(last updated 9/26/08 - THIS LIST IS NO LONGER BEING MAINTAINED - please check TechNet for the latest proudct documenation) 

My current project involves being the only dedicated technical resource on the Virtualization RDP Team. While this is fun, it's also pushes the limits of my organizational skills (if you can call them that). Maybe the most time consuming daily activity is researching and dispensing information both internally to MS folks and to RDP customers and partners. I thought it would be useful to organize and maintain this list of resources online. Particularly with first and second revision products, such as Hyper-V & SCVMM, formalized documentation is slow to trickle out, but the closer to RTM we get the faster it comes.

These resources are not to help form an opinion or make a decision, they are focused on helping people with planning, development, and deployment of their Microsoft Virtualization initiatives.

Please let me know of anything valuable I'm not aware of, broken links, etc.

Web Sites

Microsoft.com/Virtualization - Resources

Microsoft.com/WindowsServer2008 - Virtualization and Server Consolidation

TechNet Library - Hyper-V

NEW: Hyper-V Planning and Deployment Guide

TechNet Library - Windows Server 2008

System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 Beta site

TechNet - System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2007

Failover Clustering Resource Center

Posts / Articles / Whitepapers

Step-by-Step Guide to Getting Started with Hyper-V

Server Core Installation Option of Windows Server 2008 Step-By-Step Guide

Performance Tuning Guidelines for Windows Server 2008

Infrastructure Planning and Design Guide

MSDN and TechNet Powered by Hyper-V

MS IT Showcase: Identifying Server Candidates for Virtualization

Virtualization Strategy Provides Tools, Processes, and Compliance Capabilities to Enhance Business Support and Drive Adoption

TechNet Magazine October 2008: Virtualization

   Clustering & HA

   Step-by-Step Guide for Testing Hyper-V and Failover Clustering

   Failover Cluster Step-by-Step Guide: Configuring a Two-Node File Server Failover Cluster

   Building a Host Cluster with Hyper-V Beta 1

   HYPER-V QUICK MIGRATION & VMWARE LIVE MIGRATION PART 1...

   SNW Demo: Windows Server 2008 Core, Hyper-V and Failover Clustering - with screenshots

   Storage & Virtual Disks

   Storage options for Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V

   More on Storage Options for Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V

   Boot from SCSI in Virtual Server vs. Boot from IDE in Windows Server virtualization

   Backups

   Backup and Disaster Recovery for Server Virtualization

   Symantec Backup Exec for Windows available with Hyper-V support

   Interim Backup Solution for Hyper-V

   Invoking diskshadow to back up a Virtual Machine from a Hyper-V Host

   VM Snapshots

   Virtual Machine Snapshotting under Hyper-V

   Virtual Machine Snapshots with Hyper-V

   Getting Undo Functionality with Hyper-V Snapshots

   Hyper-V and Snapshots Part 1 and Part 2

   Dev

   PowerShell Management Library for Hyper-V

   Creating an awesome developer sandbox using Hyper-V (Part 1)

   Workloads & Applications

   Active Directory in Hyper-V environments, Part 1 , Part 2, Part 3

   Exchange 2007: To Hyper-V or not to Hyper-V?

Blogs

Virtualization Team Blog

Windows Server Team Blog

HyperVoria - Hyper-V blog w/ forums

Cheng - SCVMM Program Manager

Ben Armstrong - virtual_pc_guy

Jose Barreto - Storage Architect

Rakeshm - SCVMM program manager

Robert Larson - MCS Architect

Mike Sterling - Hyper-V PM

Communities

TechNet Forums - Virtualization / Hyper-V

TechNet Forums - Virtual Machine Manager

Events

getVIRTUALnow - Register for a Microsoft Virtualization Launch event

Virtualization Congress 2008

Microsoft TechEd

Microsoft Management Summit

Webcasts/Podcasts

TechNet Edge - Virtualization

Transitioning to Windows Virtualization

TechNet Webcast: High Availability with Hyper-V (Level 300)

TechNet Webcast: A 360 View Inside the Virtual World (Level 200)

TechNet Webcast: Windows Server Virtualization Under the Hood (Level 200)

TechNet Webcast: Assess Your Server IT Infrastructure for Windows Server 2008 Migration and Virtualization (Level 300)

TechNet Webcast: Virtualization of Production Workloads Including Active Directory, SQL Server, and Others (Level 200)

TechNet Webcast: Using Virtual Machine Manager and Windows PowerShell to Deploy HP Windows Server 2008 Academy Labs (Level 300)

Downloads

Hyper-V RTM

Release Notes for Hyper-V

System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 Beta

Update for SCVMM 2008 Beta to work with Hyper-V RC1 & RTM

Linux Integration Components for Hyper-V

Microsoft Assessment and Planning Solution Accelerator

Virtualization ROI Tool

VMC to Hyper-V Import Tool Available

Hyper-V Updates

KB956710 - Hyper-V update : 24 proc et 192 VM possible

KB956589 - Resolve potential issues when you manage Hyper-V with SCVMM

KB956774 - Resolve the scenario where a BITS client cannot handle files that have paths that contain the volume GUID in Windows Server 2008.

KB956697 - Resolve an issue in which the Hyper-V Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) does not back up virtual machines properly

KB951308 - Increased functionality and virtual machine control in the Windows Server 2008 Failover Cluster Management console for the Hyper-V role

KB953828 - The NLB host does not converge as expected on Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V virtual machines

KB953585 - Error message when you try to start a Hyper-V virtual machine on a Windows Server 2008 computer that uses the NUMA architecture

KB950182 - A computer that is running an x86-based version of Windows Server 2008 or an x86-based version of Windows Vista may use fewer processors than expected if the number of cores on a socket is not a power of 2