Gohar Ahmed - Implementing Citrix XenServer quickstarter

Gohar Ahmed is an all round expert from Lahore, Pakistan. He works with different technologies related to virtualization, networking, system securities, server-side application development, and on top of all deals with Voice Over IP technologies and unified communication protocols using SIP protocol on both open source and proprietary software and hardware. Aside from keyboard, screen, and servers, he loves to do painting and gardening. Gohar maintains his blog at http://saevolgo.blogspot.com.

I'd like to thank my parents, Lall Khan Nasir (late) and Sajida Shaheen, who encouraged me through all the hurdles and struggles in life. My sweet wife Sairah, who constantly reminded and helped me to publish this book, deserves all my love and gratitude. I'd like to mention my dear colleagues, Abdul Basit, Salman, Shahzad, Haroon, and Imran Iqbal, who provided me with their possible support in writing this book.

Ferdinand Feenstra is a Citrix Certified Architect and senior specialist for Microsoft environments, based in The Netherlands. He is working in the IT branch since 1998 and has experience in many complex environments with different customers in different functions.

His experience is categorized in build and design Citrix environments, implementations and migrations projects, and consultancy projects. Since he started working with Citrix in 2004, a new world of solutions, working on any device combined with a great user experience, has come his way. This makes IT more dynamic and easier to adapt for users. You can find his blog at www.CitrixGuru.net or check his tweets on Twitter, @f_feenstra.

This is his third review. He has already reviewed the books Citrix XenServer 6.0 Administration Essential Guide , Packt Publishing and Citrix XenDesktop 5.6 Cookbook , Packt Publishing .

Ferdinand works for Icento. Icento is a Citrix Partner Solution Advisor with the Silver status. Icento is also a V-Alliance member; the virtualization collaboration between Microsoft and Citrix. Icento is located in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, and delivers solutions for the desktop, unified communications, and virtualization and systems management. Icento delivers state-of-the-art ICT solutions for a broad set of international customers. You can find more information at www.icento.nl.

Daniele Tosatto is a senior systems engineer based in Venice, Italy. He is a Microsoft Certified IT Professional, Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist, Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert, Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate, and Citrix Certified Administrator, and has been working with Microsoft products since 2000 as a system administrator. In February 2008, he started working for the first Italian Citrix Platinum Partner. He is focused on Active Directory, application virtualization and delivery, and IT infrastructure management.

Daniele is the author of Citrix XenServer 6.0 Administration Essential Guide , Packt Publishing .

Visit his blog at www.danieletosatto.com.

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Preface

Virtualization has made a big name in today's technologies and it is a growing market for vendors as well as engineers. The main concept behind this book is to make anyone with basic IT administrative skills a virtualization-ready administrator. This book mainly covers the Citrix XenServer and virtualization concepts in a balanced mode. Readers can go through the entire book and either theoretically know what to do and how to start with virtualization using XenServer or can start creating their own virtualization environment following the examples in this book. The content and language of the book has been kept as simple as possible so that users can follow and understand easily.

What this book covers

, Getting to Know Xen , covers basic conceptual knowledge about the virtualization, brief history of XenServer, and introduction to Xen and XenServer.