In this chapter, we are going to discuss setting up various storage services and directory services to use with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization. Generally, in any IT enterprise, a storage type of either Network Attached Storage (NAS), iSCSI, or Fiber Channel is used to store critical application data and virtual machine images of the virtual infrastructure. From the point of view of directory services, they use either Active Directory Services in a Windows-dominated infrastructure and Identity Management (IdM) for Red Hat or OpenLDAP in a Linux-based infrastructure. Though you can use the local storage of the host to store virtual machine images for noncritical workloads with limited virtualization functionalities, such as the live migration of a virtual machine from one host to another, you can also turn your Red Hat Enterprise Linux server to Network Attached Storage (NAS) server, such as Network File Server (NFS...