First of all, I have to thank my wife, Carina, for being there for me, every time, and making this book possible.

I thank the whole community for contributing best practices to Hyper-V and evolving the experience around a great virtualization solution. A special thanks goes to the folks at Microsoft and my fellow Hyper-V MVPs who have spent a lot of time each day to make this solution a perfect one.

A huge thank you goes to my reviewers for contributing a lot of time to ensure the quality of this book, especially Benjamin Armstrong, Lead Program Manager of Hyper-V, who is so busy creating the next version of Hyper-V but still took his time to improve this book. However, every reviewer, including Andreas Baumgarten, Carsten Rachfahl, Shannon Fritz, and Carlo Mancini did a great job ensuring this book's quality!

I thank my employer, Elanity Network Partner GmbH, and my bosses, Peter Schröder and Andreas Waltje, for allowing me the time and resources to support the Hyper-V community and making projects such as this book real.

I also thank my great team of coworkers at Elanity, especially Natascha Merker, who actively supported me through writing this book. Kamil Kosek has to be mentioned too for his great PowerShell skills, ensuring a high degree of automation.

Last but not least, I thank the great team at Packt Publishing for creating this book, accepting me as an author, and offering great support through the process of writing.