Patch standalone Hyper V and the VMs present in it

Hi All,
We have a 10 Hyper V host (newly added) and each host containing about 8VMs.
we have monthly patching and we need to make sure that the patches gets applied to the host and the VMs.
This is the first time I would be working on patching the Hyper V host. The version we use is :
Hyper-V Manager
Microsoft Corporation
Version: 6.1.7601.17514
could someone please let me know what are the best practices and consideration need to be taken care for the patching?
I don't think we have option to migrate the VMs to the other host...do we?
we have downtime of about 8hours for the patching.
Thanks,
S.Mani

To make life much easier for you, you should consider building your Hyper-V hosts into a cluster. Your software version says you have 2008 so you don't have the ability introduced in 2012 to perform live migration between standalone systems.
So you have to cluster them to be able to live migrate. Then it is a simple matter of live migrating the VMs to another node, patch/reboot one of the host nodes, rinse and repeat. Microsoft has also introduced cluster aware updating in 2012, making
the patching all the easier within a cluster environment. It can actually automate the process.
Introducing Windows Server Update Services into the environment also provides a level of management for getting patches to the servers ahead of time. I have my lab set up to download patches but not apply them. Then when I want to, I run a quick
update, only requiring an outage for the amount of time it takes to reboot a system. You can set up your VMs to be on a different patch cycle than the hosts, or you can go through and do them all at once.
. : | : . : | : . tim

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