Virtualization has profoundly changed the IT industry, and the technology will continue to have an impact as it matures and evolves. Our e-book, Introduction to Virtualization, covers the basics of the technology for IT professionals who want to reap the benefits of virtualization in their data centers.
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.
Chapter 6: How virtual infrastructures change security
Chapter 5: Storage in the virtualized world
Chapter 4: Making virtual infrastructures highly available
Chapter 3: Virtualizing a test and development lab
Chapter 2: Optimizing server virtualization
Chapter 1: Virtualization concepts in disaster recovery
Chapter 6: How virtual infrastructures change security
This chapter addresses the following areas:
- Security concerns in the virtual data center
- Ways to secure the resource pool
- Limiting the number of resource pool administrators and preventing over-administration
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Chapter 5: Storage in the virtualized world
This chapter addresses the following areas:
- How virtualization affects storage and storage management
- Practical storage virtualization methods and how to choose the best solution for your organization
- Virtual LUN maintenance and care
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Chapter 4: Making virtual infrastructures highly available
This chapter addresses 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
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Chapter 3: Virtualizing a test and development lab
This chapter addresses following areas:
- 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
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Chapter 2: Optimizing server virtualization
This chapter addresses following areas:
- 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
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Chapter 1: Virtualization concepts in disaster recovery
This chapter addresses following areas:
- 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
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