Book description
Unbeatable advice and expert tips for evaluating, designing, and deploying virtualization solutions
If you're an IT professional, you know that virtualization is essential in today's computer infrastructures. This valuable reference is your key to all things Microsoft virtualization. Written by a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP), it breaks down all the various technologies, what they mean to your organization in terms of saving money and solving problems, and how to design and deploy various solutions effectively.
You'll find invaluable tips and information on such topics as Hyper-V, the changes that Windows 8 brings, private cloud scenarios, and more.
Written by well-known 11-time Microsoft MVP, Windows expert, and Microsoft insider, John Savill
Provides practical advice and expert insights on understanding, evaluating, designing, and deploying virtualization solutions
Keeps you up to date with how Windows 8 and Windows Server "8" affect your virtualization processes
Covers virtualization in all its forms--machine, application, and user
Explores the private cloud and public cloud and what they mean to your organization
Focuses on Microsoft solutions such as Hyper-V, but also delves into Citrix, Quest software, AppSense, and other Microsoft partner solutions
Discusses bringing your own device requirements through VDI and session virtualization and which one is right
Features video demonstrations and walkthroughs of some processes
Microsoft Virtualization Secrets is like having a built-in Microsoft expert on hand to help you avoid mistakes and save time!
Table of contents
- Cover
- Chapter 1: Understanding Virtualization
- Chapter 2: Understanding Windows 7 and 8 Client OS Key Technologies
- Chapter 3: Virtualizing Client Operating Systems
- Chapter 4: Virtualizing Desktop Applications
- Chapter 5: Virtualizing User Data
- Chapter 6: Virtualizing User Profiles and Settings
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Chapter 7: Using Session Virtualization
- Embracing Retro Virtualization: Why an Old Form of Virtualization Is Still One of the Best
- Utilizing the Capabilities of Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP)
- Using Remote Desktop Services (RDS) in Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 8
- Using RDS with Other Virtualization Technologies
- Third-Party Presentation Solutions for Remote Desktop Virtualization
- Summary
- Chapter 8: Working with Hyper-V
- Chapter 9: Using System Center Virtual Machine Manager
- Chapter 10: Implementing a Private Cloud
- Chapter 11: Architecting a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
- Chapter 12: Accessing the Desktop and Datacenter from Anywhere and Anything
- Chapter 13: Optimizing the Desktop and Datacenter Infrastructure
- Chapter 14: Virtualizing with the Microsoft Public Cloud
- Chapter 15: The Best of the Rest of Windows Server 2012
- Introduction
Product information
- Title: Microsoft Virtualization Secrets
- Author(s):
- Release date: July 2012
- Publisher(s): Wiley
- ISBN: 9781118293164
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