Imagine this: you are running a pretty big Hyper-V environment, Microsoft releases a service pack that adds a great new feature like Dynamic Memory (DM), legacy OS\u2019s will require the new ICs, and you really want to get DM up and running. Just how will you get those ICs installed in all those VMs?<\/p>\n
First you need to check your requirements for Dynamic Memory. The good news is that any Windows Server 2008 R2 with SP1 VM will have the ICs. But odds are that if you have a large farm then things aren\u2019t all that simple for you. Check out the Dynamic Memory Configuration Guide<\/a> to see the guest requirements for each supported OS version and edition. <\/p>\n OK, let\u2019s have a look at a few options:<\/p>\n By Hand<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Log into each VM, install the ICs, and reboot. Yuk! That\u2019s only good in the smallest of environments or if you\u2019re just testing out DM on one or two VMs.<\/p>\n VMM<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n VMM has the ability to install integration components into VMs. The process goes like this:<\/p>\n You\u2019ll see the VM\u2019s power up and power down during the installation process. Now you\u2019re done.<\/p>\n WSUS<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Here\u2019s an unsupported option that will be fine in a large lab. You can use the System Center Updates Publisher to inject updates into a WSUS server. Grab the updates from a W2008 R2 SP1 Hyper-V server and inject them into the WSUS server. Now you let Windows Update take care of your IC upgrade.<\/p>\n Configuration Manager<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n This is the one I like the most. ConfigMgr is the IT megalomaniac\u2019s dream come true. It is a lot of things but at it\u2019s heart is the ability to discover what machines are and distribute software to collections of machines that meet some criteria. So for example, you can discover if a Windows machine is a Hyper-V VM and put it in a collection. You can even categorise them.<\/p>\n You may notice that Windows Server 2008 with SP2 Web and Standard editions require a prerequisite update to get DM working<\/a>. <\/p>\n So, you can advertise the ICs to a collection of W2008 with SP2 standard and web editions, making that update a requirement. The update gets installed, and then the ICs get installed. All other OS\u2019s: it\u2019s just an update. And of course, you just need to install SP1 on your W2008 R2 VMs. As you may have noticed, I\u2019[m not promoting the use of the updates function of ConfigMgr; I\u2019m talking about the ability to distribute software.<\/p>\n I\u2019ll be honest \u2013 I don\u2019t know if the ConfigMgr method is supported or not (like the WSUS option) but it\u2019s pretty tidy, and surely must be the most attractive of all in a large managed environment. And because it\u2019s a simple software distribution, I can\u2019t see what the problem might be.<\/p>\n Imagine this: you are running a pretty big Hyper-V environment, Microsoft releases a service pack that adds a great new feature like Dynamic Memory (DM), legacy OS\u2019s will require the new ICs, and you really want to get DM up and running. Just how will you get those ICs installed in all those VMs? First … Continue reading “Deploying New Hyper-V Integration Components”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[173,181,195,196,116,117,126],"class_list":["post-11083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hyper-v","tag-configmgr","tag-hyper-v","tag-virtualisation","tag-vmm","tag-windows-server-2008","tag-windows-server-2008-r2","tag-wsus"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n