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Microsoft Virtualization Secrets
Unbeatable advice and expert tips for evaluating, designing, and deploying virtualization solutionsIf you're an IT professional, you know that virtualization is essential in today's computer infrastructures. This valuable reference is your key to all things Microsoft virtualization. Written by a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP), it breaks down all the various technologies, what they mean to your organization in terms of saving money and solving problems, and how to design and deploy various solutions effectively.
You'll find invaluable tips and information on such topics as Hyper-V, the changes that Windows 8 brings, private cloud scenarios, and more.Written by well-known 11-time Microsoft MVP, Windows expert, and Microsoft insider, John Savill Provides practical advice and expert insights on understanding, evaluating, designing, and deploying virtualization solutions Keeps you up to date with how Windows 8 and Windows Server "8" affect your virtualization processes Covers virtualization in all its forms--machine, application, and user Explores the private cloud and public cloud and what they mean to your organization Focuses on Microsoft solutions such as Hyper-V, but also delves into Citrix, Quest software, AppSense, and other Microsoft partner solutions Discusses bringing your own device requirements through VDI and session virtualization and which one is right Features video demonstrations and walkthroughs of some processes
"Microsoft Virtualization Secrets" is like having a built-in Microsoft expert on hand to help you avoid mistakes and save time!
You'll find invaluable tips and information on such topics as Hyper-V, the changes that Windows 8 brings, private cloud scenarios, and more.Written by well-known 11-time Microsoft MVP, Windows expert, and Microsoft insider, John Savill Provides practical advice and expert insights on understanding, evaluating, designing, and deploying virtualization solutions Keeps you up to date with how Windows 8 and Windows Server "8" affect your virtualization processes Covers virtualization in all its forms--machine, application, and user Explores the private cloud and public cloud and what they mean to your organization Focuses on Microsoft solutions such as Hyper-V, but also delves into Citrix, Quest software, AppSense, and other Microsoft partner solutions Discusses bringing your own device requirements through VDI and session virtualization and which one is right Features video demonstrations and walkthroughs of some processes
"Microsoft Virtualization Secrets" is like having a built-in Microsoft expert on hand to help you avoid mistakes and save time!
552 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 2012
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November 29, 2022
This is a historical tour-de-force, hurling the reader back into the bygone era of 2012, when Windows 8 was a thing. Characterisation lacked a little, and I felt the descriptions were somewhat didactic and lacking in metaphor, but the whole concept of this virtualised environment was well thought out, and you really felt like the author knew what he was talking about. This was no Dan Brown novel. In this story, the author was clearly an expert in the field he described.
The secrets, as they unfolded, were revealing and yet so cleverly done that you felt this was information everyone must know. I would only criticise it for having so many clever secrets but no grand reveal at the end. Despite all the elegant world building, there was no sudden reversal, no grand climax, not discovery that Windows is just Linux all the way down. Maybe the author's next book will build on this excellent start.
The secrets, as they unfolded, were revealing and yet so cleverly done that you felt this was information everyone must know. I would only criticise it for having so many clever secrets but no grand reveal at the end. Despite all the elegant world building, there was no sudden reversal, no grand climax, not discovery that Windows is just Linux all the way down. Maybe the author's next book will build on this excellent start.
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