Practical Virtualization Solutions
Practical Virtualization Solutions

Author: Kenneth Hess

Publisher: Pearson Education

Published: 2009-10-12

Total Pages: 438

ISBN-13: 0137055005

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The 100% Practical Guide to Making Virtualization Work in Real Enterprise Environments If you’re involved in planning, deploying, or managing virtualization, this book brings together all the field-proven, in-the-trenches answers and solutions you’ll need. Packed with examples and case studies, Practical Virtualization Solutions is a complete, self-paced, hands-on guide to creating a virtualized environment and driving maximum value from it throughout its entire lifecycle. Kenneth Hess and Amy Newman present detailed costs, schedules, and deployment plans drawn from actual enterprise virtualization projects. You’ll learn what really works and what doesn’t and discover powerful ways to systematically control the costs of virtualization and streamline its management. The authors offer realistic guidance on choosing the best services to virtualize; selecting the right virtualization software, hardware, and vendor partners; troubleshooting and securing virtualized environments; and much more. Along the way, they answer crucial questions IT professionals face in working with virtualization. Coverage includes Quantifying the time, hardware, labor, and downtime needed to implement virtualization Streamlining the transition from physical to virtual Comparing VMware ESXi, VMware Server, Microsoft Hyper-V, Citrix XenServer, and other virtualization technologies Identifying opportunities to reduce cost and improve flexibility with open source virtualization technologies Explaining advanced techniques for simplifying virtual machine management Defining the right role for virtualization in networking and storage Automating virtual infrastructure management tasks

Practical Virtualization Solutions
Practical Virtualization Solutions

Author: Kenneth Hess

Publisher:

Published: 1900

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13:

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This is the eBook version of the printed book. If the print book includes a CD-ROM, this content is not included within the eBook version. The 100% Practical Guide to Making Virtualization Work in Real Enterprise Environme.

Virtual Team Success
Virtual Team Success

Author: Richard Lepsinger

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2010-09-09

Total Pages: 85

ISBN-13: 0470872411

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In today’s complex organizations it is not uncommon to have as many as 50 percent of employees working on virtual teams. As the “virtual revolution” continues to spread, how can companies ensure that virtual team collaboration is producing the desired results? Highly practical and easy to navigate, Virtual Team Success leverages the authors’ robust global research study and hands-on experience to provide an immediately usable resource for virtual team members and team leaders. This groundbreaking book is a hands-on, practical toolkit filled with down-to-earth examples and insights that can enhance the virtual team experience for everyone involved. The authors’ research study is one of the most comprehensive applied studies ever conducted on virtual teams, and all of the recommendations outlined are based on these findings as well as the authors’ years of experience helping virtual teams and virtual team leaders effectively lead and collaborate from a distance. To help organizations and leaders enhance virtual team performance, the book includes: Why Virtual Teams Fail—outlines the four pitfalls that frequently derail virtual teams Profile of High Performing Teams—addresses the characteristics of the most effective virtual teams and what makes them successful Virtual Team Launch Kit—provides practical guidelines and tools for successfully launching virtual teams How to RAMP Up Your Team’s Effectiveness—introduces a practical research-based model of virtual team effectiveness to improve team performance Profile of Top Performing Virtual Team Leaders—identifies the practices of the most successful virtual team leaders Facilitating High-Impact Virtual Meetings—includes tips and techniques to effectively lead “v-meetings” Virtual Team Success also includes practical resources for virtual team leaders, quick reference guides for diagnosing virtual team problems, and six lessons for virtual team success.

How to Cheat at Configuring VmWare ESX Server
How to Cheat at Configuring VmWare ESX Server

Author: David Rule

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2011-04-18

Total Pages: 390

ISBN-13: 0080555357

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A virtual evolution in IT shops large and small has begun. VMware's ESX Server is the enterprise tool to free your infrastructure from its physical limitations providing the great transformation into a virtual environment--this book shows you how. Use Syngress' proven "How to Cheat methodology to configure and build VMware's ESX Server version 3. This clear, concise guide provides all the information you need to become a virtual whiz!This book will detail the default and custom installation of VMware's ESX server as well as basic and advanced virtual machine configurations. It will then walk the reader through post installation configurations including installation and configuration of VirtualCenter. From here, readers will learn to efficiently create and deploy virtual machine templates. Best practices for securing and backing up your virtual environment are also provided. The book concludes with a series of handy, time-saving command and configuration for: bash shell keystrokes, Linux commands, configuration files, common/proc files, VMware ESX commands, and troubleshooting.•Reap the Benefits of Server VirtualizationRealize improved ROI, ensure efficient mergers and acquisitions, and reduce compliance risk exposure through server virtualization and consolidation.•Build a Virtual MachineCreate a Gold Master and use your VMlibrary to leverage the power and flexibility of VMware. •Manage Your Virtual InfrastructureUse VMware tools to partition physical servers and manage virtual machines.•Set Up Scripted InstallationSee how a scripted installation method can be a fast and efficient way to provision ESX hosts.•Master ESX Native ToolsUse tools like Esxtop to diagnose performance issues and vmkfstools to import and export•Install and Use VMware Scripting APIsDevelop programs to help automate and ease administration—even with a limited background in scripting or programming.•Learn the Fundamentals of a VM BackupVMware ESX ships with three scripts that work together to create a backup and restore system: vmsnap.pl, vmsnap_all.pl, and vmres.pl.•Extend a Cloned Windows VM's Root PartitionUse Microsoft's Sysprep utility to extend a newly deployed virtual machine's root partition from the original clone size to a larger size.

Hardware and Software Support for Virtualization
Hardware and Software Support for Virtualization

Author: Edouard Bugnion

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2022-06-01

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 3031017536

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This book focuses on the core question of the necessary architectural support provided by hardware to efficiently run virtual machines, and of the corresponding design of the hypervisors that run them. Virtualization is still possible when the instruction set architecture lacks such support, but the hypervisor remains more complex and must rely on additional techniques. Despite the focus on architectural support in current architectures, some historical perspective is necessary to appropriately frame the problem. The first half of the book provides the historical perspective of the theoretical framework developed four decades ago by Popek and Goldberg. It also describes earlier systems that enabled virtualization despite the lack of architectural support in hardware. As is often the case, theory defines a necessary—but not sufficient—set of features, and modern architectures are the result of the combination of the theoretical framework with insights derived from practical systems. The second half of the book describes state-of-the-art support for virtualization in both x86-64 and ARM processors. This book includes an in-depth description of the CPU, memory, and I/O virtualization of these two processor architectures, as well as case studies on the Linux/KVM, VMware, and Xen hypervisors. It concludes with a performance comparison of virtualization on current-generation x86- and ARM-based systems across multiple hypervisors.

Inventing the Cloud Century
Inventing the Cloud Century

Author: Marcus Oppitz

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-08-03

Total Pages: 624

ISBN-13: 3319611615

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This book combines the three dimensions of technology, society and economy to explore the advent of today’s cloud ecosystems as successors to older service ecosystems based on networks. Further, it describes the shifting of services to the cloud as a long-term trend that is still progressing rapidly.The book adopts a comprehensive perspective on the key success factors for the technology – compelling business models and ecosystems including private, public and national organizations. The authors explore the evolution of service ecosystems, describe the similarities and differences, and analyze the way they have created and changed industries. Lastly, based on the current status of cloud computing and related technologies like virtualization, the internet of things, fog computing, big data and analytics, cognitive computing and blockchain, the authors provide a revealing outlook on the possibilities of future technologies, the future of the internet, and the potential impacts on business and society.

Practical Guide to XEN High Availability
Practical Guide to XEN High Availability

Author: Sander van Vugt

Publisher: Books4Brains

Published: 2010-03-08

Total Pages: 135

ISBN-13: 9072389085

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If you need an affordable and stable solution to offer high availability for virtual machines, this book is written for you. With this book you will learn how to build an HA solution with open source software. The solutions described in this book can help our organization save thousands of dollars on data center virtualization. You will learn how to create virtual machines using Xen and how to make them highly available using Pacemaker software. As a bonus, you will also read how to implement a cheap SAN solution, using open source software. This book is written for anyone who wants to create an affordable and stable solution for high availability of Xen virtual machines. To get the most out of this book, the reader should have a good working knowledge of Linux. The book uses SUSE Linux Enterprise as the example distribution. The configuration is also applicable to other distributions.

Virtual-Office Tools for a High-Margin Practice
Virtual-Office Tools for a High-Margin Practice

Author: David J. Drucker

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2010-05-21

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 0470884789

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Tired of spending more time with filing cabinets than with clients? Is overhead eating up margins? Now, two leading financial planners and columnists deliver the help advisers have been begging for. Virtual-Office Tools for a High-Margin Practice is a nontechnical trove of technology, clever workarounds, and procedural efficiencies tailored to help financial advisers move toward a paperless office, while still complying with SEC record-keeping requirements. The authors show planners how to reduce the amount of paperwork in their offices by 99 percent, slash overhead, and find anything they need in one minute or less by adapting innovative software tools and shifting from on-site employees to remote assistants and virtual work partners. Until now, creative ways of working this smart were hard to come by. With this book, they are available, ready to go, and easy to implement.

Xen Virtualization
Xen Virtualization

Author: Prabhakar Chaganti

Publisher: Packt Publishing Ltd

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 9781847192486

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A fast and practical guide to supporting multiple operating systems with the Xen hypervisor.