Acknowledgments

I would like to thank my family for their long-time support and trust in me. I would never have been able to grow and learn as much as I did without your gracious support all these years.

I'd like to thank my closest friends, Ovidiu P, Calin D., and Radu E., who have been true friends, are always helpful, and never ask for anything in return.

I'd like to thank my former colleagues who supported and inspired me throughout my career—Tim Miltenberger, Calin Irimies, Sabin Georgescu, Mihai Breana, and everyone else I have worked with over the years.

A big thanks to the team responsible for publishing this book—my coauthor, Suraj Patil, who I have very much enjoyed working with. I would also like to thank our technical reviewers, Sebastiaan van Kaam and Matthew Spencer, who have kindly reviewed the book and made great suggestions.

I'd also like to thank Shaon Basu, our acquisition manager, who had the idea of putting this book together, and the team behind the book, Prachi Bisht, Shali Deeraj, and Ajinkya Paranjape, who have provided continuous feedback and helped edit this book.

Last but not least, I would like to thank the entire medical staff at the Nova Vita clinic who helped me recover after my accident.

Suraj Patil is an accomplished virtualization consultant with 8 years of experience in the information technology industry. He is a specialist in designing, building, maintaining, and optimizing Citrix, Microsoft, and VMware oriented infrastructures for large enterprises and mid-sized organizations. He holds a bachelor's degree in Information Technology and has many certifications from vendors such as Microsoft, VMware, Citrix, Red Hat, and Cisco.

Suraj is a Citrix Certified Professional—Mobility (CCP-M), VMware Certified Professional—Data Center Virtualization (VCP5-DCV), VMware Certified Professional—Network Virtualization (VCP6-NV), Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert (MCSE)—Private Cloud, and Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA).

Suraj currently lives in Mumbai and works for a Fortune 500 company as a Citrix consultant.

You can visit his blog at www.v12nsupport.com.

I would like to thank God for giving me the opportunity to write this book and share my knowledge with others.

I want to thank my family for the strength and the support they have always given me.

I want to thank Mr. Iqbal who gave me the opportunity to start working on the Citrix platform.

Special thanks to RK who pushed me to write and complete this book and always encouraged me to keep growing.

Finally, I would like to thank Deepti Thore, Shali Deeraj, Ajinkya Paranjape, Harshal Ved, and the entire staff at Packt Publishing for the support and patience during the writing of my first book.

Thank you all!!!