Hyper-V is Microsoft’s server virtualization technology built-in to Windows Server 2008. Virtual Machine Manager 2008 is a System Center add-on that helps organizations better manage their virtual guest images, delegate administration and management, and even extract virtual images from existing physical and virtual servers. This book, Hyper-V Unleashed, was written by authors Rand Morimoto and Jeff Guillet who have worked with Hyper-V and VMM/2008 for well over a year prior to the formal product release. Dozens of organizations trusted Hyper-V enough to put it into full production environments before formal product release.
This book covers:
· Assessment of the resource demands of existing physical servers
· Analysis of the assessment data to determine the right size host servers to acquire
· Architecture planning and design
· Step-by-step hands-on assistance
· Disaster recovery steps for recovering Exchange
About the Author
Rand Morimoto, Ph.D., MCSE, CISSP, has been in the computer industry for more than 30 years and has authored, co-authored, or been a contributing writer for dozens of bestselling books on Windows 2008, Exchange 2007, Security, BizTalk Server, and remote and mobile computing. Rand is the president of Convergent Computing, an IT consulting firm in the San Francisco Bay Area that was one of the key early adopter program partners with Microsoft implementing beta versions of Windows Server 2008 in production environments over 3 years before the product release. Rand has spoken at more than 50 conferences and conventions around the world in the past year on tips, tricks, and best practices on planning, migrating, and implementing Windows 2008 Hyper-V and System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008.
Jeff Guillet, MCITP, MCSE, CISSP, has been in the computer industry for more than 25 years and has been a contributing writer and technical editor for several books on Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003, Exchange 2007, and Exchange 2003. Jeff is a senior consultant for Convergent Computing and participates in many early adopter beta programs. Jeff holds Charter MCITP: Enterprise Administrator and MCITP: Enterprise Messaging Administrator certifications for Windows Server 2008 and has maintained MCSE certifications since 1999. He maintains a popular technical blog at www.expta.com.