It’s that time of year when between 1,000 and 2,000 Microsoft Valuable Professionals (MVPs) stop blogging, tweeting, doing public speaking, and drop of the face of the planet. That’s because it’s MVP Summit time, the opportunity for us to visit with Microsoft, the product groups and our colleagues in the MVP world in Bellevue (near Seattle) and Redmond (the MSFT global HQ).
We go off the air because most of the content is under NDA. This is the biggest privilege we get as MVPs, interacting directly with the product groups, sharing your feedback (more later), and getting some insider info which when it is public, we can use to help educate our respective communities.
I’m all packed, and ready to rock. I fly into Seattle tomorrow night and stay for a week. I know that some MVPs are landing around now to contribute to MSFT Geek Give, a charitable program run by MSFT before big conferences. I’ve a very interesting day lined up for Monday with a few of my friends. I can’t talk about it yet (or at all – I’ll find out on Monday) but I’m really looking forward to it and a BIG thank you to the persons responsible for arranging it. And then we go deep under, emerging on Friday, and that’s all you’ll hear from me on those days 
In the meantime, I’ll get to hang out with my fellow Hyper-V MVP and the various friends I’ve gotten to know in this community over the past few years.
Back to your feedback. On my last 2 visits, I’ve asked you for your feedback. On those occasions we had already released version of Hyper-V. So this time, I want your feedback on Windows 8 Hyper-V and what you’d like like to hear on Windows vNext Hyper-V. My rules for your feedback are simple:
- Read the list of publicly released features for Windows Server 8 Hyper-V.
- When posting your feedback on Windows Server 8, remember that the beta/”Consumer Preview” is to be launched on Feb 29th. We are probably at feature lock so no new stuff will be developed, but feedback on existing stuff will be welcome.
- If something isn’t there in v8, what would you like to see in “v9 Hyper-V”?
- Keep it polite, short, and explain reason.
Post your feedback using the comment feature at the end of this post. Feedback is important to the Hyper-V guys. They really do value and use it. If you say what you want and why, the “why” is just as important as the “what”. There’s a long list of “what” and the “why” can change the order.
I would like to see the ability to expand a VHD(x)-file when the server (vm) is running. Another nice feature would be to be able to add CPU or memory that applies on the next restart of the vm. The servers are often restarted during maintenance hours (night), and it would be nice to be able to automate this easily.
I would like to seee the ability to replicate multiple VHD’s with write ordering or a consistancy group between them. Then I would like the ability to choose sync or async 😉