Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V

Hey guys,

As you may already know, Microsoft entered the hypervisor-based virtualization market with their Hyper-V product; it is currently available as a Release Candidate.

I've had a bit of a chance to play with Hyper-V and it kind of strikes me as really good bad medicine. I know it's good for me and I'll feel better in the long run, but it's kind of hard to get it down at first.

There has been a fair bit written about Hyper-V already; what I struggled with, however , is their snapshot feature. This feature replaces the saved state and undo drives that you may have used with Virtual PC and Virtual Server.

The video below illustrates how to use snapshots. It is a little bit long; I really wanted to be very explicit in explaining this feature since there are some subtle things that can trip you up.

Click on the image below to start the video



Thanks!

Eric.