SearchServerVirtualization.com's Introduction to Virtualization e-book covers the basics of virtualization technology, including disaster recovery (DR), server consolidation, testing and development, high availability, storage, security, and the three key virtualization platforms: Microsoft Hyper-V, Citrix XenServer and VMware ESX.
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Chapter 3: Virtualizing a test and development lab
Chapter 2: Optimizing server virtualization
Chapter 1: Virtualization concepts in disaster recovery
Chapter 4: Making virtual infrastructures highly available
This chapter address the following areas:
- Choosing the best high-availability strategy for your virtual machines
- Differences of live migration vs. high availability
- Preparing a virtual HA infrastructure
Chapter 3: Virtualizing a test and development lab
- Benefits of consolidating volatile IT environments, including test and development labs
- Licensing issues to consider when building virtualized environments
- Simple and inexpensive steps to virtualizing your test and development lab
Chapter 2: Optimizing server virtualization
- Understanding the benefits, tradeoffs and risks of server virtualization
- How to determine and track your virtual machine requirements
- Identifying and addressing performance issues in your virtual environment
Chapter 1: Virtualization concepts in disaster recovery
- Deciding if a disaster recovery SAN, or storage area network, is appropriate for your data center
- Disaster recovery testing in virtual environments
- Must-have features for servers used in a virtualized DR plan
This was first published in February 2009
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