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

Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781838828714

Length 686 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Tools

KVM

Concepts

Design

Authors (4):

Humble Devassy Chirammal

Prasad Mukhedkar

Vedran Dakic

Anil Vettathu

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Table of Contents (22) Chapters

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

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Section 2: libvirt and ovirt for Virtual Machine Management

In this part of the book, you will get a complete understanding of how to install, configure, and manage a KVM hypervisor using libvirt. You will get advanced knowledge of KVM infrastructure components, such as networking, storage, and virtual hardware configuration. As part of the learning process, you will also get a thorough knowledge of virtual machine life cycle management and virtual machine migration techniques, as well as virtual machine disk management. At the end of part 2, you will be well acquainted with the libvirt command-line management tool virsh and the GUI tool virt-manager.

This part of the book comprises the following chapters:

Chapter 3, Installing KVM Hypervisor, libvirt, and ovirt
Chapter 4, Libvirt Networking
Chapter 5, Libvirt Storage
Chapter 6, Virtual Display Devices and Protocols
Chapter 7, Virtual Machines Installation, Configuration, and Life Cycle Management
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