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Citrix XenServer 6.0 administration essential guide : deploy and manage XenServer in your enterprise to create, integrate, manage, and automate a virtual datacenter quickly and easily /
"This is a practical, concise step-by-step tutorial with screenshots for carrying out tasks showing you how to manage and administer a XenServer in your business. The author brings his own extensive knowledge of XenServer. The book is full of best practices and tips that will help you benefit f...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Birmingham :
Packt Pub.,
2012.
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| Colección: | Professional expertise distilled.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Introducing XenServer Resource Pools
- 2. Managing User Authentication
- 3. Managing Storage Repositories
- 4. Creating Virtual Machines
- 5. Managing Virtual Machines
- 6. Managing XenServer and Virtual Machine Memory
- 7. Managing XenServer Networking
- 8. Managing High Availability and Snapshots
- 9. Protecting and Monitoring XenServer.
- 1. Introducing XenServer Resource Pools
- XenServer resource pool overview
- XenServer resource pool requirements
- Creating a XenServer resource pool
- Creating a heterogeneous XenServer resource pool
- Designating a new pool master host
- Removing a XenServer host from a resource pool
- Preparing a XenServer host for maintenance
- Licensing XenServer
- Activating a free edition
- Activating a non-free edition
- Summary
- 2. Managing User Authentication
- User management overview
- Authenticating users with Active Directory
- Understanding Active Directory authentication
- Enabling Active Directory authentication on a pool
- Disabling Active Directory Authentication
- User authentication
- Removing access for a user using the CLI
- Role Based Access Control overview
- Roles and Permissions
- Definitions of RBAC Roles and Permissions
- Calculating RBAC roles
- Assigning roles to users and groups
- Assigning or changing a role to a user or group
- Summary
- 3. Managing Storage Repositories
- Storage overview
- Storage technologies and protocols
- Direct Attached Storage
- Storage Area Network (SAN)
- Network Attached Storage (NAS)
- Storage protocols
- Network File System (NFS)
- Fibre Channel (FC)
- Internet Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI)
- Storage in XenServer
- Storage Repository (SR)
- Virtual Disk Images (VDIs)
- Storage attributes
- Physical Block Devices (PBDs)
- Virtual Block Devices (VBDs)
- Creating Storage Repositories
- Creating a Storage Repository
- Creating a new NFS VHD Storage Repository
- Creating a new software iSCSI Storage Repository
- Creating a new hardware HBA Storage Repository
- Creating a new StorageLink Repository
- Creating a new ISO Storage Repository
- Managing Storage Repositories
- Reattaching an SR
- Adding a Storage Repository
- Storage multipathing
- Enabling multipathing
- Summary
- 4. Creating Virtual Machines
- Overview of virtual machines
- XenServer Tools
- Overview of virtual machines creation
- Using VM templates
- Converting a physical machine to virtual
- Importing an exported VM
- Cloning an existing VM
- Creating virtual machines
- Creating a Windows virtual machine
- Installing the XenServer Tools package
- Creating a Windows virtual machine using xe CLI
- Creating a Windows machine
- Renaming the virtual disk
- Resizing the disk
- Installing a DVD drive on a virtual machine
- Summary
- 5. Managing Virtual Machines
- Managing virtual machines
- Cloning a virtual machine
- Creating a template
- Importing and exporting virtual machines
- Open Virtualization Format (OVF)
- Importing a virtual machine from an OVF/OVA package
- Importing disk images
- Importing VMs from XVA
- Exporting a virtual machine
- Converting a physical machine
- Managing vApps
- Creating a vApp
- Importing and exporting a vApp
- Summary
- 6. Managing XenServer and Virtual Machine Memory
- XenServer memory overview
- Virtual machine memory overview
- Understanding Dynamic Memory Control
- Managing virtual machine memory
- Summary
- 7. Managing XenServer Networking
- XenServer networking
- Initial network configuration
- Networking and XenServer Pools
- Network types
- Managing networking
- Changing networking configuration
- Adding and modifying virtual networks
- Configuring management interfaces
- Managing VLANs
- Connecting a virtual machine to a VLAN
- Managing bonds
- Active/Active bonding
- Active/Passive bonding
- Creating an NIC Bond
- Distributed vSwitch Controller overview
- Deploying the Distributed vSwitch Controller
- Managing the Distributed vSwitch Controller
- Viewing the status of a Distributed vSwitch Controller
- Address and virtual machine groups
- Managing Access Control List rules
- Setting Port Configuration Policies
- Summary
- 8. Managing High Availability and Snapshots
- Overview of High Availability
- Setting restart priorities
- Configuring High Availability
- Managing host and virtual machines with High Availability
- Shutting down or rebooting a host with HA enabled
- Shutting down a protected VM
- Managing snapshots
- Working with snapshots
- Creating a snapshot
- Restoring a VM to a previous state
- Deleting a snapshot
- Creating a template from a snapshot
- Creating a virtual machine from a snapshot
- Exporting a snapshot
- Summary
- 9. Protecting and Monitoring XenServer
- Overview of backup and virtual machine protection
- Backing up your XenServer environment
- Restoring from failures
- Protection and recovery of virtual machines
- Creating a VM protection policy
- Managing VM protection policies
- Assigning a VM to an existing VM protection policy
- Recovering a virtual machine from snapshots
- Overview of Workload Balancing
- Installing Workload Balancing Virtual Appliance
- Configuring Workload Balancing
- Managing Workload Balancing settings
- Adjusting Optimization Mode
- Adjusting Workload Balancing automation
- Changing Critical Thresholds and Metric Weightings
- Excluding hosts from recommendations
- Controlling automated recommendations
- Monitoring performances with Workload Balancing
- Generating reports
- Chargeback Utilization Analysis
- Host Health History
- Pool Optimization Performance History
- Pool Audit Trail
- Pool Health
- Pool Health History
- Pool Optimization History
- Virtual Machine Motion History
- Virtual Machine Performance History
- Summary
- Appendix A: Supported Guest Operating Systems and Virtual Machine Templates
- Overview of supported guest virtual machines
- Virtual machines templates
- Appendix B: Applying Updates and Hotfixes
- Applying a hotfix or update using XenCenter
- Applying a hotfix or update using the command line.