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Anil Desai is an independent consultant based in Austin, Tex. He specializes in evaluating, implementing and managing solutions based on Microsoft technologies. He has worked extensively with Microsoft's Server products and the .NET development platform and has managed datacenter environments that support thousands of virtual machines. Anil is an MCSE, MCSD, MCDBA and a Microsoft MVP (Windows Server -- Management Infrastructure).
Anil is the author of numerous technical books focusing on the Windows Server Platform, Virtualization, Active Directory, SQL Server, and IT management. Most recently, he has written The Rational Guide to Managing Microsoft Virtual Server and The Rational Guide to Scripting Microsoft Virtual Server. He has made dozens of conference presentations at national events and is also a contributor to technical magazines. For more details and more information about Anil, please see AnilDesai.net, or e-mail Anil@AnilDesai.net.
Contributions from Anil Desai
- Managing Hyper-V's security permissions
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- Optimizing Hyper-V performance: Advanced fine-tuning
- Optimizing Hyper-V performance: Monitoring tips
- Migrating from Microsoft Virtual Server to Hyper-V
- Optimizing virtual hard disk performance in Hyper-V
- Taking Snapshots with Hyper-V
- Managing virtual hard disks in Hyper-V
- Virtualization face-off: The case for Hyper-V
- Managing virtual machines with Microsoft System Center
- Backup options for virtual machines
- Using advanced NAS features in virtualization
- Putting virtual appliances on physical hardware
- Automating VHD recognition in Microsoft Virtual Server 2005
- Installing VMs and operating systems on SCSI external physical disks in Virtual Server
- Sifting through P2V conversion tools.
- How to organize a virtual environment
- Troubleshooting a SAN storage configuration in a Microsoft environment
- How to configure fault tolerance for a disk subsystem
- Reconciling operating system monitoring tools clock cycle identification