3 Virtualization
3 Virtualization
Objectives:
Upon completion of this section, you will:
Xenserver as an example.
LAB:
Install Xenserver and Xencenter.
VMs running on
2002 LXC was 2011
launched.
mainframes. Xen was IBM, Red Hat, HP,
1999 officially open 2008 and Intel formed
sourced. By default, RHEL 6.0 the Open
VMware launched
supported KVM as Virtualization
x86-based
the only Alliance to
virtualization
virtualization option. accelerate KVM
products.
adoption.
Important Concepts in Compute
Virtualization:
Physical environment Virtualization environment
Guest OS:
Operating system running in a virtual
machine (VM)
Application Application
Guest Machine:
Virtual machine created through
Host OS Guest OS virtualization
Hypervisor:
Guest Machine
Virtualization software layer, or
Virtual Machine Monitor (VMM)
Virtual Machine
Monitor
(Hypervisor) Host OS:
Operating system running in
a physical machine
Host Machine Host Machine
Host Machine:
Physical machine
Types of Compute Virtualization:
App App
VM VM VM App Hypervisor
Hypervisor Host OS
Hardware Hardware
VMware Server.
Oracle VM VirtualBox.
Microsoft Hyper-V.
Citrix Xenserver.
Oracle VM.
Citrix Xenserver:
Is an open source server virtualization platform based on
the Xen hypervisor.
Citrix also offers a supported version that you can
purchase, with two options: Standard and Enterprise.
This platform is used by virtualization administrators to
deploy, host and manage VMs.
It's also used to distribute hardware resources -- CPU,
memory, networking, storage -- to VMs.
LAB:
Install Xenserver and Xencenter.