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Getting Started with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization

By : Pradeep Subramaniaan
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Getting Started with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization

By: Pradeep Subramaniaan

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Getting Started with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
Pradeep Subramaniaan
Sep, 2014 | 178 pages
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Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Getting Started with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
Getting Started with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
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1
An Overview of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
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
Summary
2
Installing RHEV Manager and Hypervisor Hosts
Installing RHEV Manager and Hypervisor Hosts
Environment mapping
Setting up the RHEL operating system for the manager
Installing the RHEV-Manager packages
Running the initial engine setup
RHEV reporting
Deploying RHEV Hypervisor
Summary
3
Setting Up the RHEV Virtual Infrastructure
Setting Up the RHEV Virtual Infrastructure
Configuring RHEV
Approving hypervisor hosts
Logical networks
Storage domains
Summary
4
Creating and Managing Virtual Machines
Creating and Managing Virtual Machines
Virtual machines
Creating Windows virtual machines
Virtual machine templates
Virtual machine snapshots
Summary
5
Virtual Machine and Host High Availability
Virtual Machine and Host High Availability
Virtual machine's live migration
Virtual machine's high availability
Cluster policies
Summary
6
Advanced Storage and Networking Features
Advanced Storage and Networking Features
Shareable disks
Direct LUN mapping
Virtual disk resize
Storage live migration
VNIC QoS
Hot plugging devices
Summary
7
Quota and User Management
Quota and User Management
An overview of user management
Introduction to Quota
Summary
8
Managing a Virtualization Environment from the Command Line
Managing a Virtualization Environment from the Command Line
Introduction to the CLI
Basic command-line examples
Summary
9
Troubleshooting RHEV
Troubleshooting RHEV
RHEV Manager logs
RHEV Hypervisor hosts' logs
Guest agent and SPICE logs
The log collector utility
Maintaining an RHEV environment
Summary
10
Setting Up iSCSI, NFS, and IdM Directory Services for RHEV
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
Summary
Index
Index

Supported virtual machine operating systems

RHEV supports a wide range of Linux and Windows operating systems that can be virtualized as guest operating systems.

Note

Refer to http://www.redhat.com/resourcelibrary/articles/enterprise-linux-virtualization-support for information on the up-to-date guest support.

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