Brien M. Posey: In the first part of this article series, I talked about the roles of the physical network adapter and the virtual network adapter within a Hyper-V parent partition. I also briefly discussed the virtual switch. In this article, I want to continue the discussion by talking about the role of the virtual switch in more detail. As I do, I will also show you how child partitions fit into the picture.

Microsoft released a brochure for Data Protection Manager 2010 and how to use it to backup Hyper-V.  Here’s the readers digest version:

Steve Bucci, recently posted another great video he put together that shows you how to troubleshoot and correct some common configuration mistakes by guiding you through the areas to double-check in a typical App-V deployment.  Whether you're new to Microsoft Application Virtualization or a seasoned veteran, you'll definitely want to spend the 10 minutes to check out this short video: 

Disaster recovery has become table stakes in the world of server virtualization. Any good virtualization platform these days will find a way to restart a virtual machine in the event of a hardware failure. But which vendor excels more than any other at getting critical applications back online after failures, and making sure the most important virtual machines are given priority in the restart process?

Ben Armstrong: Last week I received the latest support call statistics for Hyper-V on Windows Server 2008 R2 – and it seems that a number of you are hitting problems that we know about – and have hotfixes “ready to go” for.  So I would like to take a moment to bring these hotfixes to your attention.