Preface

The world of virtualization continues to expand, and the reach of Microsoft's Hyper-V hypervisor continues to expand with it. This book seeks to reach beyond simple, single-host hypervisor deployment, and provide guidance on clustering hosts together for redundancy, performance, and more thorough utilization of resources.

A design goal of this book is to avoid imposing the author's personal preferences, whether through passive (I always/I never) or aggressive (you must/you should not) sentences. The goal of this book is to provide you with information about Hyper-V, expose you to real-world pros and cons of decisions, and allow you to apply your own intelligence to design a system that meets your unique needs.