Hyper-V does not have to save a snapshot on OS power down - you can change the shutdown option to shut down the client OS, assuming HV integration services are installed. And you want your SBS to use a shutdown script that stops Exchange services or the shutdown takes a very long time.
Carl -----Original Message----- From: David Lum [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, April 26, 2010 11:36 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: One of those days....(Hyper-V love) Yesterday I went to a client to do some DR testig - namely to make sure when the UPS lost AC power that a script would run and gracfully power off the servers. It worked, almost. The servers did power off, but while the Hyper-V host (2008 non-R2) started fine, the SBS 2003 VM did not. talking to Microsoft snapshots of SBS servers are not supported (I had exactly one). Also apparently hyper-V will take a snapshot if the host OS is told to power down - or something, as there was a snaphot of the 3 logical drives taken at the time the VM was attempting to start. 24 hours laster I'm probably 3-4 hours from knowing if all this merging even works.... Dave ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
