I have been inundated by people here at VMworld 2009 with tons of questions on Hyper-V and who want to see demos of Hyper-V. This blog post attempts to put together a list material for folks. Given the large amount of material this list is only a snapshot but one which will provide you enough to get started.
First off there is a huge amount of technical articles, documentation, whitepapers, case studies, API documentation that’s available. Your start point should be the Virtualization page http://www.microsoft.com/virtualization/default.mspx . That site provides links to numerous http://www.microsoft.com/virtualization/casestudies/default.mspx about customers who are using Hyper-V and Microsoft Virtualization solutions. Next I suggest looking at the http://www.microsoft.com/virtualization/solutions/datacenter-consolidation/default.mspx that provides information on the customer focused scenarios. Following this I encourage you to delve into the http://www.microsoft.com/virtualization/products/server/default.mspx that are used to build these solutions.
For the geeks like me who are really looking to understand how to get started and the technical details you should start your journey at the http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/default.aspx . For those of you who wanted to just get to the nuts and bolts go straight to the http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc732470(WS.10).aspx For folks wanting to understand the architecture in some depth you want to start http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc768520(BTS.10).aspx . Developers can jump straight to the http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc136992(VS.85).aspx .
Finally for folks who want to see a collection of videos with great demos of the products I’d like to point to http://blogs.technet.com/tonyso/archive/2009/09/03/hyper-v-tv.aspx which contains a huge collection of these.
Enjoy.
Vijay Tewari
Principal Program Manager, Windows Server Virtualization
