Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter

Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter (MVMC) is a Microsoft-supported, stand-alone solution to convert virtual machines and disks from VMware hosts to Hyper-V hosts and Windows Azure.

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=42497

Screen captures of the initial installation of Hyper-V 2012 R2

Below are some screen captures of the initial installation of Hyper-V 2012 R2.

Capacity Planner for Hyper-V Replica

The Capacity Planner for Hyper-V Replica guides the IT administrator to design the server, storage and network infrastructure which is required to successfully deploy Hyper-V Replica.

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=39057

Corefig

Corefig is a PowerShell-based GUI tool to configure the 2012 releases of Server Core and Hyper-V Server.

http://corefig.codeplex.com/

PoSHStats for Hyper-V

PoSHStats is the first free and open source reporting tool of Hyper-V Resource Metering. PoSHStats runs on your Hyper-V server to get detailed statistics like CPU, Memory, Disk and Bandwidth usage of your virtual machines. It's possible to get daily, weekly, monthly usage statistics of Virtual Machines. Also PoSHStats gets hourly performance data of your Hyper-V host to monitor your virtualization environment.

http://www.poshstats.net/

StarWind V2V Converter

StarWind Converter is a free downloadable V2V conversion tool for virtual machines.  You can use it to convert VMDK to VHD files and VHD to VMDK.  It is a sector by sector copy operation from one format to the other. It does not modify the source image and will leave it so you can continue to use it.

http://www.starwindsoftware.com/converter

How to determine if a CPU supports SLAT

To use Hyper-V within Windows 8, the CPU must support SLAT.

Second Level Address Translation (SLAT) is a technology introduced in both Intel and AMD flavors of processors.  Both companies call their version of the technology different names:   Intel’s version is called EPT(Extended Page Tables) and AMD calls theirs RVI (Rapid Virtualization Indexing).  Intel introduced Extended Page Tables in its processors that were built on the Nehalem architecture, while AMD only introduced RVI in their third generation of Opteron processors codenamed Barcelona.

Hyper-V uses SLAT to perform more VM memory management functions and reduce the overhead of translating guest physical addresses to real physical addresses. By doing this, Hypervisor CPU time is significantly reduced, and more memory is saved for each VM.

To determine if a CPU supports SLAT, download the CoreInfo utility from Sysinternals at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/cc835722.  Unzip the application and use the –v switch option within an elevated prompt.  If the processor does not support SLAT, dashs will be present in the EPT or NPT rows.

5nine Manager for Hyper-V

5nine Manager for Hyper-V, Free Edition, provides a local Graphical User Interface to Microsoft Hyper-V R2 server. It supports Hyper-V technology on Full and Core installations of Windows Server 2008 R2, as well as on Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2, which is the Microsoft's standalone free Hypervisor. You can use it when Microsoft SCVMM, or even Hyper-V Manager are not available for Core or Free versions of Server 2008 R2. It also provides Value-Add functions, such as advanced network bindings, hardware profiling and monitoring for both Free/Core and Full Hyper-V installations.

http://www.5nine.com/5nine-manager-for-hyper-v-free.aspx

List of utilities for Hyper-V

• Wim2VHD
  Creates a Windows Server 2008/Vista/Win7 VHD from media in 5 minutes.
  
• VHDtool
  Command-line tool for VHD manipulation including instant creation of large fixed-size VHDs
  
• Hyper-V PowerShell library
  PowerShell Library for Hyper-V, simplify Hyper-V scripting
  
• CoreConfigurator
  Server Core/Hyper-V Server configuration interface
  
• Hvremote
  Configures servers and clients for remote management of Hyper-V in both workgroup and domain environments
  
• nvspbind
  Tool for modifying network bindings from the command line
  
• nvspscrub
  Tool for removing Hyper-V Virtual Networking Configuration from the parent partition
  
• BootfromUSB-HVS
  Simplify the creation of bootable Hyper-V Server USB drives
  
• VM Migration Test Wizard
  Discovers which hosts need the "Enable Processor compat" option for Live Migration