Windows Server 2008 R2 RTW

W2008 R2 has been released to the web by Microsoft.  You can download it from EOpen or MVLS now if you have a volume license account.  Expect to see it on Friday if you have TechNet or MSDN subscriptions.

I’m itching to get this deployed but there’s a few things that will slow me down on the production systems:

1. VMM 2008 cannot manage Hyper-V on Windows Server 2008 R2.  I’m running a Hyper-V 2008 production cluster so that’s pretty important.
2. There are no OpsMgr management packs for Windows Server 2008 R2 yet.  Some of the 2008 management packs only got released a few months ago, i.e. IIS and Failover Clustering!
3. HP don’t have support for it yet.  We have to wait until PSP (Proliant Support Pack) 8.30 for that.

I do have a test server (that I blogged about before) that’ll get rebuilt with the RTM release, hopefully next week.