Hyper-V FAQs, Tips, and Tricks - Post SP1 hotfixes

As promised, here's the next post in the Hyper-V FAQs, Tips, and Tricks Series, following up from the TechEd 2011 VIR471-INT session. Today's post discusses the most important hotfixes you need to make sure you have installed in your Hyper-V environment.

If you're running W2K8R2SP1, there aren't too many fixes to be aware of just yet, but there are a few fairly important ones:

The critical ones (in my opinion)

• KB2263829 - Guest Networking lost under load
• KB2531907 - The Validate hotfix

The important ones

• KB2494016 - Stop error 0x0000007a in guest on failed CSV Redirection
• KB2496089 - VMMS stops responding intermittently on service restart
• KB2521348 - VM online backup fails when SAN policy is set to "Offline All"
• KB2519946 - Timeout Detection and Recovery (TDR) randomly occurs in a virtual machine that uses the RemoteFX feature in Windows Server 2008 R2

Time is short today, so I won't go into details on the bugs, but you can follow the links and find out if they apply to you.

Good luck, and happy virtualizing.

Comments

[MattRK]

Just curious, do you think i should install these hotfixes even if i'm not having any of the described issues?