Recently I posted about a page in the TechNet Wiki which lists a lot of Hyper-V tools. Yesterday on Hyper-V workshop, Michel Lüscher mentioned two lists in the TechNet Wiki where you can find Hyper-V and Cluster Hotfixes for Windows Server 2008 R2.
List of Hyper-V Hotfixes for Windows Server 2008 R2 (TechNet Wiki):
List of Cluster Hotfixes for Windows Server 2008 R2 (TechNet Wiki):
Microsoft and the community are really starting to work with the TechNet Wiki platform. Now thanks to James van den Berg I found a great wiki page with a collection of Hyper-V tools.
The collection includes a list of the following content:
You can find also a lot of other interessting content on the TechNet Wiki. For example for Exchange, PowerShell and SQL.
A few weeks ago was the Hyper-V.nu Community Event in Amsterdam. Carsten Rachfahl recorded the sessions.
listen carefully at 59:00 
Today is my first day at itnetx gmbh, a consulting and engineering company located in Bern/Switzerland. itnetx is focussed on Microsoft Technologies, especially Microsoft Private Cloud Solutions, Microsoft System Center and Microsoft Virtualization. In 2011 itnetx has been awarded by Microsoft Switzerland as “Microsoft Partner of the year – Datacenter”
Since this are my preferred Microsoft technologies, it seems like a perfect match.
With the Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) you can administrate the Server with remote consoles. Now you can download the Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 7, but if you are on Windows Server 2008 R2 you can just enable the tools per ServerManagerCmd.exe.
ServerManagerCmd -install RSAT-Hyper-V ServerManagerCmd -install RSAT-Clustering
Today my two new virtualization nodes from Cisco arrived. For my Microsoft Hyper-V lab I needed two new nodes and I got a really good offering for two Cisco UCS C200 M2 High-Density Rack-Mount Servers.
The whole Cisco server series is optimized for virtualization and offers very cool features like a buildiin Cisco Integrated Management Controller (without extra charge) and Ciscos Extended Memory Technology which allows to use up to 192GB RAM.
Technical Specs
The Cisco UCS C200 M2 server is a high-density, 2-socket, 1 rack unit (RU) rack-mount server built for production-level network infrastructure, web services, and mainstream data center, branch, and remote-office applications.
Hardware
The Hardware makes a really good first impression.
One of my next posts will be about the CIMC (Cisco Integrated Management Controller) which I really started to like.