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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.43
EAN: 9780132349666
Edition: 1
ISBN: 0132349663
Label: Prentice Hall PTR
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageEnglishUnknownEnglishPublished
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall PTR
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 586
Publication Date: April 16, 2008
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Studio: Prentice Hall PTR
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Product Description:
“This accessible and immediately useful book expertly provides the Xen community with everything it needs to know to download, build, deploy and manage Xen implementations.”
—Ian Pratt, Xen Project Leader VP Advanced Technology, Citrix Systems
The Real–World, 100% Practical Guide to Xen Virtualization in Production Environments
Using free, open source Xen virtualization software, you can save money, gain new flexibility, improve utilization, and simplify everything from disaster recovery to software testing. Running Xen brings together all the knowledge you need to create and manage high–performance Xen virtual machines in any environment. Drawing on the unparalleled experience of a world–class Xen team, it covers everything from installation to administration—sharing field-tested insights, best practices, and case studies you can find nowhere else.
The authors begin with a primer on virtualization: its concepts, uses, and advantages. Next, they tour Xen’s capabilities, explore the Xen LiveCD, introduce the Xen hypervisor, and walk you through configuring your own hard–disk–based Xen installation. After you’re running, they guide you through each leading method for creating “guests” and migrating existing systems to run as Xen guests. Then they offer comprehensive coverage of managing and securing Xen guests, devices, networks, and distributed resources. Whether you’re an administrator, data center manager, developer, system integrator, or ISP, Running Xen will help you achieve your goals with Xen–reliably, efficiently, with outstanding performance, and at a surprisingly low cost.
•Understanding the Xen hypervisor: what it does, and how it works
•Using pre-built system images, including compressed file systems
•Managing domains with the xm console
•Populating and storing guest images
•Planning, designing, and configuring networks in Xen
•Utilizing Xen security: special purpose VMs, virtual network segments, remote access, firewalls, network monitors, sHype access control, Xen Security Modules (XSM), and more
•Managing guest resources: memory, CPU, and I/O
•Employing Xen in the enterprise: tools, products, and techniques
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I just got this book and I am so glad! It has made my virtualization task so much easier. It brought me up to speed on virtualization and I really like the hands-on nature of the book. I have Xen up and running with my guest disk image and all seems well so far!
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Running Xen Review
Running Xen takes a unique approach to introducing Xen to both the novice and expert virtualization user. The authors start off introducing just enough of the core concepts to give the reader an adequate basis on which the book later builds on to provide the required skills to effectively run a virtual environment. A brief explanation of Xen architecture follows with an overview of the management tools with real world examples showing actual output. I found this attention ... Read More
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I'm new to virtualization, but very technical. "Running Xen" was just right for me. Great background information and rationalization mixed with solid detail. Solid in-depth intro for anyone seeking to understand virtualization in general, and Xen in particular.
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If you ever worked with Xen - Open Source Virtualization Software for Linux you probably realized that despite being powerful and performing well Xen is a complex solution that requires "reading the manual".
I think that "Running Xen" book ("A Hands-On Guide to the Art of Virtualization") will be a great help. It is written by the team of people who not only know Zen inside out, but who are also major contributors to the source.
The book is a hands-on guide for most popular distributions, ... Read More
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The review copy I had was only 583 pages, not the 624 that the specs say this has. I bring that up because I wonder if last minute updates were added, and I mention that because that was my first thought when reading this: it's out of date.
I don't mean horribly, and I certainly don't mean so much as to make this useless. But this is a common problem in the fast moving field of open source: things can change radically in the time it takes to get a book out the door.
For example, the first ... Read More
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