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Mastering Oculus Rift Development. The next frontier of gaming and simulation

Jack Donovan

Virtual reality (VR) is changing the world of gaming and entertainment as we know it. VR headsets such as the Oculus Rift immerse players in a virtual world by tracking their head movements and simulating depth, giving them the feeling that they are actually present in the environment. We will first use the Oculus SDK in the book and will then move on to the widely popular Unity Engine, showing you how you can add that extra edge to your VR games using the power of Unity. In this book, you’ll learn how to take advantage of this new medium by designing around each of its unique features. This book will demonstrate the Unity 5 game engine, one of most widely-used engines for VR development, and will take you through a comprehensive project that covers everything necessary to create and publish a complete VR experience for the Oculus Rift. You will also be able to identify the common perils and pitfalls of VR development to ensure that your audience has the most comfortable experience possible.By the end of the book, you will be able to create an advanced VR game for the Oculus Rift, and you’ll have everything you need to bring your ideas into a new reality.

Mastering Veeam Backup & Replication. An authoritative guide to architect a resilient Veeam 13 backup platform with proven best practices - Fourth Edition

Chris Childerhose, Rick Vanover, Nikola Pejková

In today’s evolving threat landscape, protecting data across virtual, physical, and cloud workloads is critical. Veeam Backup & Replication remains a leading modern data protection platform, and version 13 elevates it with AI-driven intelligence, hardened security, and a reimagined appliance architecture. This new edition equips IT professionals and backup administrators to design, deploy, and manage a resilient Veeam v13 infrastructure.This edition covers major new features added to the application, such as Veeam Intelligence AI-driven insights, Universal Continuous Data Protection, and the Veeam Software Appliance with built-in High Availability clustering. This guides you through implementing modern data protection solutions for your cloud and virtual infrastructure with Veeam while helping you master advanced concepts such as Zero Trust security hardening and enhanced Active Directory integration. You'll dive deep into other new features as well, such as improved automation through PowerShell enhancements, and learn about CDP and disaster recovery from a service provider perspective with Veeam Cloud Connect.By the end of this book, you'll be able to successfully implement Veeam Backup & Replication to secure your environment and ensure reliable disaster recovery across your entire infrastructure.

Mastering VMware Horizon 7.8. Master desktop virtualization to optimize your end user experience - Third Edition

Peter von Oven, Barry Coombs

Desktop virtualization can be tough, but VMware Horizon 7.8 changes all that. With a rich and adaptive UX, improved security,and a range of useful features for storage and networking optimization, there's plenty to love.But to properly fall in love with it, you need to know how to use it, and that means venturing deeper into the software and taking advantage of its extensive range of features, many of which are underused and underpromoted. This guide will take you through everything you need to know to not only successfully virtualize your desktop infrastructure, but also to maintain and optimize it to keep all your users happy.We'll show you how to assess and analyze your infrastructure, and how to use that analysis to design a solution that meets your organizational and user needs. Once you've done that, you'll find out how to build your virtualized environment, before deploying your virtualized solution. But more than that,we'll also make sure you know everything you need to know about the full range of features on offer, including the mobile cloud, so that you can use them to take full control of your virtualized infrastructure.

Mastering VMware vSphere 6.5. Leverage the power of vSphere for effective virtualization, administration, management and monitoring of data centers

Andrea Mauro , Paolo Valsecchi , Karel...

VMware vSphere 6.5 provides a powerful, flexible and secure foundation for next-generation applications which helps you create an effective digital transformation. This book will be based on VMware vSphere 6.5 which empowers you to virtualize any complex application with ease. You’ll begin by getting an overview of all the products, solutions and features of the vSphere 6.5 suite, comparing the evolutions with the previous releases. Next ,you’ll design and plan a virtualization infrastructure to drive planning and performance analysis. Following this , you will be proceeding with workflow and installation of components. New network trends are also covered which will help you in optimally designing the vSphere environment. You will also learn the practices and procedures involved in configuring and managing virtual machines in a vSphere infrastructure. With vSphere 6.5, you’ll make use of significantly more powerful capabilities for patching, upgrading, and managing the configuration of the virtual environment. Next we’ll focus on specific availability and resiliency solutions in vSphere. Towards the end of the book you will get information on how to save your configuration, data and workload from your virtual infrastructure. By the end of the book you’ll learn about VMware vSphere 6.5 right from design to deployment and management.

Mastering VMware vSphere 6.7. Effectively deploy, manage, and monitor your virtual datacenter with VMware vSphere 6.7 - Second Edition

Martin Gavanda , Andrea Mauro , Paolo...

vSphere 6.7 is the latest release of VMware’s industry-leading, virtual cloud platform. It allows organisations to move to hybrid cloud computing by enabling them to run, manage, connect and secure applications in a common operating environment.This up-to-date, 2nd edition provides complete coverage of vSphere 6.7. Complete with step-by-step explanations of essential concepts, practical examples and self-assessment questions, you will begin with an overview of the products, solutions and features of the vSphere 6.7 suite.You’ll learn how to design and plan a virtual infrastructure and look at the workflow and installation of components. You'll gain insight into best practice configuration, management and security. By the end the book you'll be able to build your own VMware vSphere lab that can run even the most demanding of workloads.

Mastering vRealize Operations Manager. Analyze and optimize your IT environment by gaining a practical understanding of vRealize Operations 6.6 - Second Edition

Spas Kaloferov, Chris Slater, Scott Norris

In the modern IT world, the criticality of managing the health, efficiency, and compliance of virtualized environments is more important than ever. With vRealize Operations Manager 6.6, you can make a difference to your business by being reactive rather than proactive.Mastering vRealize Operations Manager helps you streamline your processes and customize the environment to suit your needs. You will gain visibility across all devices in the network and retain full control. With easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions and support images, you will quickly master the ability to manipulate your data and display it in a way that best suits you and your business or technical requirements. This book not only covers designing, installing, and upgrading vRealize Operations 6.6, but also gives you a deep understanding of its building blocks: badges, alerts, super metrics, views, dashboards, management packs, and plugins. With the new vRealize Operations 6.6 troubleshooting capabilities, capacity planning, intelligent workload placement, and additional monitoring capabilities, this book is aimed at ensuring you get the knowledge to manage your virtualized environment as effectively as possible.

Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 PowerShell Księga przepisów. Niezawodne przepisy automatyzowania czasochłonnych zadań administracyjnych

Jonas Andersson, Nuno Mota, Mike Pfeiffer

Niezawodne przepisy automatyzowania czasochłonnych zadań administracyjnych Zaczniemy od najważniejszych koncepcji powłoki PowerShell. Staną się one podstawą kolejnych przykładów opisanych w tej książce. Następnie zajmiemy się typowymi zadaniami zarządzania programem Exchange, które wykonamy za pomocą powłoki zarządzania. Poznamy techniki efektywnej automatyzacji tych zadań i nauczymy się pisać skrypty dla najnowszej wersji programu. W dalszej kolejności nauczymy się zarządzać adresatami Exchange i wykonywać różne operacje na skrzynkach pocztowych. Zajmiemy się też zarządzaniem grupami dystrybucyjnymi i listami adresowymi. Po zapoznaniu się z tymi zagadnieniami przejdziemy do kilku scenariuszy, w których użyjemy skryptów PowerShell do zwiększenia wydajności zarządzania bazami danych skrzynek pocztowych. Zajmiemy się też dostępem klienckim oraz zarządzaniem usługami transportu. Omówimy też kilka aspektów zabezpieczeń i zgodności, takich jak kontrola dostępu oparta na rolach, certyfikaty cyfrowe, archiwizacja i przechowywanie, zbieranie elektronicznych materiałów dowodowych oraz audyt. W końcowej części książki poznamy techniki uzyskiwania wysokiej dostępności, zabezpieczania środowiska, monitorowania stanu programu Exchange oraz integracji z serwerami Office Online Server, Skype for Business Server oraz Exchange Online (Office 365). Poruszane zagadnienia: Dokładne omówienie nowych funkcji i możliwości programów PowerShell i Exchange Server 2016 Omówienie głównych koncepcji związanych z programem PowerShell Używanie prostych skryptów i poleceń programu PowerShell w celu uzyskania skutecznych wyników Generowanie szczegółowych raportów, wysyłanie danych wyjściowych poleceń za pomocą poczty elektronicznej oraz tworzenie harmonogramów automatycznego uruchamiania skryptów Importowanie, eksportowanie i przenoszenie skrzynek pocztowych, a także usuwanie wiadomości ze skrzynek pocztowych za pomocą wiersza poleceń Konfigurowanie ustawień serwera transportu, takich jak przekazywanie poczty, reguły transportu, raporty dotyczące dostarczenia poczty, i innych Zarządzanie skrzynkami pocztowymi i folderami publicznymi Monitorowanie stanu środowiska programu Exchange z wykorzystaniem wbudowanych cmdletów i innych metod Integracja programu Exchange z serwerami Office Online Server, Skype for Business Server i Exchange Online (Office 365)

Microsoft HoloLens By Example. Create immersive Augmented Reality experiences

Joshua Newnham

Are you a developer who is fascinated with Microsoft HoloLens and its capabilities? Do you want to learn the intricacies of working with the HoloLens SDK and create your own apps? If so, this is the book for you.This book introduces and demystifies the HoloLens platform and introduces new ways you can interact with computers (Mixed Reality). It will teach you the important concepts, get you excited about the possibilities, and give you the tools to continue exploring and experimenting. You will go through the journey of creating four independent examples throughout the book, two using DirectX and two using Unity. You will learn to implement spatial mapping and gesture control, incorporate spatial sound, and work with different types of input and gaze. You will also learn to use the Unity 5 SDK for HoloLens and create apps with it. Collectively, the apps explore the major concepts of HoloLens, but each app is independent, giving you the flexibility to choose where to start (and end).