Hyper-V Best Practice Analyzer now available

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Yesterday we released an update for Windows Server 2008 R2 which provides a “best practice analyzer” for Hyper-V.  You can read about it here: https://support.microsoft.com/kb/977238 and download it from here: https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=89d80c15-0082-4fef-a4fc-fefa463bed08. 

But what is it?  How do you use it?  And why should you care?

The Hyper-V Best Practice Analyzer is a tool that will scan your Hyper-V server and let you know if there are any common best practices that you are not following.  To use it you just need to download and install the update (from the above link) and then open Server Manager.

When you select the entry for Hyper-V under the Roles node you should see a new section called Best Practice Analyzer:

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Here you can select to scan the Hyper-V role and see how you are going against common best practices.

While this might sound boring – I have found this tool to be quite useful.  When I ran it on my server at home it alerted me to the fact that I had a virtual machine where I had not updated the integration components to the latest version.

One other neat feature of the Best Practice Analyzer is the ability to exclude results.  This way you can remove best practices that you do not believe apply to your environment – so you will not have to deal with a large number of unnecessary errors / warnings.

So go grab it and try it out on your Hyper-V server!

Cheers,
Ben

Comments

  • Anonymous
    April 28, 2010
    Great tool! Going to go run it on my Hyper-V Hosts now!!

  • Anonymous
    April 28, 2010
    I am assuming this can't be used for Hyper-V Server 2008 R2?

  • Anonymous
    April 28, 2010
    Sean - Correct.  Windows Server only. Cheers, Ben

  • Anonymous
    April 28, 2010
    Thanks for the heads up Ben.  There is a whole host of these BPA updates available, and they also come down via Windows Update (mine did last night).  You can read more here: http://blogs.technet.com/askds/archive/2010/04/28/win2008-r2-bpa-updates-released-for-april-2010-wave.aspx Cheers Janson

  • Anonymous
    April 28, 2010
    Will the Hyper-V BPA be available for the Hyper-V Server 2008 R2? Cheers

  • Anonymous
    April 28, 2010
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  • Anonymous
    April 29, 2010
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  • Anonymous
    May 03, 2011
    Long story, but I have Win2K8 R2 given by the basic table, which is not domain joined with Server Manager, the only way I can do is from a working group on the remote server administrator. All my servers are domain Win2K8R2 joined.<a href="recenthits.com/">Laptop Reviews</a>

  • Anonymous
    April 19, 2012
    This can now be installed on Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 SP1. Just download the files and run them as: wusa Windows6.1-KB977238-x64.msu wusa Windows6.1-KB2485986-x64.msu Open Server Manager remotely and when you select the entry for Hyper-V under the Roles node you should see a new section called Best Practice Analyzer on your Hyper V Server 2008 R2.