Edvaldo Alessandro Cardoso - System Center 2016 Virtual Machine Manager Cookbook,: Design, configure, and manage an efficient virtual infrastructure with VMM in System Center 2016, 3rd Edition

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Roman Levchenko is a Microsoft MVP, VMware vExpert, and systems architect working for a leading international IT integrator. He focuses mainly on Microsoft technologies, including Windows Server, System Center, PowerShell, and Azure. Furthermore, he is certified as Microsoft MCSE, MCSA, MCS, MCITP, and VMware VCP6-DCV. As a technical reviewer, he has also participated in the making of some recent and well-known books by Manning. He runs his own blog, and you can follow him on Twitter at @rlevchenko to keep in touch and receive the latest news.

Edvaldo Alessandro Cardoso is a former Microsoft MVP, international speaker, author, evangelist, and a subject matter expert in cloud, virtualization, management, and identity, working for Microsoft as a secure infrastructure architect for Asia Pacific, Greater China, India, and Japan.

He has more than 27 years of experience in the IT industry working with LBDMs, building trust, demonstrating business value, solving complex business problems, and transforming business strategy into technology utilizing existing and innovative technologies. He is a reviewer on this book.

Tomica Kaniski is a Microsoft MVP for Cloud and Datacenter Management (since 2010). He is fully engaged with (but not limited to) Microsoft products and technologies. In his spare time, he plays the bass guitar and also likes to read and travel. He currently works in the telecommunications industry for VIPnet d.o.o. in Croatia (A1 Telekom Austria Group/Amrica Mvil company).

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System Center 2016 is a comprehensive IT infrastructure, virtualization, and cloud management platform. With System Center 2016, you can easily and efficiently deploy, manage, and monitor a virtualized infrastructure, services, and applications across multiple hypervisors, as well as public and private cloud infrastructures, to deliver flexible and cost-effective IT services for your business.

This book has plenty of recipes to help you design, plan, and improve Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) deployment; integrate and manage the fabric (compute, storage, network controller, gateway, and networking), services, and resources; deploy different types of clusters; configure integration with the operations manager and Windows Azure Pack; and carry out vital tasks quickly and easily.

This book is essentially intended at system engineers, solution architects, administrators and anyone who wants to learn and master VMM 2016. If you are not familiar with VMM, don't worry. Start from the beginning, and the book will also help you to get insight into the virtualization platform, its management, and other techniques related to the private cloud.