Free ebook: Understanding Microsoft Virtualization Solutions (Second Edition)

Here it is! Mitch Tulloch has updated his free ebook of last year; it’s now updated for Windows Server 2008 R2. You can now download Understanding Microsoft Virtualization Solutions, From the Desktop to the Datacenter in XPS format here and in PDF format here.

Six chapters adding up to 466 pages.

Here are Mitch’s acknowledgments:

Acknowledgments
This book would not have been possible without the support and assistance of numerous
individuals. First, I would like to especially thank Michael Cooper, Senior Product Manager
and Field Technical Community Lead for System Center and Virtualization Business Group;
Aurora Santiago, Product Manager for System Center and Virtualization Technical Readiness;
and Kenon Owens, Technical Product Marketing Manager for Integrated Virtualization, all
of whom helped drive this project forward and provided liaison with other members of the
virtualization team at Microsoft. Next, my sincere thanks to each of following experts at
Microsoft who provided key technical insights, peer-reviewed chapter content, contributed
Direct from the Source sidebars, and assisted me in many other ways with this project:

Aaron Holzer, Alex Balcanquall, Arun Jayendran, Balagopan Nikhil, Chuck Timon, Fei Lu, Isaac
Roybal, Karri Alexio-Tiernan, Max Herrmann, Megan Kidd, Mohit Srivastava, Peter Ballantyne,
Prashant Ketkar, Ran Kohavi, Ran Oelgiesser, Rick Kingslan, Vipul Shah and Wole Moses

Thanks also to Brett Polen of Xtreme Consulting Group, Rex Backman of Simplicity
Consulting, and Nicole Pargoff of iSoftStone who assisted me with certain topics covered in
this book. Special thanks to Bill Noonan, Mark Kitris, and the CTS Global Technical Readiness
(GTR) team at Microsoft for contributing their expertise to this project.

I’d also like to thank again others at Microsoft together with several Microsoft Most Valuable
Professionals (MVPs) who contributed their expertise to the previous edition of this book,
namely:

Anshul Rawat, Baldwin Ng, David Greschler, Edwin Yuen, Falko Gräfe, James O’Neill, Jason
Leznek, Jeff Woolsey, Kalle Saunamäki Kyle Beck, Michelle Foley, Ming Zhu, Peter Larsen,
Sean Donahue and Tim Mangan

Next, special thanks Devon Musgrave, the development editor for this project, and Valerie
Woolley, the project editor for this project, both of whom work at Microsoft Press. I’ve
enjoyed working with them on this book and hope to do so again on another one in the near
future.

Thanks also to Steve Sagman of Waypoint Press who managed the editing and
production for this book, to Bob Hogan the technical editor for this project, and to the
ever-insightful Roger LeBlanc who copy edited the manuscript. Thanks also to Ken Jones who
was project planner for this title.

As always, heartfelt thanks to my friend and agent, Neil Salkind of the Salkind Agency, which
is part of Studio B Productions, Inc.

And last but never least, thanks to my wife, Ingrid, for her encouragement and support
during this project.

—Mitch Tulloch

 

Enjoy!

Comments

• Anonymous
  February 18, 2010
  Nice! Thanks for making an excellent resource even better, and for keeping it free. I'd call this a must-have for every IT admin.

• Anonymous
  February 20, 2010
  What is the ISBN number of that book?

• Anonymous
  February 22, 2010
  It would be better if the download links actually worked.

• Anonymous
  February 22, 2010
  Patres, the ISBN is 9780735693821.  Steve, we've had thousands of hits on the page for the ebook and no complaints but yours.  Maybe try again?

• Anonymous
  April 11, 2010
  It might be helpful for my next virtual terminal server project. Thanks :)

• Anonymous
  April 14, 2010
  On page 133, there is a note that states "Bridge mode has poorer performance than Shared Networking (NAT) but is more secure because the guest operation system is hidden behind a NAT"  ;  I agree with NAT being more secure, but it seems to me that NAT has poorer performance, not bridge mode.  Also, it's an "operating" system, not "operation"  :)  I may be wrong.

• Anonymous
  June 06, 2010
  This is looking really good need to learn more about server virtualisation and more, also i would like to say a great big thank you for keeping it free.

• Anonymous
  June 07, 2010
  For e-books, it would be nice if you also used a standard e-book format that is easy to read on mobile devices and e-readers.  Please include ePub and MobiPocket formats.  Almost every e-reader available reads one of these two formats. Yes many can read PDF, but most PDFs are not setup to flow on a mobile device.

• Anonymous
  October 24, 2010
  I'd second Peter's comment above. Pdfs just don't work well on my kindle as I can't increase the text size.

• Anonymous
  November 01, 2010
  You can use the mobipocket creator to convert PDFs to Kindle format. www.mobipocket.com/.../productdetailscreator.asp

• Anonymous
  November 10, 2010
  Where is the link?

• Anonymous
  November 10, 2010
  the link is at the top of the page. we give links to XPS format and PDF format

• Anonymous
  March 04, 2011
  Only if there was a link to download this book !

• Anonymous
  May 10, 2011
  Register at www.gigapedia.com the book is free there.

• Anonymous
  May 10, 2011
  The book is also free here. The links are in the first paragraph of this post, on "XPS format here" and "PDF format here."

• Anonymous
  May 16, 2011
  you are good .with successfully for you

• Anonymous
  June 04, 2011
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• Anonymous
  August 21, 2011
  thanks for sharing

• Anonymous
  August 26, 2011
  Does this only cover 70-669? Or does it also cover 70-693?

• Anonymous
  August 26, 2011
  The comment has been removed

• Anonymous
  December 27, 2011
  I've downloaded the book in PFD format but it has errors. Anybody have the same problem. I'm using Adobe Reader X

• Anonymous
  May 20, 2012
  Thanks for

• Anonymous
  May 29, 2012
  merci pour ce livres et ce que il existe en francais merci de ma voir aide

• Anonymous
  August 03, 2012
  I have tried several times today, and the download link (pdf) is not working.  

• Anonymous
  September 22, 2012
  Nice share, thankyou so much.

• Anonymous
  November 30, 2012
  Downloaded, converted and uploaded to my kindle... Now: reading! Thanks a lot

• Anonymous
  February 24, 2013
  thanks for providing study resources.