Hyper-V deployment Guide is now available for Download

Microsoft has released a guide for deploying Hyper-V that is now available for download at:

http://download.microsoft.com/download/8/1/5/81556693-1f05-494a-8d45-cdeeb6d735e0/HyperV_Deploy.doc

The 30 page guide contains

• Overview of Hyper-V
• Before You Install Hyper-V
• Hardware Considerations
• About Virtual Machines and Guest Operating Systems
• Install the Hyper-V Role on a Server Core Installation of Windows Server 2008
• Install the Hyper-V Role on a Full Installation of Windows Server 2008
• Install and Configure Hyper-V Tools for Remote Administration
• Configuring Virtual Networks

VMware ESXi now available (Free)

You can now download the new free VMWare ESXi Hypervisor.
See
https://www.vmware.com/tryvmware/login.php?eval=esxi&t=1

VMWare's press release on this is here:
http://vmware.com/company/news/releases/esxi_pricing.html

Citrix Announces Project Kensho

Citrix yesterday announced Project Kensho a slew of Open Virtual Machine Format (OVF) Tools.
See
http://www.citrix.com/English/NE/news/news.asp?newsID=1679371&ntref=hp_article_headlines_US

Also see the Microsoft Virtualization Team blog for some additional info about the above as well as info on a new Offline Patching tool for VM's.

http://blogs.technet.com/virtualization/archive/2008/07/16/vm-standards-offline-patching-tools.aspx

Link Pick: Hyper-V maximum support configurations

While surfing and trying to read more about Hyper-V I came acros Nick MacKechnie's blog post on the Maximum Supported Configuration for Hyper-V. Nick works at Microsoft New Zealand. Good stuff to have handy when you are ready to start building a Hyper-V environment.

http://blogs.msdn.com/nickmac/archive/2008/07/04/hyper-v-rtm-maximum-supported-configurations.aspx