quantum

Author: von Hagen, William
Isbn 13: 9780470138113
ISBN: 0470138114
Pub Date: Jan 31, 2008
Publisher: Wiley
Shipping Weight: 1.42 pounds
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The book is organized linearly, providing a complete foundation in virtualization, Xen, and competing approaches to virtualization before proceeding to details discussions of installing, configuring, and using Xen. As a book in the Wrox Professional series, the book will be rich in detailed examples of Xen configuration files, system configuration files, and system-level configuration information that will make it easy for system administrators to install, use, and optimize virtual machines in the enterprise. However, this book will also provide basic information that helps system administrators adopt Xen and justify its selection. Primary focus areas for the book are: . Installing and configuring Xen host systems and guest operating systems running as virtual machines on the host system . Low-level information about optimizing Xen itself, Xen hosts, and guest operating systems to get the best possible performance and to build a power, supportable, and reliable computing infrastructure based on Xen virtualization. . A detailed exploration of building custom guest operating system installations that can be run as virtual machines on a Xen host system, discussing all of the possible alternative approaches in detail and highlighting the advantages and disadvantages of each . Xen in the Enterprise - considerations and issues for using Xen in enterprise data centers, covering standard system administration issues like high availability, backups, system management and monitoring, and so on. . Detailed reference information that surpasses the official Xen documentation by expalaining how and why different configuration options and commands should be used, not just listing available options.
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