XenServer Administration Handbook

Practical Recipes for Successful Deployments

Tim Mackey, J. K. Benedict (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

142 Seiten

2016
O'Reilly Media (Verlag)
978-1-4919-3543-9 (ISBN)

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Packed with practical advice, this hands-on guide provides valuable information you need to most effectively optimize and manage the XenServer open source virtualization platform. Whether you run a modest installation of a few blades or multiple global enterprise datacenters, this book focuses on the most critical issues you’re likely to encounter when designing a XenServer deployment and helps you handle day-to-day management tasks.

Tim Mackey and J.K. Benedict from Citrix Systems, the company that manages XenServer, show you how to design a deployment through best practices, deployment blueprints, and installation guidelines. The book’s second part features concise, easy-to-implement recipes for day-to-day management, such as user rights, backup strategies, and hardware maintenance.

Learn precisely what makes a XenServer work, and how it can host 1000 virtual machines
Explore the core components of a production XenServer environment
Investigate several options on how and where to install XenServer
Examine several factors for "right sizing" your XenServer deployment to fit your needs
Work with a decision tree to optimize your XenServer deployment design
Understand how to accommodate guest VM virtualization modes
Use recipes that help you plan for, obtain, and apply XenServer upgrades

Tim Mackey is a community manager and evangelist for XenServer within the Citrix Open Source Business Office and is focused on server virtualization and cloud orchestration technical competencies. He joined Citrix through the Reflectent acquisition in 2006, and served as architect and developer for Citrix EdgeSight; an end user experience performance monitoring solution. In 2007, Mr. Mackey became technical product manager for the EdgeSight product line and then in 2009 product manager for the XenServer self-service virtualization components. Since that time, he has held various roles within the XenServer team, and speaks regularly on topics related to the design of large scale virtual environments.

J.K. Benedict, Senior Support Engineer for XenServer and Virtualization Technologies, SME for XenClient Enterprise.

Designing a Successful XenServer Deployment
Chapter 1What Is a XenServer?
The Xen Hypervisor
Tooling for Xen Virtualization
Chapter 2Core Architecture and Critical Components
XenServer Isn’t Linux, but dom0 Is
XenCenter: A Graphical Xen Management Tool
Core Processes
Critical Configuration Files
XenServer Object Relationships
Chapter 3Installing XenServer
Manual Installation
Unattended Installation
Boot from SAN
Supplemental Packs
Third-Party Driver Disks
Chapter 4Design Assumptions Impacting Deployment
Pooled Hosts Versus Standalone Hosts
Defining a Management Paradigm
Hardware Compatibility
Shared Versus Local Storage
Storage I/O Operations Per Second (IOPS)
Memory Management
Planning for Infrastructure Failure
Chapter 5Deployment Blueprint
Start with Storage
Define Network Topologies
Chapter 6Understanding Guest VM Types
HVM Guests
PV Guests
Microsoft Windows in XenServer
HVM versus Linux PV
Management Recipes
Chapter 7Installation Recipes
Manual Installation
Creating a Bootable USB Device
Unattended Installation
Boot from SAN
Installation of Supplemental Packs
Driver Disks
Slipstreaming Drivers and Supplemental Packs
Chapter 8Planning for Upgrades
Security Patches
Learning of a New Hotfix or Patch
Determine if a Hotfix Is Present
Applying Patches to XenServer
Chapter 9Log Management
Log Configuration
Log Rotation
Log Aggregation
Throttling SNMP ACKs
Chapter 10Backup Strategies
Backup dom0
Pool and XAPI Database Backup
VM Backup
Metadata Backup and Restore
Portable Storage Repositories
Chapter 11User Management
Enabling Roles Based Authentication
Configuring Users
Removing Users
Disable External Authentication
Privileged (Root) Password Recovery
Chapter 12SSL Certificates
Apply a Commercial Certificate
Create a New Self-Signed Certificate
Chapter 13Hardware Maintenance
Upgrades, Support, and Hardware
Storage
Networking
Hosts

Erscheinungsdatum	21.04.2016
Zusatzinfo	black & white illustrations
Verlagsort	Sebastopol
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 233 mm
Gewicht	260 g
Einbandart	kartoniert
Themenwelt	Informatik ► Betriebssysteme / Server ► Virtualisierung
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Netzwerke
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Theorie / Studium
Schlagworte	Netzwerkadministration • Virtualisierung • Xen • XenServer
ISBN-10	1-4919-3543-X / 149193543X
ISBN-13	978-1-4919-3543-9 / 9781491935439
Zustand	Neuware