Gerard Blokdijk - Virtualization - The Complete Cornerstone Guide to Virtualization Best Practices: Concepts, Terms, and Techniques for Successfully Planning, Implementing and Managing Enterprise It Virtualization

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1 TABLE OF CONTENTS .............................................................................3

2 INTRODUCTION .....................................................................................6

2.1 W HAT IS V IRTUALIZATION ? ..................................................................... 6

2.2 O BJECTIVES OF V IRTUALIZATION ............................................................... 8

2.3 H ISTORY OF V IRTUALIZATION ................................................................. 10

2.4 B ENEFITS OF V IRTUALIZED T ECHNOLOGY .................................................. 12

2.5 W HAT CAN BE V IRTUALIZED ?................................................................. 17

3 COMMON TERMINOLOGY ...................................................................20

4 COMPANIES USING VIRTUALIZATION ..................................................30

4.1 A KORRI ............................................................................................. 30

4.2 B LUE L ANE ......................................................................................... 31

4.3 C I RBA .............................................................................................. 31

4.4 E MBOTICS .......................................................................................... 32

4.5 E QUAL L OGIC ...................................................................................... 33

4.6 M ARATHON T ECHNOLOGIES .................................................................. 33

4.7 P LATE S PIN ........................................................................................ 34

4.8 P LATFORM C OMPUTING ....................................................................... 34

4.9 V IZIONCORE ....................................................................................... 35

4.10 VM WARE .......................................................................................... 35

5 WHY VIRTUALIZED TECHNOLOGY? ......................................................36

6 BENEFITS OF VIRTUALIZATION ............................................................40

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7 VIRTUALIZATION TECHNOLOGIES ........................................................43

7.1 U BUNTU (S ERVER E DITION ) .................................................................. 43

7.2 A LTIRIS .............................................................................................. 45

7.3 W INDOWS S ERVER .............................................................................. 47

7.4 S OFTWARE V IRTUALIZATION .................................................................. 48

7.5 VM WARE .......................................................................................... 49

7.5.1 Desktop Editions ........................................................................ 50

7.5.2 Server Editions............................................................................ 51

7.6 I NTEL V IRTUALIZATION ......................................................................... 53

7.7 R ED H AT V IRTUALIZATION .................................................................... 54

7.8 S OFTGRID A PPLICATION ........................................................................ 56

7.9 L INUX V IRTUALIZATION ........................................................................ 59

7.10 D ESKTOP V IRTUALIZATION .................................................................... 63

7.11 H ARDWARE V IRTUALIZATION ................................................................. 65

7.12 R ESOURCE V IRTUALIZATION .................................................................. 67

7.13 P ROCESSOR V IRTUALIZATION ................................................................. 68

7.14 A PPLICATION V IRTUALIZATION ............................................................... 70

7.15 S TORAGE V IRTUALIZATION .................................................................... 72

7.16 V IRTUALIZATION D ENSITY ..................................................................... 74

7.17 P ARA -V IRTUALIZATION ......................................................................... 75

7.18 OS V IRTUALIZATION ............................................................................ 77

8 VIRTUALIZATION SOFTWARE...............................................................79

9 DATA STORAGE VIRTUALIZATION........................................................99

9.1 I NTEL V IRTUALIZATION T ECHNOLOGY .................................................... 103

9.2 T HINSTALL V IRTUALIZATION S UITE ........................................................ 105

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9.3 N ET F RAMEWORK V IRTUALIZATION ...................................................... 110

9.4 W INDOWS V IRTUALIZATION ON F EDORA ............................................... 113

9.5 S TORAGE V IRTUALIZATION T ECHNOLOGIES ............................................. 114

9.6 V IRTUALIZATION L EVEL ....................................................................... 117