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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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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

Summary

In this chapter, we introduced and configured various Open Source storage concepts for libvirt. We also discussed industry-standard approaches, such as iSCSI and NFS, as they are often used in infrastructures that are not based on KVM. For example, VMware vSphere-based environments can use FC, iSCSI, and NFS, while Microsoft-based environments can only use FC and iSCSI, from the list of subjects we covered in this chapter.

The next chapter will cover subjects related to virtual display devices and protocols. We'll provide an in-depth introduction to VNC and SPICE protocols. We will also provide a description of other protocols that are used for virtual machine connection. All that will help us to understand the complete stack of fundamentals that we need to work with our virtual machines, which we covered in the past three chapters.

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