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Mastering KVM Virtualization

You're reading from   Mastering KVM Virtualization Dive in to the cutting edge techniques of Linux KVM virtualization, and build the virtualization solutions your datacentre demands

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781784399054
Length 468 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Mastering KVM Virtualization
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Understanding Linux Virtualization FREE CHAPTER 2. KVM Internals 3. Setting Up Standalone KVM Virtualization 4. Getting Started with libvirt and Creating Your First Virtual Machines 5. Network and Storage 6. Virtual Machine Lifecycle Management 7. Templates and Snapshots 8. Kimchi – An HTML5-Based Management Tool for KVM/libvirt 9. Software-Defined Networking for KVM Virtualization 10. Installing and Configuring the Virtual Datacenter Using oVirt 11. Starting Your First Virtual Machine in oVirt 12. Deploying OpenStack Private Cloud backed by KVM Virtualization 13. Performance Tuning and Best Practices in KVM 14. V2V and P2V Migration Tools Converting a Virtual Machine into a Hypervisor Index

Getting acquainted with oVirt data center and cluster


An oVirt data center is like a physical data center. It has multiple servers and various storage and network options. Every oVirt data center needs a cluster, a data storage domain, and a logical network named ovirtmgmt.

The purpose of an oVirt cluster is to group its hypervisor or oVirt nodes. A data center can have multiple clusters. In general, hypervisors in an oVirt cluster have same CPUs and the same network configurations. Another name for an oVirt cluster is migration domain, as you can only live migrate virtual machines within hypervisors in a cluster.

Every hypervisor in an oVirt data center should have access to the storage domain created for the data center. If you cannot give access for storage to any of the hypervisors, then you have to create a new data center and cluster for them.

Initiating an oVirt data center

Let's first create a data center by performing the following steps:

  1. Go to the oVirt engine page and click on Administration...

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