Preface
Thank you for purchasing Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V Cookbook – Second Edition. The book you are holding is the result of 15 years of experience in the IT world and over 10 years of virtualization experience that started with Microsoft Virtual Server 2005, Virtual PC, and now Hyper-V. Virtualization is the keystone of any modern data center.
Hyper-V is a mature and widely adopted virtualization platform that is designed to work with both Windows and Unix/Linux virtual machines. In addition to being used by many of the largest companies in the world, Hyper-V powers Microsoft Azure public cloud, which is one of the largest cloud services in the world, and it powers Microsoft Azure Stack for on-premises and private cloud deployment including the support for both enterprise and service providers.
Our aim in this book is to provide you with the information you need to be immediately effective in deploying, migrating, and administering Hyper-V environments.
We hope that you'll get as much from reading this book as we did from writing it. Please be sure to post any questions, comments, or suggestions you have about the book in the Author Online forum. Your feedback is important to us in order to develop the best book possible in the future.
- Charbel Nemnom
- Patrick Lownds