Savill - Mastering Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V

John Savill

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For my wife, Julie, and my children,
Abby, Ben, and Kevin. My everythings.

I could not have written this book without the help and support of many people. First I need to thank my wife, Julie, for putting up with me for being busier than usual the last six months and for picking up the slack as alwaysand for always supporting the crazy things I want to do. My children, Abby, Ben, and Kevin, always make all the work worthwhile; they can turn the worst, most tiring day into a good one with a smile and a laugh.

Of course, the book wouldnt be possible at all without the Wiley team: senior acquisitions editor Kenyon Brown, development editor Gary Schwartz, production editor Christine OConnor, copy editor Sharon Wilkey, and proofreader Nancy Carrasco.

Many people have helped me over the years with encouragement and technical knowledge, and this book is the sum of that. The following people helped out on specific aspects of this book, and I want to thank them and give them the credit they deserve for helping make this book as good as possible (if Ive missed anyone, Im truly sorry): Theo Thompson, Mathew John, Jake Oshins, Chris Huybregts, Neil Peterson, Jim Wooldridge, Steven Ekren, Michael Gray, Darren Moss, Claus Joergensen, Dean Wells, Nir Ben Zvi, Andrew Mason, Jian Yan, Simon Gurevich, Shivam Garg, Elden Christensen, Jason Messer, Taylor Brown, Manish Jha, Shon Shah, Pradeep Reddy, Don Stanwyck, Greg Cusanza, Paul Kimbel, Scott Willwerth, and Tim Aranki.

John Savill is a technical specialist who focuses on Microsoft core infrastructure technologies including Windows, HyperV, System Center, and anything that does something cool. He has been working with Microsoft technologies for 20 years. He is the creator of the highly popular NTFAQ.com website and a senior contributing editor for Windows IT Pro magazine. He has written seven previous books covering Windows, Azure, HyperV, and advanced Active Directory architecture. When he is not writing books, he writes magazine articles and white papers; creates many technology videos, which are available on his YouTube channel, www.youtube.com/ntfaqguy; and presents online and at industryleading events, including TechEd, Ignite, and Windows Connections. When he was writing this book, he had just completed running his annual series of Master Classes, which include classes on Azure, HyperV, PowerShell, and the complete Microsoft stack. John also has online courses on Pluralsight and OReilly.

Outside technology, John enjoys cardio and weight training. In fact, while writing this book, he was training for his third full Ironman triathlon in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

John tries to update his blog at www.savilltech.com/blog with the latest news of what he is working on and also tweets at @NTFAQGuy.

The book you are holding is the result of 20 years of experience in the IT world and over 15 years of virtualization experience that started with VMware and includes Virtual PC and now HyperV. My goal for this book is simple: to help you become knowledgeable and effective when it comes to architecting and managing a HyperVbased virtual environment. This means not only understanding how HyperV works and its capabilities, but also knowing when to leverage other technologies to provide the most complete and optimal solution. That means leveraging System Center and Microsoft Azure, which I also cover because they relate to HyperV. I also dive into some key technologies of Windows Server that bring benefits to HyperV.