
Virtualization with Xen(tm): Including XenEnterprise, XenServer, and XenExpress
- 384 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
Virtualization with Xen(tm): Including XenEnterprise, XenServer, and XenExpress
About this book
Complete Coverage of Xen, Including Version 3.2Virtualization with Xen is the first book to demonstrate to readers how to install, administer, and maintain a virtual infrastructure based on XenSource's latest release, Xen 3.2. It discusses best practices for setting up a Xen environment correctly the first time, maximizing the utilization of server assets while taking advantage of the fastest and most secure enterprise-grade paravirtualization architecture. It covers both basic and advanced topics, such as planning and installation, physical-to-virtual migrations, virtual machine provisioning, resource management, and monitoring and troubleshooting guests and Xen hosts.* Explore Xen's Virtualization ModelFind a complete overview of the architecture model as well of all products: Xen 3.0, Xen Express, XenServer, and Xen Enterprise.* Deploy XenUnderstand the system requirements, learn installation methods, and see how to install Xen on a free Linux distribution.* Master the Administrator ConsoleLearn how to use the command-line tools and the remote Java-based consoler that manages the configuration and operations of XenServer hosts and VMs.* Manage Xen with Third-Party ToolsUse products like openQRM, Enomalism, and Project ConVirt to manage the VMM.* Deploy a Virtual Machine in XenLearn about workload planning and installing modified guests, unmodified guests, and Windows guests.* Explore Advanced Xen ConceptsBuild a Xen Cluster, complete a XenVM migration, and discover XenVM backup and recovery solutions.* See the Future of VirtualizationSee the unofficial Xen road map and what virtual infrastructure holds for tomorrow's data center.* See Other Virtualization Technologies and How They Compare with XenTake a look at the different types of server virtualization, other virtual machine software available, and how they compare with Xen.- Xen has the lead in the open-source community; now distributed as a standard kernel package for Novell's SLES 10 and Red Hat's RHEL 5 and Fedora Core 6 Linux distributions- Covers installation, administration, management, monitoring, and deployment planning and strategies
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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Virtulization with Xen™: Including XenEnterprise, ™ XenServer, ™ and XenExpress™
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Foreword
- Chapter 1. An Introduction to Virtualization
- Chapter 2. Introducing Xen
- Chapter 3. Deploying Xen: Demystifying the Installation
- Chapter 4. The Administrator Console and Other Native Tools
- Chapter 5. Managing Xen with Third-Party Management Tools
- Chapter 6. Deploying a Virtual Machine in Xen
- Chapter 7. Advanced Xen Concepts
- Chapter 8. The Future of Virtualization
- Appendix A. Glossary of Terms
- Appendix B. Other Virtualization Technologies and How They Compare to Xen
- Index