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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

3.8 (5)

By: Pradeep Subramaniaan

Overview of this book

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.

Preface

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the example code

Free Chapter

1. An Overview of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization

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

Summary

2. Installing RHEV Manager and Hypervisor Hosts

2. 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

3. Setting Up the RHEV Virtual Infrastructure

Configuring RHEV

Approving hypervisor hosts

Logical networks

Storage domains

Summary

4. Creating and Managing Virtual Machines

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. Quota and User Management

An overview of user management

Introduction to Quota

Summary

8. Managing a Virtualization Environment from the Command Line

8. Managing a Virtualization Environment from the Command Line

Introduction to the CLI

Basic command-line examples

Summary

9. Troubleshooting RHEV

9. 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

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

Summary

Index

Index

Chapter 2. Installing RHEV Manager and Hypervisor Hosts

This chapter describes setting up RHEV-M, including the installation, initial configuration, and connection to the administrator and user portal of the manager web interface.

In the latter part of the chapter, we will learn how to deploy and configure the hypervisor and set up the RHEV-M report portal.

Here are some of the major areas we are going to cover in the rest of this chapter:

Setting up the Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system for the manager
Installing and configuring RHEV-M and reporting
Connecting to the administration (admin) and user portal
Deploying the RHEV-H host on the physical server

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