Citrix XenServer 6.0 administration essential guide : deploy and manage XenServer in your enterprise to create, integrate, manage, and automate a virtual datacenter quickly and easily / Daniele Tosatto.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tosatto, Daniele.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Xen (Electronic resource).

Virtual computer systems.

Computer organization.

Parallel processing (Electronic computers).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (364 p.)

Edition:

1st edition

Other Title:

XenServer 6.0 administration essential guide

Citrix Xen Server 6.0 administration essential guide

Xen Server 6.0 administration essential guide

Place of Publication:

Birmingham : Packt Pub., 2012.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

Tosatto Daniele: Daniele Tosatto is a Windows Infrastructure Architect specialized in Citrix and Microsoft technologies with 15 years of experience. He is a Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert, Microsoft Solutions Associate, and Citrix Certified Administrator. He has been working with Microsoft products since 2000 as a systems administrator. He currently works as a project manager for the Italian Citrix Platinum Partner in medium to large Citrix and virtualization projects.

Summary:

Deploy and manage XenServer in your enterprise to create, integrate, manage and automate a virtual datacenter quickly and easily.

Contents:

Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Introducing XenServer Resource Pools; XenServer resource pool overview; XenServer resource pool requirements; Creating a XenServer resource pool; Creating a heterogeneous XenServer resource pool; Designating a new pool master host; Removing a XenServer host from a resource pool; Preparing a XenServer host for maintenance; Licensing XenServer; Activating a free edition; Activating a non-free edition; Summary; Chapter 2: Managing User Authentication

User management overview Authenticating users with Active Directory; Understanding Active Directory authentication; Enabling Active Directory authentication on a pool; Disabling Active Directory Authentication; User authentication; Removing access for a user using the CLI; Role Based Access Control overview; Roles and Permissions; Definitions of RBAC Roles and Permissions; Calculating RBAC roles; Assigning roles to users and groups; Assigning or changing a role to a user or group; Summary; Chapter 3: Managing Storage Repositories; Storage overview; Storage technologies and protocols

Direct Attached Storage Storage Area Network (SAN); Network Attached Storage (NAS); Storage protocols; Network File System (NFS); Fibre Channel (FC); Internet Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI); Storage in XenServer; Storage Repository (SR); Virtual Disk Images (VDIs); Storage attributes; Physical Block Devices (PBDs); Virtual Block Devices (VBDs); Creating Storage Repositories; Creating a Storage Repository; Creating a new NFS VHD Storage Repository; Creating a new software iSCSI Storage Repository; Creating a new hardware HBA Storage Repository; Creating a new StorageLink Repository

Creating a new ISO Storage Repository Managing Storage Repositories; Reattaching an SR; Adding a Storage Repository; Storage multipathing; Enabling multipathing; Summary; Chapter 4: Creating Virtual Machines; Overview of virtual machines; XenServer Tools; Overview of virtual machines creation; Using VM templates; Converting a physical machine to virtual; Importing an exported VM; Cloning an existing VM; Creating virtual machines; Creating a Windows virtual machine; Installing the XenServer Tools package; Creating a Windows virtual machine using xe CLI; Creating a Windows machine

Renaming the virtual disk Resizing the disk; Installing a DVD drive on a virtual machine; Summary; Chapter 5: Managing Virtual Machines; Managing virtual machines; Cloning a virtual machine; Creating a template; Importing and exporting virtual machines; Open Virtualization Format (OVF); Importing a virtual machine from an OVF/OVA package; Importing disk images; Importing VMs from XVA; Exporting a virtual machine; Converting a physical machine; Managing vApps; Creating a vApp; Importing and exporting a vApp; Summary; Chapter 6: Managing XenServer and Virtual Machine Memory

XenServer memory overview

Notes:

"Professional experience distilled."

Includes index.

ISBN:

9786613775535

9781281090171

1281090174

9781849686174

1849686173

OCLC:

798535904