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Mastering KVM Virtualization

You're reading from   Mastering KVM Virtualization Design expert data center virtualization solutions with the power of Linux KVM

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838828714
Length 686 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Preface 1. Section 1: KVM Virtualization Basics
2. Chapter 1: Understanding Linux Virtualization FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: KVM as a Virtualization Solution 4. Section 2: libvirt and ovirt for Virtual Machine Management
5. Chapter 3: Installing KVM Hypervisor, libvirt, and oVirt 6. Chapter 4: Libvirt Networking 7. Chapter 5: Libvirt Storage 8. Chapter 6: Virtual Display Devices and Protocols 9. Chapter 7: Virtual Machines: Installation, Configuration, and Life Cycle Management 10. Chapter 8: Creating and Modifying VM Disks, Templates, and Snapshots 11. Section 3: Automation, Customization, and Orchestration for KVM VMs
12. Chapter 9: Customizing a Virtual Machine with cloud-init 13. Chapter 10: Automated Windows Guest Deployment and Customization 14. Chapter 11: Ansible and Scripting for Orchestration and Automation 15. Section 4: Scalability, Monitoring, Performance Tuning, and Troubleshooting
16. Chapter 12: Scaling Out KVM with OpenStack 17. Chapter 13: Scaling out KVM with AWS 18. Chapter 14: Monitoring the KVM Virtualization Platform 19. Chapter 15: Performance Tuning and Optimization for KVM VMs 20. Chapter 16: Troubleshooting Guidelines for the KVM Platform 21. Other Books You May Enjoy

Configuring Open vSwitch

Imagine for a second that you're working for a small company that has three to four KVM hosts, a couple of network-attached storage devices to host their 15 virtual machines, and that you've been employed by the company from the very start. So, you've seen it all – the company buying some servers, network switches, cables, and storage devices, and you were a part of a small team of people that built that environment. After 2 years of that process, you're aware of the fact that everything works, it's simple to maintain, and doesn't give you an awful lot of grief.

Now, imagine the life of a friend of yours working for a bigger enterprise company that has 400 KVM hosts and close to 2,000 virtual machines to manage, doing the same job as you're doing in a comfy chair of your office in your small company.

Do you think that your friend can manage his or her environment by using the very same tools that you're...

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