Are there any best practice rules and tweaks one should use with Hyper-V?
We use Hyper-V on 2008 R2 servers (multiple hosts) each host has 4 NICs
where 2 of them are connected to LAN as team (HP teaming) remaining 2 NICs
are connected to iSCSI storage (2 different routes for MPIO) ...

I am trying to undestand is any difference berween Windows server 2008 R2 and
Windows server 2008 R2 Hyper-V, If I am running windows server 2008 R2 , Does
it contain windows server 2008 R2 heyper-V ?
is Windows server 2008 R2 hyper-V is a different product  than windows

I want to backup all my virtual machines, as a whole. Not just files
on a virtual machine, I want to grab the whole virtual machine. Is
there a way to automate this? I have about 5 virtual servers, each has
between 3-5 virtual machines running.

I have a physical server that I want to put on a Virtual Server.
The question is: ¿Can I convert from physical HD to vhd format, or iso to vhd?
Thanks for your time!

I just installed a second guest OS (Windows Server 2008) on a Windows Server
Hyper-V parent. I used Hyper-V manager to set up the processors, disks, and
network adapter. But after installing the second guest OS it says no network
adapter is installed. Did I miss a basic step?

When creating a new virtual machine in HyperV mgt console, there is no option
to specify what type of disk you want to create - either fixed disk size
(preferred for SAN storage) or dynamically expanding  disk. The wizard just
goes ahead and created a dynamically expanding disk, ...

Im looking at other virtual computer software. I would like to just
try it and see wht it is like.
I have looked at vmware but Im confused which software I can use. I
download "vmware server" but after I have installed it Im not sure how

Sorry but i'am a newbie in Hyper-V environment.
I 'd like to spare a smart card hosted by a physical pc with a guest running
within Windows 2008 R2 Hyper-V VM.
Is it possible ?

I have a Dell Windows 2008 server running Hyper-V.
It has 3 Virtual Machines on it.
I can ping all of these servers from my Windows 7 client with not problem.
But I cannot RDC into any of them.

I can't see multiple hard drive partitions in my SBS2008 child partition,
and can't figure out why.
I'm in the process of setting up a new SBS2008 system to move my office to
from our existing SBS2000. I set up the parent partition as Server 2008 x64

Questions for all virtualization gurus:
We have 3 critical servers:
Sharepoint MOSS 2007 (win 2K8 R2)
Exchange Mail 2007 (win 2K3)

Running Windows Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 on a Dell R710 w/two Quad Port NICs.
The first is the onboard Broadcom BCM5709C NetXtreme II Gig E the second is
an Intel(R) Gigabit VT Quad Port Server Adapter.
By default all the ports are set to DHCP.