Getting gtarted with Red Hat enterprise virtualization : leverage powerful Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization solutions to build your own IaaS cloud / Pradeep Subramanian.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Subramanian, Pradeep, author.

Series:

Community experience distilled.

Community Experience Distilled

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Linux.

Operating systems (Computers).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (178 p.)

Edition:

1st edition

Other Title:

Leverage powerful Red Hat Enterprise virtualization solutions to build your own IaaS cloud

Place of Publication:

Birmingham, [England] : Packt Publishing, 2014.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

Subramaniaan Pradeep: Pradeep Subramanian is a Senior Platform Consultant at Red Hat, a global provider of open source software solutions that uses a community-powered approach to develop and offer operating system, middleware, virtualization, storage, and cloud technologies. He has 10 years of experience in open source and Linux, which includes 5 years of extensive experience in open source virtualization technologies such as Xen, KVM, and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization. His other areas of interest include high availability and grid computing, performance tuning, designing and building open hybrid cloud, architectural design, and implementation of Enterprise IT using open source tools. This is his first book.

Summary:

If you are a system administrator who is interested in implementing and managing open source virtualization infrastructures, this is the book for you. A basic knowledge of virtualization and basic Linux command line experience is needed.

Contents:

Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: An Overview of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization; The virtualization overview; Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM); Features of RHEV; Supported virtual machine operating systems; RHEV architecture; Components of RHEV; The hardware and software requirement of RHEV; Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager; The Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor host; The Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager client; Firewall Requirements; Summary

Chapter 2: Installing RHEV Manager and Hypervisor HostsEnvironment mapping; Setting up the RHEL operating system for the manager; Registering with Red Hat Network; Installing the RHEV-Manager packages; Running the initial engine setup; Connecting to the admin and user portal 006C; RHEV reporting; Installing the RHEV history database and report server; Accessing the RHEV report portal; Deploying RHEV Hypervisor; Installing the hypervisor; Configuring the hypervisor; Summary; Chapter 3: Setting Up the RHEV Virtual Infrastructure; Configuring RHEV; Data centers; Clusters

Approving hypervisor hostsLogical networks; Adding logical networks; Storage domains; Adding a data domain to store virtual machines; Adding a data domain of other storage types; Activating the ISO domain; Populate ISO images on an ISO domain; Configuring and activating an export domain; Summary; Chapter 4: Creating and Managing Virtual Machines; Virtual machines; Creating Linux virtual machines; General settings; System settings; Initial Run settings; Console settings; Host settings; High Availability settings; Resource Allocation settings; Boot Options settings; Custom Properties

Adding virtual disksInstalling Red Hat Enterprise Linux on a virtual machine; Installing guest agents and drivers on RHEL guests; Creating Windows virtual machines; Installing VirtIO drivers during the Windows installation; Guest agents and driver installation on Windows guests; Virtual machine templates; Creating a Red Hat Enterprise Linux template; Cloning a RHEL virtual machine from a template; Creating a Windows template; Virtual machine snapshots; Creating snapshots; Restoring virtual machines from the snapshot; Creating a virtual machine from the snapshot

Deleting a virtual machine snapshotBacking up virtual machines to export disks; Exporting a virtual machine and template; Importing a virtual machine and template; Summary; Chapter 5: Virtual Machine and Host High Availability; Virtual machine''s live migration; Advantages of live migration; The requirements of live migration; Manual live migration; Cold migration; Cancelling migration; Virtual machine''s high availability; Automatic virtual machine migration; The migration priority; Disabling the automatic virtual machine migration; The host''s high availability; Manual fencing

Cluster policies

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 07, 2014).

ISBN:

9781782167419

1782167412

OCLC:

892044507