Getting Started with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization

Leverage powerful Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization solutions to build your own IaaS cloud

About This Book

• Build an agile, secure, and highly scalable virtualization foundation for your enterprise Linux and Windows workloads
• Explore how Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization positions itself as the strategic virtualization alternative to proprietary virtualization platforms
• Deep dive into its internal architecture and components and learn how to build and manage RHEV

Who This Book Is For

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.

In Detail

The Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization platform is an enterprise grade, centralized management and hypervisor for server and desktop virtualization. It’s a complete virtualization management solution providing fully integrated management of your virtual infrastructures. The RHEV Platform components work seamlessly together to build your open private Infrastructure-as-a-Service cloud.

Develop a thorough understanding of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization through this step-by-step guide. Covering invaluable information right from the initial setup to the configuration of the infrastructure, you will learn to create and manage your own virtual machine as well as master the centralized management interface for virtualized machine snapshots.

Through simple, hands-on tutorials, this book guides you through implementing and managing a virtualization infrastructure to run your mission critical enterprise workloads.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. An Overview of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
Chapter 2. Installing RHEV Manager and Hypervisor Hosts
Chapter 3. Setting Up the RHEV Virtual Infrastructure
Chapter 4. Creating and Managing Virtual Machines
Chapter 5. Virtual Machine and Host High Availability
Chapter 6. Advanced Storage and Networking Features
Chapter 7. Quota and User Management
Chapter 8. Managing a Virtualization Environment from the Command Line
Chapter 9. Troubleshooting RHEV
Chapter 10. Setting Up iSCSI, NFS, and IdM Directory Services for RHEV