Implementing Citrix XenServer Quickstarter : a practical guide to getting started with the Citrix XenServer Virtualization technology with easy-to-follow instructions / Gohar Ahmed.

Implementing Citrix XenServer Quick Starter is a practical, hands-on guide that will help you get started with the Citrix XenServer Virtualization technology with easy-to-follow instructions. Implementing Citrix XenServer Quick Starter is for system administrators who have little to no information on virtualization and specifically Citrix XenServer Virtualization. If you're managing a lot of physical servers and are tired of installing, deploying, updating, and managing physical machines on a daily basis over and over again, then you should probably explore your option of XenServer Virtualizati.

Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Getting to Know Xen; Life without virtualization; What is virtualization?; Types of virtualization; History of Xen and XenServer; How XenServer works; Benefits of Citrix XenServer; Requirements for XenServer; System requirements; What is XenCenter; System requirements; Summary; Chapter 2: Installing and Starting XenServer; Downloading and installing XenServer; Enabling virtualization in BIOS; Installing XenServer; Installing XenCenter; Connecting XenCenter and XenServer.

Virtual Block Devices (VBDs)Storage attributes; Creating a storage repository; Creating an NFS VHD storage repository; Creating a software iSCSI Storage Repository; Creating a hardware HBA storage repository; Creating a StorageLink repository; Creating an ISO library; Managing the storage repositories; Summary; Chapter 5: Playing with VMs; Virtual machines using templates; Selecting a template for a new virtual machine; Selecting the operating-system-bootable ISO; Selecting the host XenServer for a virtual machine; Selecting storage space to create the vHDD.

Network interface and network connectivityXenServer Tools; Creating new templates; Converting an existing VM to a template; Making templates from snapshots; Importing templates; Cloning VMs and templates; Preparing and cloning Windows VMs; Summary; Chapter 6: Managing virtual machines; Managing storage, memory, and networking; Managing VM CPU and memory; Dynamic memory control; Managing virtual machine storage; Managing network interfaces; Importing and exporting virtual machines; Exporting a virtual machine; Importing a virtual machine; Virtual machine snapshots; Types of snapshots.

Disk-onlyQuiesced; Disk and memory; Introduction to vApps; Summary; Chapter 7: Networking in XEN; The XenServer networking concept; Network types and objects; The Networking pool; Network types; Using virtual networks; VLANs with virtual machines; NIC bonds; Creating an NIC bond; Deleting an NIC bond; Virtual switches and routers; Summary; Chapter 8: Advanced Concepts; Introduction to XenConvert; System requirements; Converting a physical machine to a virtual machine; Preparing the host machine; High Availability; Failure planning; Distributed vSwitch Controller; Workload Balancing.

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