Dell Micrsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 Important Information Guide

Microsoft® Hyper-V™ for

Dell™ PowerEdge™ Systems

Important Information Guide

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Contents

Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Supported Hardware

Supported Dell PowerEdge™ Systems

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Enabling Hardware Features on Dell PowerEdge
Systems to Support Hyper-V

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Hyper-V Role on Windows Server 2008 x64 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Upgrading Hyper-V Role from Beta to RTM

Enabling Hyper-V Role on Windows Server 2008 X64 Edition

Hyper-V Server 2008

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Hyper-V Configuration Tool on Hyper-V Server 2008

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Creating and Managing Virtual Machines
on Hyper-V Server 2008

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Known Issues and Resolutions for Hyper-V Role
and Hyper-V Server 2008

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4 Contents

Overview

This document provides the following information:

• List of Dell™ systems supporting Hyper-V™

• Features required to configure Hyper-V on Dell systems

• Instructions for Upgrading Hyper-V Role from Beta to RTM

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• Instructions for enabling Hyper-V role on Microsoft
2008 x64

• Hyper-V configuration tool on Hyper-V Server 2008

• Instructions for creating and managing Virtual Machines on Hyper-V
Server 2008

• Known Issues and resolutions for Hyper-V Role and Hyper-V Server 2008

Microsoft Hyper-V is a hypervisor based virtualization technology designed
for x64 based systems. Microsoft provides virtualization in two forms:

• As a Hyper-V role.

• As a standalone operating system, Hyper-V Server 2008.

NOTE: Dell does not offer factory installations of the Windows Server 2008 x64

editions without Hyper-V.

NOTE: The Hyper-V role is not available on x86 based Windows Server 2008

operating system.

Windows Server®

Supported Hardware

This section provides the Dell hardware requirements for supporting
Microsoft Hyper-V based products.

NOTE: For latest information on supported hardware for Hyper-V, see the

Dell website at dell.com/microsoft/virtualization.

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Supported Dell PowerEdge™ Systems

Table 1-1. Table of Supported Dell Systems

System Model Processor Socket Remark

Dell PowerEdge R610 Intel

PowerEdge R710 Intel 2

PowerEdge T610 Intel 2

PowerEdge M610 Intel 2

PowerEdge M710 Intel 2

PowerEdge R905 AMD™ 4

PowerEdge R900 Intel 4

PowerEdge 6950 AMD 4

PowerEdge 6800 Intel 4 Only with select processors

PowerEdge 6850 Intel 4 Only with select processors

PowerEdge R805 AMD 2

PowerEdge M600 Intel 2

PowerEdge M605 AMD 2

PowerEdge 2970 AMD 2

PowerEdge 1950 I/II/III Intel 2

PowerEdge 2900 I/II/III Intel 2

PowerEdge 2950 I/II/III Intel 2

PowerEdge T605 AMD 2

PowerEdge 1900 Intel 2

PowerEdge 1955 Intel 2

PowerEdge SC1435 AMD 2

PowerEdge R300 Intel 1 Only with Xeon

PowerEdge T300 Intel 1 Only with Xeon

PowerEdge R200 Intel 1 Only with Xeon

PowerEdge T105 AMD 1

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