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As virtualization becomes an ever larger part of production data systems it is more important than ever that systems administrators, developers, managers, and executives understand the power and limitations of these products. With stronger, faster, and now multi-core proccessors modern servers are capable of much more work than most applications require. With servers running idle times of 80% companies are not really getting their money's worth out of their servers. Using virtualization technology helps provide acceptable services while minimizing the space, power, cooling, cabeling, and cost of server resources.

When I wrote my portions of this book I looked for real examples and asked myself questions I would want to know as someone installing and using Virtual Server 2005 R2. The screen shots and diagrams are straight off my computer running the actual product. This is not just a rehash of the Admin guide. I tried to give a useful answer to each option, checkbox, and radio button with an explaination of why and when to use each.

I use this prouct and other virtualization tools everyday and I hope you find this a useful book for both reference and learning to deploy virtual machines in a real world environment. I hope you find it useful.