Virtualization Getting Started Guide Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Dayle Parker

• Table of Contents
• ⁠Chapter 1. Introduction
  • ⁠1.1. Who should read this guide?
  • ⁠1.2. Virtualization in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • ⁠1.3. Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV)
  • ⁠1.4. Documentation suite
• ⁠Chapter 2. What is virtualization and migration?
  • ⁠2.1. What is virtualization?
  • ⁠2.2. Migration
    • ⁠2.2.1. Benefits of migrating virtual machines
  • ⁠2.3. Virtualized to virtualized migration (V2V)
• ⁠Chapter 3. Advantages and misconceptions of virtualization
  • ⁠3.1. Virtualization costs
  • ⁠3.2. Virtualization learning curve
  • ⁠3.3. Performance
  • ⁠3.4. Disaster recovery
  • ⁠3.5. Security
    • ⁠3.5.1. Virtualization security features
  • ⁠3.6. Virtualization for servers and individuals
    • ⁠3.6.1. Virtualization deployment scenarios
• ⁠Chapter 4. Introduction to Red Hat virtualization products
  • ⁠4.1. KVM and virtualization in Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  • ⁠4.2. libvirt and libvirt tools
  • ⁠4.3. Virtualized hardware devices
    • ⁠4.3.1. Virtualized and emulated devices
    • ⁠4.3.2. Para-virtualized devices
    • ⁠4.3.3. Physical host devices
  • ⁠4.4. Guest CPU models
  • ⁠4.5. Storage
    • ⁠4.5.1. Storage pools
    • ⁠4.5.2. Storage volumes
    • ⁠4.5.3. Emulated storage devices
    • ⁠4.5.4. Host storage
• ⁠Chapter 5. Virtualization Tools
  • ⁠5.1. virsh
  • ⁠5.2. virt-manager
  • ⁠5.3. virt-install
  • ⁠5.4. guestfish
  • ⁠5.5. Other useful tools
• ⁠Appendix A. Revision History