Eguibar - Instant Hyper-V server virtualization starter: an intuitive guide to learning Virtualization with Hyper-V

Vicente Rodriguez Eguibar is the founder of Eguibar Information Technology S.L. Company, which is dedicated to providing IT consultancy and services, focusing on corporate directories, networking, virtualization, migration, and IT optimization. He has been a director of this company for the last four years, providing services and solutions to Fortune 500 international companies. He has traveled to several countries in Asia, Europe, and America supervising and managing projects for different companies.

His technical background started in 1993 as an IT trainer. He has also worked in many different positions as a system operator, technical project manager, and senior consultant for many international companies. Back in Mexico, where he was born, he was certified by Microsoft as a Product Specialist, being one of the first people to obtain this certification in Mexico.

At the beginning in Mxico, he administered and managed computer systems for several industrial companies in the automotive sector. Following his performance in Mexico, he was required by the CIO office to design and manage the international communication network and corporate directory for their company. After managing this position for three years, he was hired by a German car manufacturing company to design the global corporate directory, being in this position for three years. When the German car manufacturing company sold the IT section to a German telecommunications company, Rodriguez Eguibar was appointed to design IT Architecture Infrastructures for external customer companies and government agencies. His last position before creating his own company was for an international call center corporation, where he was in charge of designing, deploying, and migrating to the corporate directory, messaging system, and virtualization strategy.

He was married in Mexico to Adriana Sainz 14 years ago; since 2001, he lives in Spain.

Thanks to my lovely wife Adriana, who has an inexhaustible patience born of love (and over 18 years of "dating"), even if I am using our family time for writing. To our parents, Angeles, Geo, Vicente, and Luis and our brothers Claudia and Luis A. because of their warm affection and close support, even though they are separated by a distance of 10,000 km. Special mention to Luis for his exhaustive comprehension of foreign languages, including the "IT for novices" language. And to all my friends and colleagues, who were always asking how I was doing. Thank you all!

David Luu is a Quality Assurance Engineer, Software Developer, Author, and Technical Writer.

His professional experience and interests include working with technologies such as virtualization, networking, Microsoft Windows, .NET, cloud computing, and more. By trade, David primarily tests software, products, and services, with an occasional side of software development, documentation review, and technical writing/editing tossed in.

He also participates in open source software, and has released a .NET library to facilitate programmatically managing Hyper-V virtual machines; this library can be found at http://code.google.com/p/robotframework-hypervlibrary/.

Special thanks to Sneha Modi and Ameya Sawant of Packt Publishing for providing this opportunity for me to be a reviewer of this book.