Virtualization: From the Desktop to the Enterprise

Description

Creating a virtual network allows you to maximize the use of your servers. Virtualization: From the Desktop to the Enterprise is the first book of its kind to demonstrate how to manage all aspects of virtualization across an enterprise. (Other books focus only on singular aspects of virtualization, without delving into the interrelationships of the technologies.)

This book promises to cover all aspects of virtualization, including virtual machines, virtual file systems, virtual storage solutions, and clustering, enabling you to understand which technologies are right for your particular environment. Furthermore, the book covers both Microsoft and Linux environments.

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Virtualization
From the Desktop to the Enterprise
CHRIS WOLF AND ERICK M. HALTER
Virtualization: From the Desktop to the Enterprise
Copyright © 2005 by Chris Wolf and Erick M. Halter
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Contents at a Glance
About the Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvii
About the Technical Reviewer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xix
Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxi
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxiii
CHAPTER 1 Examining the Anatomy of a Virtual Machine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
CHAPTER 2 Preparing a Virtual Machine Host. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
CHAPTER 3 Installing VM Applications on Desktops . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
CHAPTER 4 Deploying and Managing VMs on the Desktop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
CHAPTER 5 Installing and Deploying VMs on Enterprise Servers. . . . . . . . . . . . 139
CHAPTER 6 Deploying and Managing Production VMs on Enterprise Servers. . 173
CHAPTER 7 Backing Up and Recovering Virtual Machines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
CHAPTER 8 Using Virtual File Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
CHAPTER 9 Implementing Failover Clusters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309
CHAPTER 10 Creating Load-Balanced Clusters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347
CHAPTER 11 Building Virtual Machine Clusters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379
CHAPTER 12 Introducing Storage Networking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413
CHAPTER 13 Virtualizing Storage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435
CHAPTER 14 Putting It All Together: The Virtualized Information System . . . . . 471
APPENDIX A Virtualization Product Roundup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495
INDEX. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 527
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