Kenneth Hess is the virtualization columnist at Linux Magazine. His column covers all aspects and types of virtualization from desktop to server to cloud. Kenneth has used just about every type of virtualization product available since 1999 and was a beta tester of the original VMware product line. He also writes the Linux blog on DaniWeb and the Cover Your Assets column on Internet.com’s ServerWatch. You’ll also find Kenneth on the air weekly at The Frugal Tech Show’s Frugal Friday. His day job with HP involves virtualization and web hosting at an enterprise level.
Amy Newman has been following the virtualization space since 2001. She has been blogging about it since 2006 in her weekly column, Virtually Speaking. Virtually Speaking provides analysis of news and trends on everything virtual from hypervisors to hardware. The column appears weekly on Internet.com’s Server-Watch. Amy has been managing editor of ServerWatch since 1999 and Enterprise IT Planet since 2009. Prior to that, she was a research editor at Gartner, where she edited and managed the workflow of four monthly research deliverables related to software infrastructure.
Foreword xv
Acknowledgments xvii
About the Authors xix
Preface xxi
Part I: Virtualization Basics and Technology Choices 1
Chapter 1: To Virtualize or Not to Virtualize? 3
Chapter 2: Comparing Virtualization Technologies 17
Chapter 3: VMware Server 25
Chapter 4: VMware ESXi 47
Chapter 5: Citrix XenServer 67
Chapter 6: Microsoft Virtual PC 87
Chapter 7: Microsoft Hyper-V 103
Chapter 8: VirtualBox 113
Part II: Applying Virtualization 135
Chapter 9: Server Virtualization in Action 137
Chapter 10: Desktop Virtualization in Action 161
Chapter 11: Network and Storage Virtualization in Action 175
Part III: Building the Virtual Infrastructure: Hardware's Role in Virtualization 191
Chapter 12: Form-Factor Choices and Their Implications 193
Chapter 13: Choosing a Vendor 205
Chapter 14: Beyond the Box 223
Part IV: From Development to Production: Managing the Virtual Infrastructure 237
Chapter 15: Laying the Foundation: The Planning Stage 239
Chapter 16: Deployment 253
Chapter 17: Postproduction: Wrapping It Up 265
Appendix: Virtual Machine Installation 273
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