Getting Started with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization.

Intro -- Getting Started with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization -- Table of Contents -- Getting Started with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization -- Credits -- About the Author -- About the Reviewers -- www.PacktPub.com -- Support files, eBooks, discount offers, and more -- Why subscribe? -- Free access for Packt account holders -- Preface -- What this book covers -- What you need for this book -- Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager 3.3 -- The Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor host -- Optional requirements -- Who this book is for -- Conventions -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Downloading the example code -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- 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 -- Storage -- Directory services (optional) -- Networking and Domain Name Service -- Virtual machines -- Firewall Requirements -- Virtualization manager firewall requirements -- Virtualization host firewall requirements -- Directory server firewall requirements -- Remote database server firewall requirements -- User accounts and groups -- Summary -- 2. Installing RHEV Manager and Hypervisor Hosts -- Environment 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 -- 3. Setting Up the RHEV Virtual Infrastructure -- Configuring RHEV -- Data centers -- Clusters -- Approving hypervisor hosts -- Logical 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 -- 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 disks -- Installing 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 snapshot -- Backing up virtual machines to export disks -- Exporting a virtual machine and template -- Importing a virtual machine and template -- Summary -- 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 -- The resilience policy -- The cluster policy -- Summary -- 6. Advanced Storage and Networking Features -- Shareable disks -- Direct LUN mapping -- Virtual disk resize -- Storage live migration -- VNIC QoS -- Hot plugging devices -- Hot plugging and removing virtual hard disks -- Hot plugging in VNIC -- Hot plugging virtual CPU -- Summary -- 7. Quota and User Management -- An overview of user management -- Adding the IdM domain to RHEV Manager -- Validating and listing added domains -- Adding directory users -- Authorizing users and assigning roles -- Creating a new role -- Introduction to Quota -- Enabling Quota -- Creating the Quota policy -- Assigning Quota to virtual machine objects -- Assigning Quota to limit resources by users -- Summary -- 8. Managing a Virtualization Environment from the Command Line -- Introduction to the CLI -- Installing and setting up CLI -- Basic command-line examples -- Running Linux commands in a shell -- Listing resources from the command-line shell -- Creating and editing a virtual machine -- Summary -- 9. Troubleshooting RHEV -- RHEV Manager logs -- RHEV Hypervisor hosts' logs -- Guest agent and SPICE logs -- The log collector utility -- Maintaining an RHEV environment -- The stop procedure -- The start procedure -- Summary -- 10. Setting Up iSCSI, NFS, and IdM Directory Services for RHEV -- Setting up iSCSI for the data domain -- Setting up NFS for the export domain -- Installing and configuring Red Hat IdM -- Adding users from CLI -- Summary -- Index.

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.

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