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Mastering KVM Virtualization - Second Edition

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Product type Book
Published in Oct 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838828714
Pages 686 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Authors (4):
Vedran Dakic Vedran Dakic
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Humble Devassy Chirammal Humble Devassy Chirammal
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Prasad Mukhedkar Prasad Mukhedkar
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Anil Vettathu Anil Vettathu
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Table of Contents (22) Chapters

Preface 1. Section 1: KVM Virtualization Basics
2. Chapter 1: Understanding Linux Virtualization 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 21. Other Books You May Enjoy

Advanced troubleshooting tools

Depending on the subject – networking, hardware and software problems, or specific application problems – there are different tools that we can use to troubleshoot problems in our environments. Let's briefly go over some of these methods, with the chapters of this book in mind as we troubleshoot:

  • oVirt problems
  • Problems with snapshots and templates
  • Virtual machine customization issues
  • Ansible issues
  • OpenStack problems
  • Eucalyptus and AWS combo problems
  • ELK stack issues

Interestingly enough, one thing that we usually don't have problems with when dealing with KVM virtualization is networking. It's really well documented – from KVM bridges all the way to open vSwitch – and it's just the matter of following the documentation. The only exception is related to firewall rules, which can be a handful, especially when dealing with oVirt and remote database connections while...

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