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Windows 8 developer preview have been out for some time now , and with it comes the new HyperV ,  I know it’s a bit early to start testing it but I could not wait specially with all of the new features , we are not talking about the feature such as hardware limits I am talking about totally new features that will change the game for a lot of us.

First Installing hyperV

note that the server manager looks totally different

go to mange and select add roles ( or you can select it directly from the dashboard )

the Scenario based is limited to RDS scenarios for now but i think there will be more

yes we want the local server

select HyperV ( note that it has new roles and features )

yes we need to install HyperV

select restart automatically

and we done now press start

the start menu looks totally different Right  

Now lets create Vm

Give it a name

Now the wizard have option to enable Dynamic memory – the memory here will be the startup memory still the DM will be 512-6……  so if your Guest don’t need  it will give it back which kind of  neat

we will connect the network later

HyperV 3 introduce a new type of disks a vhdx

This is a window from new HD wizard

Back to creating a VM

NEXT STEP installing the os inside the vm

When I was copying the iso file , the new copy look much cooler right  

don’t forget to install the NEW Integration services

Now lets give a look to the new settings

This will allow us to add to the vms fiber adapter and map it to the parent (well I don’t have Fiber card in my test servers but you will get the idea )

Next we add storage pool ( this is just a locations )

Now lets create some networks

Incase you did not know SR-IOV please give a look to this video

now we create a pool for the network

One of the first things you notice is the long awaited fiber adapter now we can add it to the Vms 

and we can map it to the physical cards

The dynamic memory is almost the same

also a great feature Now you can mange each network card bandwidth

the DHCP guard and the router Guard both stops the DHCP or the router  packets from passing from the VMs

the Most important feature of all the replication

Http is good for now (specially that is a Special certificate is required not just server authentication )

yes please let us configure the remote server

and the remote server config opens ( you know this saddens my a bit how easy things become, AHHHHHHHHHHHH the good old days of NT )

choose the VHD

the Auto snaps to be created between each replication

yes we want to start right away

and the replication starts

after the replication finishes we now have a new menu

1. planned failover
2. pause replication
3. Health
4. remove replication 

the same info we can get through the PowerShell but I thing this looks good

the failover the VM MUST be off

One nice feature also is the move feature

First we need to enable on the host the migration feature

R click and move

now we have three option

1. move to shared storage
2. move to another host
3. move storage

specify the target DNS name

select what you want to move

and the Vm is moved

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