Planning For Hyper-V Virtualized Configurations; Pre-Installation Requirements - Dell PowerVault MD3200 Series White Paper

Planning for Hyper-V: PowerVault™ MD3200 and MD3200i Series of Arrays
Both the Dell PowerVault MD3200 and MD3200i storage arrays are supported with the Microsoft
Windows Server 2008 Release 2 operating system running the Hyper-V role.

Planning for Hyper-V Virtualized Configurations

Planning for Hyper-V virtualized configurations includes these tasks:
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Making sure that pre-installation requirements are met
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Configuring the network adapter
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Deciding how to assign physical drives to VMs
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Deciding when to use pass-through physical disks or virtual hard drives (VHDs)
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Planning child partitions
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Deciding how to cluster

Pre-installation Requirements

To install and use the Hyper-V role, make sure you have the following processing features on your
system:
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An x64-based processor.
Hyper-V is not available for 32-bit systems or Itanium-based systems.
You can download the AMD utility for Hyper-V compatibility from this website:
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http://support.amd.com/us/Pages/dynamicDetails.aspx?ListID=c5cd2c08-1432-4756-
aafa-4d9dc646342f&ItemID=177
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Hardware-assisted virtualization.
Processors with Intel Virtualization Technology (Intel VT)
AMD Virtualization Technology (AMD-V)
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Hardware-enforced data execution prevention (DEP) must be available and enabled.
The Intel XD bit must be enabled (execution disable bit).
The AMD NX bit must be enabled (no execute bit).
Install the updates that you need. To receive a current list of all of the updates, go to this website:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd430893.aspx
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