Introduction

The book you are holding is the result of 20 years of experience in the IT world and over 15 years of virtualization experience that started with VMware and includes Virtual PC and now Hyper-V. My goal for this book is simple: to help you become knowledgeable and effective when it comes to architecting and managing a Hyper-V–based virtual environment. This means understanding how Hyper-V works and its capabilities, but it also means knowing when to leverage other technologies to provide the most complete and optimal solution. That means leveraging System Center and Windows Azure, which I also cover because they relate to Hyper-V. I also dive into some key technologies of Windows Server where they bring benefit to Hyper-V.

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