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The Microsoft Virtualization Team Blog has a post on the Top 5 things to know about Hyper-V by a guest author. The Guest author is a Microsoft MVP of Virtual Machine Technology based in Amsterdam and has extensive Experience with VMWare and Microsoft Virtualization technologies. The basics are:

1. Understand the hypervisor model and performance consequences
2. Understand the use of snapshots
3. How to use Quick Migration
4. Consider System Center Virtual Machine Manager
5. Hyper-V can run on Server Core Installation

You can see the top 5 list with extensive explanations here: http://blogs.technet.com/virtualization/archive/2008/07/01/Top-5-things-to-know-about-Hyper_2D00_V.aspx