About the Contributing Author

Patrick Lownds (MCSE, MCTS, and MVP) has been working in the IT industry since 1988. He has worked as a junior IT analyst, systems engineer, consultant, and solution architect for various companies within the United Kingdom, working across a number of industry verticals for clients in the United Kingdom and Europe. In recent years, Patrick has worked with Citrix XenServer, VMware ESX, Microsoft Hyper-V, and a number of Microsoft System Center products. Currently, Patrick is working as a solution architect with Hewlett Packard and is based in Wood Street, London.

Patrick is the co-founder and co-contributor of the Microsoft Virtualization User Group in the United Kingdom. He regularly speaks at user group events and ...

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