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Managing MAC Addresses in Virtual Networks: Date - Feb 24, 2010; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Chris Sanders; Section - Networking; MAC addresses are often not a large concern, but there are a few special considerations when using virtualized computers which are hardware independent.
Using Fixed Size Virtual Hard Disks – Just Do It!: Date - Feb 18, 2010; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Chris Sanders; Section - Installation & Deployment; When configuring virtual hard disks, a fixed size disk has several advantages over a dynamically expanding disk. Here are a few of them…
Migrating Virtual Machines between Hyper-V Hosts: Date - Jan 27, 2010; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Chris Sanders; Section - Installation & Deployment; In the past, migrating a virtual machine was simply a matter of copying files. In Hyper-V, another method I preferred.
Configuring Time Synchronization in Hyper-V: Date - Jan 21, 2010; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Chris Sanders; Section - Management; Time synchronization functions pretty simply in Hyper-V, but there are a few scenarios where you may want to modify this behavior.

Putting an ESX host in maintenance mode: known problems: Date - Sep 09, 2008; Rating - 1; Author - Vincent Vlieghe; Section - Resource Optimization; This article describes how to avoid that the enter maintenance mode seems to be stuck
Hyper-V and HP Proliant Support Pack (PSP): Date - Jul 29, 2008; Rating - 4; Author - Robert Larson; Section - Installation & Deployment; When you install Hyper-V on an HP server you need to do it in a certain order to prevent getting stuck.
Moving Virtual Machines between Hyper-V Hosts: Date - Jan 28, 2009; Rating - 3.3; Author - Robert Larson; Section - Management; Moving VMs between Hyper-V hosts manually requires a certain process of Export and Import
Improving Performance - Antivirus Exclusions on Hyper-V: Date - Jan 14, 2009; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Robert Larson; Section - Performance and Scalability; Antivirus software can significantly degrade performance on a Hyper-V host. Using these exclusions in you antivirus software can help solve the problem