blogs.technet.com/b/meamcs/archive/2012/03/14/solved-how-to-move-a-hyper-v-virtual-machine-without-exporting-it-first.aspx