The article in CIO magazine, How Microsoft Hyper-V Helped My IT Shop Revamp Disaster Recovery, details my efforts to reorganize network and recovery operations around storage and server virtualization. It also mentions the year-long virtualization study that I did in 2007/2008.
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Hyper-V RC Tip — Installing and Setting IP
Posted byThe release candidate for Hyper-V is now out. I am doing some performance and feature testing. Meantime, here are some times on installing Hyper-V on a Windows Server 2008 Enterprise 64-bit core build.
Name the computer:
- netdom renamecomputer %computername% /newname:<your server name>
Enable remote management:
- On the core server: WinRM quickconfig
- On the client: winrs -r:<your server name> cmd
Set the IP address:
- netsh interface IPv4 show interfaces
- netsh interface ipv4 set address name=”Interface” source=static address=192.168.1.10 mask=255.255.255.0 gateway=192.168.1.1
- netsh interface ipv4 add dnsserver name=”Interface” address=192.168.1.50 index=1
Install Hyper-V:
- Download the Hyper-V RC and copy it onto the server
- wusa.exe Windows6.0-KB950050-x64.msu
- start /w ocsetup.exe Microsoft-Hyper-V