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Editorial Review: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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This was the most helpful book I found on Xen and virtualization in general. It's very well presented and gives some good examples. It's good as a tutorial. It's good as a reference. Well organized and presented.
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This book is just excellent! It is a MUST title in a system administrators library interested to learn everything about virtualization using Xen. The author explains all the most important features from Xen considering theory and practical aspects. If you want to learn Xen and if you would like to have in your library a good reference about this subject, just buy this book.
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This book just has too many authors (7). There's so much disconnect between parargraphs within the chapters. Seems one persone would right a paragraph and then another would write the next and so on.
Multiple diagrams within the figures that are not expounded upon.
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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 ...
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