Thursday, August 7, 2008

Hyper-V and Failover Clustering patch

For all of you that have been grumbling about a few things regarding Hyper-V and Failover Clustering there is a little bit of relief.

Jode Baretto (MSFT storage guy) just announced a new patch that fixes the following:

  • Changes to the virtual machine view
  • Changes to virtual machine actions
  • Allow for more than one virtual machine in a "Services or Applications" group
  • Add support for mount points or volumes without a drive letter
  • Changes to the virtual machine refresh action
  • Behavior changes if any node of the failover cluster has a disconnected virtual machine
  • Behavior change when you add a pass-through disk to a virtual machine
  • Behavior change when the parent differencing disk is not on shared storage
  • Volume path copy
I don't know about you, but these are welcome fixes to me.

You can find the patch here:
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=951308