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A robust datacenter is essential for any organization – but you don't want to waste resources. With KVM you can virtualize your datacenter, transforming a Linux operating system into a powerful hypervisor that allows you to manage multiple OS with minimal fuss.
This book doesn't just show you how to virtualize with KVM – it shows you how to do it well. Written to make you an expert on KVM, you'll learn to manage the three essential pillars of scalability, performance and security – as well as some useful integrations with cloud services such as OpenStack. From the fundamentals of setting up a standalone KVM virtualization platform, and the best tools to harness it effectively, including virt-manager, and kimchi-project, everything you do is built around making KVM work for you in the real-world, helping you to interact and customize it as you need it. With further guidance on performance optimization for Microsoft Windows and RHEL virtual machines, as well as proven strategies for backup and disaster recovery, you'll can be confident that your virtualized data center is working for your organization – not hampering it. Finally, the book will empower you to unlock the full potential of cloud through KVM. Migrating your physical machines to the cloud can be challenging, but once you've mastered KVM, it's a little easie.
What you will learnExplore the ecosystem of tools that support Linux virtualizationFind out why KVM offers you a smarter way to unlock the potential of virtualizationImplement KVM virtualization using oVirtExplore the KVM architecture – so you can manage, scale and optimize it with easeMigrate your virtualized datacenter to the cloud for truly resource-efficient computingFind out how to integrate OpenStack with KVM to take full control of the cloudWho this book is forLinux administrators – if you want to build incredible, yet manageable virtualization solutions with KVM this is the book to get you there. It will help you apply what you already know to some tricky virtualization tasks.
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Humble Devassy Chirammal is a senior software engineer in the Storage Engineering team at Red Hat. He has more than 15 years of IT experience, and his area of expertise is in understanding the full stack in an ecosystem, with emphasis on architecting solutions based on demand. These days he primarily concentrates on Ceph and GlusterFS and its integration to container orchestrator systems like Kubernetes. He has hands-on experience of emerging technologies, such as IaaS and PaaS solutions in Cloud and Containers. In the past, he has worked on intrusion detection systems, Clustering solutions, and Virtualization. As an open source advocate, he is a core contributor to many open source projects like Kubernetes. He actively organizes meetups on Openshift/ Kubernetes, Virtualization, GlusterFS, CentOS.
Prasad Mukhedkar is a specialist cloud solution architect at Red Hat India with over 10 years of experience in helping customers in their journey to Virtualization and Cloud adoption. He is a Red Hat Certified Architect and has extensive experience in designing and implementing high performing cloud infrastructure. His areas of expertise are Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7/8 performance tuning, KVM virtualization, Ansible Automation, and Red Hat OpenStack. He is a huge fan of the Linux "GNU screen" utility.
Anil Vettathu began his association with Linux while in college and began his career as a Linux System Administrator soon after. He is a generalist, with an interest in open source technologies. He has hands-on experience in designing and implementing large scale virtualization environments using open source technologies and has extensive knowledge in libvirt and KVM. These days he primarily works on Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, containers, and real time performance tuning. Currently, he is working as a Technical Account Manager for Red Hat.
