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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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Published in Oct 2020
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ISBN-13 9781838828714
Length 686 pages
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Humble Devassy Chirammal Humble Devassy Chirammal
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Humble Devassy Chirammal works as a senior software engineer at Red Hat in the Storage Engineering team. He has more than 10 years of IT experience and his area of expertise is in knowing the full stack of an ecosystem and architecting the solutions based on the demand. These days, he primarily concentrates on GlusterFS and emerging technologies, such as IaaS, PaaS solutions in Cloud, and Containers. He has worked on intrusion detection systems, clusters, and virtualization. He is an Open Source advocate. He actively organizes meetups on Virtualization, CentOS, Openshift, and GlusterFS. His Twitter handle is @hchiramm and his website is http://www.humblec.com/.
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Prasad Mukhedkar is a senior technical support engineer at Red Hat. His area of expertise is designing, building, and supporting IT infrastructure for workloads, especially large virtualization environments and cloud IaaS using open source technologies. He is skilled in KVM virtualization with continuous working experience from its very early stages, possesses extensive hands-on and technical knowledge of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization. These days, he concentrates primarily on OpenStack and Cloudforms platforms. His other area of interest includes Linux performance tuning, designing highly scalable open source identity management solutions, and enterprise IT security. He is a huge fan of the Linux "GNU Screen" utility.
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Vedran Dakic is a master of electrical engineering and computing and an IT trainer, covering system administration, cloud, automatization, and orchestration courses. He is a certified Red Hat, VMware, and Microsoft trainer. He's currently employed as head of the department of operating systems at Algebra University College in Zagreb. As part of this job, he's a lecturer for 3- and 5-year study programs in system engineering, programming, and multimedia tracks. Also, he does a lot of consulting and systems integration for his clients' projects – something he has been doing for the past 25 years. His approach is simple – bring real-world experience to all the courses that he teaches as it brings added value to his students and customers.
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Anil Vettathu started his association with Linux in college and began his career as a Linux System Administrator soon after. He is a generalist and is interested in Open Source technologies. He has hands on experience in designing and implementing large scale virtualization environments using open source technologies and has extensive knowledge in libvirt and KVM. These days he primarily works on Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, containers and real time performance tuning. Currently, he is working as a Technical Account Manager for Red Hat. His website is http://anilv.in.
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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

Introduction to storage

Unlike networking, which is something that most IT people have at least a basic understanding of, storage tends to be quite different. In short, yes, it tends to be a bit more complex. There are loads of parameters involved, different technologies, and…let's be honest, loads of different types of configuration options and people enforcing them. And a lot of questions. Here are some of them:

  • Should we configure one NFS share per storage device or two?
  • Should we create one iSCSI target per storage device or two?
  • Should we create one FC target or two?
  • How many Logical Unit Numbers (LUNs) per target?
  • What kind of cluster size should we use?
  • How should we carry out multipathing?
  • Should we use block-level or share-level storage?
  • Should we use block-level or object-level storage?
  • Which technology or solution should we choose?
  • How should we configure caching?
  • How should we configure zoning or masking?
  • How...
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Vedran Dakic is a master of electrical engineering and computing and an IT trainer, covering system administration, cloud, automatization, and orchestration courses. He is a certified Red Hat, VMware, and Microsoft trainer. He's currently employed as head of the department of operating systems at Algebra University College in Zagreb. As part of this job, he's a lecturer for 3- and 5-year study programs in system engineering, programming, and multimedia tracks. Also, he does a lot of consulting and systems integration for his clients' projects – something he has been doing for the past 25 years. His approach is simple – bring real-world experience to all the courses that he teaches as it brings added value to his students and customers.
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Anil Vettathu started his association with Linux in college and began his career as a Linux System Administrator soon after. He is a generalist and is interested in Open Source technologies. He has hands on experience in designing and implementing large scale virtualization environments using open source technologies and has extensive knowledge in libvirt and KVM. These days he primarily works on Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, containers and real time performance tuning. Currently, he is working as a Technical Account Manager for Red Hat. His website is http://anilv.in.
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Prasad Mukhedkar is a senior technical support engineer at Red Hat. His area of expertise is designing, building, and supporting IT infrastructure for workloads, especially large virtualization environments and cloud IaaS using open source technologies. He is skilled in KVM virtualization with continuous working experience from its very early stages, possesses extensive hands-on and technical knowledge of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization. These days, he concentrates primarily on OpenStack and Cloudforms platforms. His other area of interest includes Linux performance tuning, designing highly scalable open source identity management solutions, and enterprise IT security. He is a huge fan of the Linux "GNU Screen" utility.
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Humble Devassy Chirammal works as a senior software engineer at Red Hat in the Storage Engineering team. He has more than 10 years of IT experience and his area of expertise is in knowing the full stack of an ecosystem and architecting the solutions based on the demand. These days, he primarily concentrates on GlusterFS and emerging technologies, such as IaaS, PaaS solutions in Cloud, and Containers. He has worked on intrusion detection systems, clusters, and virtualization. He is an Open Source advocate. He actively organizes meetups on Virtualization, CentOS, Openshift, and GlusterFS. His Twitter handle is @hchiramm and his website is http://www.humblec.com/.
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