Aidan Finn - Microsoft Private Cloud Computing

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To my family and friends, who make this possible

Aidan Finn

I owe big gratitude to my family: my wife Marijcke and our three sons. They have certainly missed me while I've been working on the book. However, they were very supportive and asked me about the progress of my book. I dedicate this book to them.

Hans Vredevoort

I would like to dedicate this book to my family and friends, but most of all to my wife Lisa, and our precious children.

Patrick Lownds

To my parents, who started me on this journey, and to all the amazing people in my life

Damian Flynn

Acknowledgments

A project like this is possible only with the help of family, friends, and colleagues. I'd like to thank them; in particular, the editors at Wiley and Sybex, my coauthors Patrick, Hans, and Damian, and our fellow MVP, Kristian Nese, who was the technical reviewer of this book.

Aidan Finn

When Aidan Finn told me he was planning a new book on the subject of the Microsoft private cloud with several other MVPs, it took me only 10 seconds to quickly consider and say YES! Of course, I had no idea what it would mean in terms of time and effort, but this was just something I had to dono matter what happened.

Working with Aidan Finn, Patrick Lownds, and Damian Flynn, three highly respected MVPs in the world of Hyper-V and Microsoft System Center, turned out to be a fantastic experience. I am very proud of delivering this Microsoft private-cloud computing book together with them, acknowledging their deep technical knowledge and real-world experience. In fact, a book with such diverse topics could probably not have been written by only one author. Each and every one donated a significant piece of the puzzle on how to effectively build a Microsoft Private Cloud. Nevertheless, we had to make concessions on what to cover and what to ignore. If we would've had the time and space, the number of pages could have easily doubled.

A special thank-you goes to the editors of Wiley and Sybex for their expert advice. Likewise, big thanks go to Kristian Nese, a very enthusiastic and knowledgeable MVP in the System Center and Private Cloud arena. He kindly accepted our request to review the hundreds of pages we submitted.

I really couldn't have written this book without the generous and supportive people of XS4ALL, a leading ISP in the Netherlands, and in particular Joey Hofstede and Alexander Rijnbeek. We were given access to their research network, HP blade servers, HP storage, and HP Virtual Connect, including plenty of processor, memory, network, and storage resources for us to build a fantastic Microsoft Private Cloud.