Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: An Overview of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization; The virtualization overview; Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM); Features of RHEV; Supported virtual machine operating systems; RHEV architecture; Components of RHEV; The hardware and software requirement of RHEV; Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager; The Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor host; The Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager client; Firewall Requirements; Summary.
Chapter 2: Installing RHEV Manager and Hypervisor HostsEnvironment mapping; Setting up the RHEL operating system for the manager; Registering with Red Hat Network; Installing the RHEV-Manager packages; Running the initial engine setup; Connecting to the admin and user portal 006C; RHEV reporting; Installing the RHEV history database and report server; Accessing the RHEV report portal; Deploying RHEV Hypervisor; Installing the hypervisor; Configuring the hypervisor; Summary; Chapter 3: Setting Up the RHEV Virtual Infrastructure; Configuring RHEV; Data centers; Clusters.
Approving hypervisor hostsLogical networks; Adding logical networks; Storage domains; Adding a data domain to store virtual machines; Adding a data domain of other storage types; Activating the ISO domain; Populate ISO images on an ISO domain; Configuring and activating an export domain; Summary; Chapter 4: Creating and Managing Virtual Machines; Virtual machines; Creating Linux virtual machines; General settings; System settings; Initial Run settings; Console settings; Host settings; High Availability settings; Resource Allocation settings; Boot Options settings; Custom Properties.
Adding virtual disksInstalling Red Hat Enterprise Linux on a virtual machine; Installing guest agents and drivers on RHEL guests; Creating Windows virtual machines; Installing VirtIO drivers during the Windows installation; Guest agents and driver installation on Windows guests; Virtual machine templates; Creating a Red Hat Enterprise Linux template; Cloning a RHEL virtual machine from a template; Creating a Windows template; Virtual machine snapshots; Creating snapshots; Restoring virtual machines from the snapshot; Creating a virtual machine from the snapshot.
Deleting a virtual machine snapshotBacking up virtual machines to export disks; Exporting a virtual machine and template; Importing a virtual machine and template; Summary; Chapter 5: Virtual Machine and Host High Availability; Virtual machine''s live migration; Advantages of live migration; The requirements of live migration; Manual live migration; Cold migration; Cancelling migration; Virtual machine''s high availability; Automatic virtual machine migration; The migration priority; Disabling the automatic virtual machine migration; The host''s high availability; Manual fencing.
