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Mastering KVM Virtualization

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Mastering KVM Virtualization

Overview of this book

A robust datacenter is essential for any organization – but you don’t want to waste resources. With KVM you can virtualize your datacenter, transforming a Linux operating system into a powerful hypervisor that allows you to manage multiple OS with minimal fuss. This book doesn’t just show you how to virtualize with KVM – it shows you how to do it well. Written to make you an expert on KVM, you’ll learn to manage the three essential pillars of scalability, performance and security – as well as some useful integrations with cloud services such as OpenStack. From the fundamentals of setting up a standalone KVM virtualization platform, and the best tools to harness it effectively, including virt-manager, and kimchi-project, everything you do is built around making KVM work for you in the real-world, helping you to interact and customize it as you need it. With further guidance on performance optimization for Microsoft Windows and RHEL virtual machines, as well as proven strategies for backup and disaster recovery, you’ll can be confident that your virtualized data center is working for your organization – not hampering it. Finally, the book will empower you to unlock the full potential of cloud through KVM. Migrating your physical machines to the cloud can be challenging, but once you’ve mastered KVM, it’s a little easie.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Mastering KVM Virtualization
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 10. Installing and Configuring the Virtual Datacenter Using oVirt

Until now we have been trying to learn virtualization using a single system or two. What if your environment has grown big? Or if your management has decided to virtualize most of your physical systems, for efficiency and hence reduce costs?

You are now staring at hundreds of virtual machines scattered around multiple KVM hypervisors. Your head is filled with questions. How am I going to monitor and manage the vast pool of virtual machines? What about resource allocation? How will I make sure that high availability works for my clusters? What if a hypervisor goes down? Will I be able to manage everything using virsh, virt-manager, and kimchi? Then somebody says it is time introduce VM$. Only VM$ can manage virtual machines on a larger scale. But you are a fighter. You want open source in your environment where you are in control, not any proprietary solutions company. You opened your browser and searched for open source...