Installing Hyper-V Server: Learn from Dan Woodman's Mistakes

Microsoft blogger Dan Woodman returned from a brief vacation with a singular goal in mind: installing Hyper-V Server. He chronicled his experience on his blog, warts and all.

There are four basic sections to the post:

• Installation
• Configuration
• Building a domain controller
• Using Hyper-V as it was intended

Dan ran into a firewall issue, as well as a problem around security authentication, so it's a good read if you're preparing to install Hyper-V Server and want to see what to expect. Once he got those issues resolved, Dan was a happy man:

Once I had everything working and could actually create virtual machines, WOW!  The interface from within Windows Vista was every bit as robust and functional as the actual Hyper-V management tool built into Server 2008.  I get a snapshot of my machines, have access to all the settings, networking options, etc.