Running Xen
A Hands-on Guide to the Art of Virtualization
Jeanna Matthews, Eli M. Dow, Todd Deshane, Wen-chen Hu, Jeremy Bongio, Patrick F. Wilbur, Brendan Johnson
Résumé
The Real-World, 100 % Practical Guide to Xen Virtualization in Production Environments
Using free, open source Xen virtualization software, you can save money, gain new flexibility, improve utilization, and simplify everything from disaster recovery to software testing. Running Xen brings together all the knowledge you need to create and manage high-performance Xen virtual machines in any environment. Drawing on the unparalleled experience of a world-class Xen team, it covers everything from installation to administration-sharing field-tested insights, best practices, and case studies you can find nowhere else.
The authors begin with a primer on virtualization: its concepts, uses, and advantages. Next, they tour Xen's capabilities, explore the Xen LiveCD, introduce the Xen hypervisor, and walk you through configuring your own hard-disk-based Xen installation. After you're running, they guide you through each leading method for creating "guests" and migrating existing systems to run as Xen guests. Then they offer comprehensive coverage of managing and securing Xen guests, devices, networks, and distributed resources.
Whether you're an administrator, data center manager, developer, system integrator, or ISP, Running Xen will help you achieve your goals with Xen-reliably, efficiently, with outstanding performance, and at a surprisingly low cost.
- Understanding the Xen hypervisor: what it does, and how it works
- Using pre-built system images, including compressed file systems
- Managing domains with the xm console
- Populating and storing guest images
- Planning, designing, and configuring networks in Xen
- Utilizing Xen security: special purpose VMs, virtual network segments, remote access, firewalls, network monitors, sHype access control, Xen Security Modules (XSM), and more
- Managing guest resources: memory, CPU, and I/O
- Employing Xen in the enterprise: tools, products, and techniques
L'auteur - Eli M. Dow
Eli M. Dow is a software engineer in IBM's Test and Integration Center for Linux in Poughkeepsie, NY. He holds a B.S. degree in computer science and psychology as well as a M.S. in computer science from Clarkson University. He is passionate about open source software and is an alumnus and founding member of the Clarkson Open Source Institute. His interests include Virtualization, Linux systems programming, the GNOME desktop, and human-computer interaction. He is the author ofnumerous IBM developerworks articles focused on Linux and open source software. Additionally he has coauthored two books on the mainframe hypervisor z/VM, entitled "Introduction to the New Mainframe: z/VM Basics" and "Linux for IBM System z9 and IBM zSeries." His first published experience with Xen was coauthoring an early academic paper entitled "Xen and the Art of Repeated Research". Recently he has focused on developing highly available, enterprise customer solutions deployed on virtualized Linux using the z/VM hypervisor.
L'auteur - Todd Deshane
Todd Deshane expects to attain a Ph.D. in Engineering Science from Clarkson University in 2008. He also has a Master of Science in Computer Science and a Bachelor of Science in Software Engineering from Clarkson. While at Clarkson University, he has had a variety of research publications[md]many involving Xen. In 2005, a project that was based on Todd's Masters thesis[md]an open source collaborative, large database explorer[md]won first place in the UNISYS TuxMasters Invitational. Todd's primary academic and research interests are in the area of operating system technologies, such as virtual machine monitors, high availability, and file systems. His doctoral dissertation focuses on using these technologies to provide desktop users with an attack-resistant experience, with automatic and autonomic recovery from viruses, worms, and adverse system modifications. During his PhD years, Todd has been a Teaching Assistant and an IBM PhD Fellowship recipient. At IBM, Todd has worked on internship projects involving Xen and IBM technologies. Todd enjoys teaching, tutoring, and helping people.
L'auteur - Jeremy Bongio
Jeremy Bongio is currently a Master's student at Clarkson University. He won second place in the Unisys Tuxmaster Competition in 2005 with a project called Xenophilia, an early effort to make Xen more user friendly. He is a current member and former student director of the Clarkson Open Source Institute where he actively learns and experiments with different kinds of virtualization.
L'auteur - Patrick F. Wilbur
Patrick F. Wilbur is currently pursuing graduate studies in computer science at Clarkson University. His interests include operating systems, systems and application security, natural language processing, and home automation. In his spare time, Patrick enjoys composing music, experimenting with amateur radio, storm chasing, and working on various electronics, software, and carpentry projects around the house. He is currently a member of the Clarkson Open Source Institute, a volunteer at the Applied Computer Science Laboratories at Clarkson University, an emergency communications volunteer, and a member of the Association for Computing Machinery.
L'auteur - Brendan Johnson
Brendan Johnson graduated Clarkson University in 2002 with a bachelor's degree in Computer Science and a minor in mathematics. Brendan continued his education at Clarkson University and obtained a Masters of Science in Computer Science with a thesis in quantum computing. Brendan is currently a senior software architect at Mobile Armor, a world leading "Data At Rest" encryption software company.
Sommaire
- Xen-Background and Virtualization Basics
- A Quick Tour with the Xen LiveCD
- The Xen Hypervisor
- Hardware Requirements and Installation of Xen Domain0
- Using Prebuilt Guest Images
- Managing Unprivileged Domains
- Populating Guest Images
- Storing Guest Images
- Device Virtualization and Management
- Network Configuration
- Securing a Xen System
- Managing Guest Resources
- Guest Save, Restore and Live Migration
- An Overview of Xen Enterprise Management Tools
- Appendix A: Resources
- Appendix B: The xm Command
- Appendix C: The xend Configuration Options
- Appendix D: Guest Configuration Options
- Appendix E: Xen Performance Evaluation
Caractéristiques techniques
| PAPIER | |
| Éditeur(s) | Prentice Hall |
| Auteur(s) | Jeanna Matthews, Eli M. Dow, Todd Deshane, Wen-chen Hu, Jeremy Bongio, Patrick F. Wilbur, Brendan Johnson |
| Parution | 28/05/2008 |
| Nb. de pages | 600 |
| Format | 18 x 23,5 |
| Couverture | Broché |
| Poids | 900g |
| Intérieur | Noir et Blanc |
| EAN13 | 9780132349666 |
| ISBN13 | 978-0-13-234966-6 |
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