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XenServer Administration Handbook

Practical Recipes for Successful Deployments

By: Tim Mackey, J.K. Benedict

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eText | 5 April 2016 | Edition Number 1

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Packed with practical advice, this hands-on guide provides valuable information you need to most effectively optimize and manage the XenServer open source virtualization platform. Whether you run a modest installation of a few blades or multiple global enterprise datacenters, this book focuses on the most critical issues you're likely to encounter when designing a XenServer deployment and helps you handle day-to-day management tasks.

Tim Mackey and J.K. Benedict from Citrix Systems, the company that manages XenServer, show you how to design a deployment through best practices, deployment blueprints, and installation guidelines. The book's second part features concise, easy-to-implement recipes for day-to-day management, such as user rights, backup strategies, and hardware maintenance.

Learn precisely what makes a XenServer work, and how it can host 1000 virtual machines
Explore the core components of a production XenServer environment
Investigate several options on how and where to install XenServer
Examine several factors for "right sizing" your XenServer deployment to fit your needs
Work with a decision tree to optimize your XenServer deployment design
Understand how to accommodate guest VM virtualization modes
Use recipes that help you plan for, obtain, and apply XenServer upgrades