I’ve just gotten my first Hyper-V cluster up and running. It was really easy. I’m doing a pilot build where the plan is to test like crazy, wipe the build and then put in a clean production system. I used this plan for a multiple cluster ESX deployment this time last year and it worked out nicely.
My plan was to not activate the OS until as late as possible. I found that none of the updates, e.g. Hyper-V RTM, Hyper-V cluster update, etc would install … I was being told "This update is not applicable for your system". I’d built my Server Core host images by slipstreaming the update into install.wim for a WDS deployment to workaround that one. But I really wanted that cluster fix so I could copy/paste the GUID for the VM LUN’s from the cluster MMC into the Hyper-V MMC to build the VM’s. The lack of an activation caused that problem … easy to fix but annoying for anyone using OEM licensing with it’s limited activations.
Anyway, the clustering was easy and I’ve always thought Hyper-V was easy. I’m impressed!