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To my family and friends, who have made this possible by helping and supporting me over the years. —Aidan Finn
I would like to dedicate this book to my family, friends, colleagues, and most of all to my wife, Lisa, and our precious children. —Patrick Lownds
For my family, friends, and colleagues who have been supporting and inspiring me all the time. —Michel Luescher
This book is dedicated to my brilliant and beautiful wife, Breege. She has been my inspiration, my motivation, and my rock. —Damian Flynn
Acknowledgments
When I first thought about writing this book back in 2011, I thought it might be something that I could do alone over a short period. But then we started to learn how much had changed in Windows Server 2012, and how much bigger Hyper-V had become. I knew that I would need a team of experts to work with on this project. Patrick Lownds, Michel Luescher, Damian Flynn, and Hans Vredevoort were the best people for the job. Luckily, they were willing to sign up for the months of hard work that would be required to learn this new version of Windows Server 2012 and Hyper-V, do the research, annoy the Microsoft project managers, and reach out to other members of the community. Thank you to my coauthors, Patrick, Michel, and Damian, for the hard work that you have done over the past few months; I have learned a lot from each of you during this endeavor. When it came to picking a technical reviewer, there was one unanimous choice, and that was Hans, a respected expert in Hyper-V and System Center. Hans’ name might not be on the cover, but his input can be found in every chapter. Thank you (again) Hans, for taking the time to minimize our mistakes.
Patrick, Damian, and Hans are Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs) like myself. The MVP program is a network of experts in various technologies. There are many benefits to achieving this award from Microsoft, but one of the best is the opportunity to meet those experts. Many of these people helped with this project and you’ll see just some of their names in these acknowledgments.
Starting to write a book on a product that is still being developed is quite a challenge. There is little documentation, and the target keeps moving. Many people helped me during this endeavor. Who would think that a person who barely passed lower-grade English when he finished school could go on to have his name on the covers of five technical books? Mark Minasi (MVP) is the man I have to thank (or is it blame?) for getting me into writing books. Mark once again was there to help when I needed some information on BitLocker. Jeff Wouters, a consultant in the Netherlands, loves a PowerShell challenge. Jeff got a nice challenge when a PowerShell “noob” asked for help. Thanks to Jeff, I figured out some things and was able to give the reader some better real-world solutions to common problems. If you’re searching for information on Windows Server 2012 storage, there’s a good chance that you will come across Didier Van Hoye (aka Workinghardinit). Didier is a fellow Virtual Machine (Hyper-V) MVP and has been there to answer quick or complex questions. Brian Ehlert (MVP) is an important contributor on the TechNet Hyper-V forum and is an interesting person to talk to for alternative points of view. Brian helped me see the forest for the trees a number of times. We have a great Hyper-V MVP community in Europe; Carsten Rachfahl found some functionality that we weren’t aware of and helped us understand it. A new guy on the MVP scene is Thomas Maurer, and his blog posts were useful in understanding some features.
Thanks to the MVP program, we gain access to some of the people who make the products we work with and write about. Numerous Microsoft program managers answered questions or explained features to me. Ben Armstrong (aka the Virtual PC Guy) leads the way in Virtual Machine expertise, has answered many questions for us as a group, provides great information on his blog, and has been a huge resource for us. Thanks too to Senthil Rajaram for doing his best to explain 4K sector support to me; any mistakes here are mine! Charley Wen, John Howard, and Don Stanwyck all helped me come to grips with the massive amount of change in Windows Server networking. Joydeep Buragohain also provided me with great information on Windows Server Backup. We Hyper-V folks rely on Failover Clustering, and we also had great help from their program managers, with Rob Hindman and Elden Christensen leading the way. Thanks to all for your patience, and I hope I have reproduced your information correctly.
I would also like to thank MicroWarehouse, my employer, for the flexibility to allow me to work on projects like this book. The opportunity that I have to learn and to share in my job is quite unique. I work with some of the best customer-focused experts around, and I’ve learned quite a bit from them.
Of course, the book wouldn’t be possible at all without the Sybex team. This book kept growing, and there was a lot more work than originally estimated. Pete Gaughan, the acquisitions and developmental editor, David Clark, Eric Charbonneau, and a whole team of editors made this possible. In particular, I want to pay special thanks to Mariann Barsolo, who believed in this project from day 1, and made a huge effort to get things moving.
My family are the ones who made everything possible. Thank you to my mom, dad, and sister for the encouragement and help, in good times and bad. From the first moment, I was encouraged to learn, to question why and how, to think independently, and to eventually become a pain in the backside for some! Without my family, I would not be writing these acknowledgments.
—Aidan Finn
Third time lucky! It takes personal commitment and dedication to write a book, but it takes a lot of support as well. It would not be possible without help from family, friends, and colleagues. I would like to thank my wife, Lisa, for helping to keep everything together, and my children for being especially patient. A special thanks to the editors at Sybex for taking on this book project and for making the dream a reality; my coauthors, Aidan, Damian, and Michel; plus our technical reviewer, Hans. Finally, I would like to thank a number of people for helping me along the way: Ben Armstrong, Patrick Lang, Rob Hindman, Mallikarjun Chadalapaka, Subhasish Bhattacharya, Jose Barreto, and Allison Hope.
—Patrick Lownds
I never thought that I would write a book, as I’m not a big fan of reading books. But when Aidan and Patrick asked me in early 2012 if I would think about providing a few chapters on a Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V book, I couldn’t resist. Working with this excellent team of knowledgeable experts was a great experience that I didn’t want to miss, and it was also an honor to be part of it. Thank you guys for this great opportunity!
It was quite a challenge writing a book on a product that is still under development. Therefore, I would like to express my special thanks to the great people who took time out from their busy schedules to share their experience, discuss features, or give me very good advice for this book. A big thank you goes to the following people: Nigel Cain, Paul Despe, Ronny Frehner, Florian Frommherz, Michael Gray, Asaf Kuper, Thomas Roettinger, Cristian Edwards Sabathe, Jian Yan, and Joel Yoker.
Hans Vredevoort deserves a very special thanks for all the great feedback provided and the interesting discussions we had. Of course I also would like to thank the Sybex team for their support and patience. Even though I squirmed when I received your status mails telling me I missed another deadline, you helped me keep pushing to make this all happen.
And last but certainly not least, thanks a lot, Carmen, for supporting me with all my crazy ideas and projects. This all wouldn’t be possible without you.
—Michel Luescher
During the process of writing my first book, I promised myself that I would never do it again. So, what changed? As the project progressed, and the products continued to be revised through their release milestones, somewhere along the path to publishing the challenge of writing also changed to become enjoyable. When Aidan then suggested the idea for this book while we were walking around Seattle one cold night in February, I was surprised to hear myself agreeing to the idea and feeling the excitement of being involved! It was not many weeks after that when we had the pleasure of meeting our representative from Sybex in Las Vegas to sell the plan; thanks to Aidan we were on a roll.
Collecting, selecting, and validating all the details that goes into the chapters of a technical book clearly requires a lot of input from many different people, especially respected experts and co-authors, Aidan, Patrick, and Michel, with whom it has been an honor working alongside. Our technical editor, Hans, deserves a very special consideration. It was his job to read our work in its earliest format, dissect our content to ensure its accuracy, and create labs to reproduce our implementation guides and recommendations. This was no minor achievement, yet he continued to excel at finding and squashing the bugs, and forcing us to rethink all the time. Thank you Hans.
In addition, a very special thanks to my work colleagues at Lionbridge, especially Oyvind, Steve, Benny, and the “Corp IT” Team for supporting and encouraging me, and my infamous “Lab.” I would also like to acknowledge the fantastic team at Microsoft, who has, over the years, put up with my “constructive” criticism (of products) and helped me out of many complex road blocks, especially Pat Fetty, Nigel Cain, and Travis Wright. The reality is that there are many people who helped along the way, too many to list individually; I offer my sincere appreciation to you all.
I would like to thank my amazing wife for always providing direction to my life; my parents for their enduring support and encouragement; my family—immediate, extended, and acquired by marriage! Their constant support and belief in me are the best gifts they could ever give.
—Damian Flynn