Practical Virtualization Solutions: Virtualization from the Trenches (Paperback)

The 100% Practical Guide to Making Virtualization Work in Real Enterprise Environments

If you’re involved in planning, deploying, or managing virtualization, this book brings together all the field-proven, in-the-trenches answers and solutions you’ll need. Packed with examples and case studies, Practical Virtualization Solutions is a complete, self-paced, hands-on guide to creating a virtualized environment and driving maximum value from it throughout its entire lifecycle.

Kenneth Hess and Amy Newman present detailed costs, schedules, and deployment plans drawn from actual enterprise virtualization projects. You’ll learn what really works and what doesn’t and discover powerful ways to systematically control the costs of virtualization and streamline its management. The authors offer realistic guidance on choosing the best services to virtualize; selecting the right virtualization software, hardware, and vendor partners; troubleshooting and securing virtualized environments; and much more. Along the way, they answer crucial questions IT professionals face in working with virtualization.

Coverage includes

• Quantifying the time, hardware, labor, and downtime needed to implement virtualization
• Streamlining the transition from physical to virtual
• Comparing VMware ESXi, VMware Server, Microsoft Hyper-V, Citrix XenServer, and other virtualization technologies
• Identifying opportunities to reduce cost and improve flexibility with open source virtualization technologies
• Explaining advanced techniques for simplifying virtual machine management
• Defining the right role for virtualization in networking and storage
• Automating virtual infrastructure management tasks

《百分之百實用的虛擬化工作指南：在真實企業環境中實現虛擬化的完整解決方案》

如果您參與虛擬化的規劃、部署或管理工作，本書將為您提供所有經過實踐驗證的解答和解決方案。《實用虛擬化解決方案》充滿了實例和案例研究，是一本完整的、自學式的、實踐性指南，教您如何建立虛擬化環境並在其整個生命周期中獲得最大價值。

Kenneth Hess和Amy Newman提供了來自實際企業虛擬化項目的詳細成本、進度和部署計劃。您將學習到真正有效的方法，以及不起作用的方法，並發現系統地控制虛擬化成本和簡化管理的強大方式。作者提供了選擇最佳虛擬化服務、選擇合適的虛擬化軟件、硬件和供應商合作夥伴、疑難排解和保護虛擬化環境等現實指導。在此過程中，他們回答了IT專業人員在虛擬化工作中面臨的重要問題。

內容包括：

- 量化實施虛擬化所需的時間、硬件、人力和停機時間
- 簡化從物理到虛擬的過渡
- 比較VMware ESXi、VMware Server、Microsoft Hyper-V、Citrix XenServer和其他虛擬化技術
- 辨識使用開源虛擬化技術降低成本和提高靈活性的機會
- 解釋簡化虛擬機管理的高級技術
- 確定虛擬化在網絡和存儲中的正確角色
- 自動化虛擬基礎設施管理任務