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Practical Virtualization Solutions: Virtualization from the Trenches, Rough Cuts
- By Kenneth Hess, Amy Newman
- Published Jul 30, 2009 by Prentice Hall.
- Copyright 2010
- Dimensions: 7x9-1/8
- Pages: 336
- Edition: 1st
- Rough Cuts
- ISBN-10: 0-13-705499-8
- ISBN-13: 978-0-13-705499-2
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The 100% Practical Guide to Making Virtualization Work in Real Enterprise Environments
If you’re involved in planning, deploying, or managing virtualization, this book brings together all the field-proven, in-the-trenches answers and solutions you’ll need. Packed with examples and case studies, Practical Virtualization Solutions is a complete, self-paced, hands-on guide to creating a virtualized environment and driving maximum value from it throughout its entire lifecycle.
Kenneth Hess and Amy Newman present detailed costs, schedules, and deployment plans drawn from actual enterprise virtualization projects. You’ll learn what really works and what doesn’t and discover powerful ways to systematically control the costs of virtualization and streamline its management. The authors offer realistic guidance on choosing the best services to virtualize; selecting the right virtualization software, hardware, and vendor partners; troubleshooting and securing virtualized environments; and much more. Along the way, they answer crucial questions–questions that are not addressed in any other book–IT professionals face in working with virtualization.
Coverage includes
- Quantifying the time, hardware, labor, and downtime needed to implement virtualization
- Streamlining the transition from physical to virtual
- Comparing VMware, Xen, KVM, Virtual Iron, OpenVZ/Virtuozzo, Parallels, Qemu, and other virtualization technologies
- Identifying opportunities to reduce cost and improve flexibility with open source virtualization technologies
- Advanced techniques for simplifying virtual machine management
- Defining the right role for virtualization in networking and storage
- Automating virtual infrastructure management tasks
Table of Contents
Part I: Virtualization Basics and Technology Choices
Chapter 1: To Virtualize or Not to Virtualize?
Chapter 2: Comparing Virtualization Technologies
Chapter 3: VMware Server
Chapter 4: VMware ESXi
Chapter 5: Citrix XenServer
Chapter 6: Microsoft Virtual PC
Chapter 7: Microsoft Hyper-V
Chapter 8: VirtualBox
Part II: Applying Virtualization
Chapter 9: Server Virtualization in Action
Chapter 10: Desktop Virtualization in Action
Chapter 11: Network and Storage Virtualization in Action
Part III: Building the Virtual Infrastructure: Hardware's Role in Virtualization
Chapter 12: Form-Factor Choices and Their Implications
Chapter 13: Choosing a Vendor
Chapter 14: Beyond the Box
Part IV: From Development to Production: Managing the Virtual Infrastructure
Chapter 15: Laying the Foundation: The Planning Stage
Chapter 16: Deployment
Chapter 17: Post-Production: Wrapping It Up
Appendix: Virtual Machine Installation
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