Apolinario V.R. - Learning Hyper-V

Vincius R. Apolinrio is a professional with more than 13 years of experience in information technology. He has worked with Microsoft and in other industries, managing servers and environments of small, medium, and large companies. With a strong background in managing servers for directory services and client infrastructure, he has focused on virtualization and data center management in recent years.

Vincius is a Microsoft Certified Trainer and system engineer on Windows Server 2012 and Private Cloud. Besides this, he holds a cloud computing certification from EXIN and teaches this technology. He also holds a certification of Extension Course in Product Marketing Manager by Fundao Getlio Vargas (FGV). His last achievement was becoming a VMware Certified Associate and a VMware Certified Professional for data center virtualization.

Currently, Vincius works for Microsoft in Brazil as a technical evangelist, presenting new technologies on Windows Server, Hyper-V, System Center, and Microsoft Azure to customers. Prior to this book, he reviewed Hyper-V Cookbook and Hyper-V Cluster Design .

I would like to start by thanking my wife. As always, her support and understanding were essential in helping me accomplish this. Thank you, little girl, for always being by my side and for all the love.

I thank my manager, Danilo Bordini, for supporting this project, for all the tasks I have in my current role, and for supporting the rest of my career. Thanks to my coworker and friend Fabio Hara for all the knowledge shared over the time we have worked together.

I would also like to thank my great friend Gilson Banin, who has always helped me in my career and has always been an inspiring professional for me and many others.

Additional thanks to Rafael Bernardes and Leandro Carvalho, the reviewers of this book and excellent professionals, for accepting the challenge and all the feedback!

Rafael Bernardes is the founder of CooperaTI, one of the most recognized IT portals in Brazil. He is well-known personality and holds recognitions by Microsoft with the MVP, MiVP, and TechNet IT Hero titles.

Rafael also holds an MCSE (Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert) certification in Private Cloud as well as the most recent cloud and virtualization certifications.

First, I must thank my wife, Renata. Without her support, I wouldn't have been the professional I am today. I would like to thank Vincius R. Apolinrio for the excellent challenge of contributing to the technical review of this book. The book is awesome and goes straight to the point. I recommend it to everybody.

Leandro Carvalho is a well-known virtualization specialist, who writes and presents sessions on virtualization and cloud computing. He works as a system engineer on Microsoft solutions, such as Windows Server, Hyper-V, App-V, VDI, System Center, Exchange, Lync Server, SharePoint, Project Server, security, and client systems. He also helps the community frequently with articles, forums, videos, and lectures about his passionMicrosoft virtualization. Leandro has the certifications of Certified Ethical Hacker, MCP, MCSA+M+S, MCSE+S, MCTS, MCITP, MCT, and MVP. In 2009, he received the Trainer of the Year award from MCT Awards, Latin America. He has won the Microsoft MVP award as a virtualization specialist every year since 2010. He has also worked on