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Getting Started with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization

You're reading from   Getting Started with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Leverage powerful Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization solutions to build your own IaaS cloud

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2014
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ISBN-13 9781782167402
Length 178 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Pradeep Subramaniaan Pradeep Subramaniaan
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Preface 1. An Overview of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization FREE CHAPTER 2. Installing RHEV Manager and Hypervisor Hosts 3. Setting Up the RHEV Virtual Infrastructure 4. Creating and Managing Virtual Machines 5. Virtual Machine and Host High Availability 6. Advanced Storage and Networking Features 7. Quota and User Management 8. Managing a Virtualization Environment from the Command Line 9. Troubleshooting RHEV 10. Setting Up iSCSI, NFS, and IdM Directory Services for RHEV Index

Introduction to Quota


RHEV supports Quota; this is a data center object that will be used to limit the virtualization resource usage on top of the limitation set by the user permission. Quota allows you to limit memory, CPU, and storage disks. Quota can be assigned to individual users or groups so that whenever the user Quota limit reaches the defined limit, the users are forced to stop performing further actions.

RHEV supports two different kinds of Quota:

  • Run-time Quota: This limits the consumption of resources such as CPU and memory

  • Storage Quota: This limits the consumption of storage disks

RHEV Quota has three modes:

  • Audit: Setting Quota on the data center in this mode will allow the admin to change both runtime and storage Quota based on the demand

  • Enforced: Setting Quota to this mode will put it into effect and prevent users to further resources

  • Disabled: This completely disables both runtime and storage Quota

RHEV Quota supports hard and soft limits and also allows the admin to define a...

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