Foreword

After many years and many missteps, Microsoft has given us a top-quality server virtualization tool, Hyper-V Server. It's about time, then, for us Windows types to understand it. After all, if you already have Windows Server 2008 or 2008 R2, then Hyper-V is essentially free and in the box, so why not take it through its paces and see what it can do for you?

In my life as a technologist, I've been lucky enough to have seen great changes in the computer business. The 1970s brought us personal computers, and the 1980s brought us operating systems and useful applications for those computers. The 1990s brought an explosion of networking and internetworking, which led to another explosion: a massive increase in the number of computers needed ...

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