book.book Page 1 Wednesday, March 18, 2009 2:57 PM Microsoft® Hyper-V™ for Dell™ PowerEdge™ Systems Important Information Guide w w w. d e l l . c o m | s u p p o r t . d e l l .
book.book Page 2 Wednesday, March 18, 2009 2:57 PM Notes and Cautions NOTE: A NOTE indicates important information that helps you make better use of your computer. CAUTION: A CAUTION indicates either potential damage to hardware or loss of data and tells you how to avoid the problem. ____________________ Information in this document is subject to change without notice. © 2008-2009 Dell Inc. All rights reserved.
book.book Page 3 Wednesday, March 18, 2009 2:57 PM Contents Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Supported Hardware Supported Dell PowerEdge™ Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Enabling Hardware Features on Dell PowerEdge Systems to Support Hyper-V . . . . . . . . . . . Hyper-V Role on Windows Server 2008 x64 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 . . . . . . . . .
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book.book Page 6 Wednesday, March 18, 2009 2:57 PM Supported Dell PowerEdge™ Systems Table 1-1.
book.book Page 7 Wednesday, March 18, 2009 2:57 PM Table 1-1. Table of Supported Dell Systems (continued) System Model Processor Socket Remark PowerEdge T100 Intel 1 Only with Xeon PowerEdge 1430 Intel 1 Only with Xeon PowerEdge 840 Intel 1 Only with Xeon PowerEdge 860 Intel 1 Only with Xeon PowerEdge SC440 Intel 1 Only with Xeon a PowerEdge 6800 and PowerEdge 6850 systems having Intel Processors with Processor ID F48 support Hyper-V.
book.book Page 8 Wednesday, March 18, 2009 2:57 PM Hyper-V Role on Windows Server 2008 x64 Upgrading Hyper-V Role from Beta to RTM If your system has Windows Server 2008 x64 Edition, you must upgrade from Hyper-V Beta version to Hyper-V RTM version. For more information on updating to Hyper-V RTM, see article 950050 on the Microsoft Help and Support website at support.microsoft.com\kb. NOTE: Dell no longer supports the Hyper-V Beta version.
book.book Page 9 Wednesday, March 18, 2009 2:57 PM 5 Select Hyper-V as shown in Figure 1-1 and click Next. The Create Virtual Networks page appears. Figure 1-1. Hyper-V Role Selection Page 6 Select one of the network adapters as shown in Figure 1-2 and click Next. NOTE: The Hyper-V Role Wizard allows you to proceed with the Hyper-V Role configuration without creating a virtual network. The virtual network may be created later using the Virtual Network Manager from the Hyper-V Manager Console.
book.book Page 10 Wednesday, March 18, 2009 2:57 PM Figure 1-2. Virtual Network Creation Page 7 Follow the instructions on the screen to complete the role installation. 8 Reboot the system when prompted. The Hyper-V role installation is complete. A Hyper-V Manager Microsoft Management Console (MMC) may be used either locally or remotely to manage the virtual environment on this system.
book.book Page 11 Wednesday, March 18, 2009 2:57 PM 3 At the command prompt, type the following command: start /w ocsetup Microsoft-Hyper-V 4 Reboot the system when prompted. The Hyper-V Role installation is now complete. A remote Hyper-V Manager console can be used to manage the Hyper-V Role on Server Core. Hyper-V Server 2008 Hyper-V Server 2008 is hypervisor-based server virtualization technology designed to run virtualization as a role.
book.book Page 12 Wednesday, March 18, 2009 2:57 PM • Add Local Administrator: Adds existing user to Local Admin Group • Windows Update Settings: Sets to Manual or Automatic • Download and Install Updates: Manually Downloads Windows Updates • Remote Desktop: Enables or Disables Remote Access system Creating and Managing Virtual Machines on Hyper-V Server 2008 A remote Hyper-V Manager or Virtual Machine Manager 2008 console is used to create and manage virtual machines on Hyper-V Server 2008.
book.book Page 13 Wednesday, March 18, 2009 2:57 PM Guest Operating System Installed Using Dell Recovery Media for Windows Server 2008 x64 Editions Prompts for Activation. You must enter a virtual PID key when you create a guest operating system in a virtualized environment. A Windows Server 2008 guest operating system installation using the Dell Recovery media for Windows Server 2008 is not pre-activated.
book.book Page 14 Wednesday, March 18, 2009 2:57 PM Hyper-V role installation with non-US (English) Locale Setting is only supported with the Hyper-V RTM version and not with Hyper-V Beta version. Windows Server 2008 Document on Beta Hyper-V Shipped Along With Your System. Along with your operating system kit, a document is shipped with the following information: This copy of Windows Server® 2008 contains a beta version of Hyper-V™, the hypervisor-based virtualization feature.
book.book Page 15 Wednesday, March 18, 2009 2:57 PM To resolve this issue, download the latest firmware version from the Dell Support website at support.dell.com. NOTE: The minimum required firmware version for DRAC 4 is 1.61, and for DRAC 5 is 1.4.0. Hyper-V VLAN Capability Not Functional on Intel and Broadcom Network Adapters When you enable VLAN tagging using Hyper-V's VLAN capability, the parent partition and child partitions may lose network connectivity with the external network.
book.book Page 16 Wednesday, March 18, 2009 2:57 PM The limitations of the Hyper-V are: • A TOE-enabled team that is assigned to a Hyper-V virtual network may report TOE as an offload capability in BACS console, but the TOE feature for the team does not work since Hyper-V does not support this functionality yet.
book.book Page 17 Wednesday, March 18, 2009 2:57 PM To workaround this issue, manually reconfigure the static settings on the new virtual network adapter created in the parent partition. To prevent this issue, it is recommended that you set static network settings on the parent partition network adapters only after creating the required virtual networks.
book.book Page 18 Wednesday, March 18, 2009 2:57 PM To resolve this issue, see article 967902 on the Microsoft Help and Support website at support.microsoft.com\kb.
