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This book is designed to be a tutorial in Hyper-V administration.
As such, i recommend that you read the chapters in order. You’ll probably find yourself referring to earlier chapters, as you work through the book. When you’ve finished the book, you may find yourself referring to a chapter, to help solve a problem. That’s fine. It’s your book!
This book takes a task-oriented approach to Hyper-V management, and as such, you will be able to immediately apply some of the knowledge gained in the day-to-day administration of Hyper-V.
While you may feel comfortable conducting some of these tasks. I have gone out of my way to instruct you as to which tasks require extra care and attention. When it comes to infrastructure management tasks and virtualization, there may be times when you are working with some very sensitive items, such as storage, and any misconfiguration and/ or incorrect setting could be potentially disastrous. I am not trying to scare you, just pointing out the actual pitfalls.
Is This Book for You?
In short, this text is designed to take a junior IT professional, who knows nothing about Hyper-V or virtualization, and bring him or her to competency.
In a few more words, one constant in the world of IT is that things are always changing. Businesses must stay competitive, which means a need for more efficiency. Many are turning to virtualization as one of these efficiencies.
Sachin Srivastava
Sachin Srivastava is based in India and currently has the distinct pleasure of acting as a Technical Evangelist for a MNC. Sachin is heavily involved in the IT community, in several different ways, including webinars, blogging, and public speaking. Overall, Sachin has spent the last 15+ years in IT, with areas of focus including virtualization, cloud services, VMware, Oracle Apps, Oracle DB, and the Microsoft server stack, with an emphasis on Hyper-V and clustering. Sachin spends a great deal of time working with the IT community as one of Microsoft’s cloud and datacenter management Most Valued Professionals (MVPs). Sachin has a passion for technology and always enjoys talking about tech with peers, customers, and fellow IT pros over a cup of coffee or a cold beer.
