breathalize

The company I work for is heavily HP based in the datacentre – so I was quite disappointed to find that my first foray into Hyper-V was somewhat scuppered by the lack of compatibility between HP Network Teaming and Hyper-V. As ESX 3.5 could handle teaming itself it remained the natural choice for our virtualisation elements.

However having seen Windows 2008 R2 RC was on route, I wondered if the new version would allow for greater compatibility – to my surprise my first google search found this white paper explaining how to install this successfully with the current incarnation of Hyper-V.

While I love VMWare, I am always reminded by my manager that our worldwide MS licencing gives us a very competitive cost model for Hyper-V – the ability to run a host with sufficient NIC resilience may mean a dual platform will be on the cards …

I will most likely download the R2 version and test this … Will post my findings.