Course Duration
3 days
Course Overview
Xen is an open-source virtualisation technology providing the ability to run multiple operating systems on one physical machine. Due to the nature of Xen, there is only a minimal loss of performance of the operating systems when compared to a native install.
Several operating systems are supported including Solaris®, Linux®, FreeBSD®, Windows® and NetBSD®.
The Xen Virtualisation course is based on the open-source version of Xen using Enterprise Linux 5 as the host operating system. The course starts by giving an overview of virtualisation methods and continues with the installation of Xen on Enterprise Linux 5 and installation and management of various hosts operating systems.
Who should attend
Experienced Linux Administrators who require to utilise Xen virtualisation to host a number of operating systems.
Course Topics
Xen and virtualisation overview
What are virtual machines, virtualisation, paravirtualisation?
Installation of Xen on RHEL5
Use of yum and installing Xen from source
Creation of Xen virtual machines
Installing Kubuntu, NetBSD, Solaris & Windows as guests
Xen management tools
Use of xm, XenMan & virt-manager
Xen networking
Configuring bridged and routed networking
Xen storage options
Storing options including UFS, LVM & NFS
Encrypting guest filesystems
Securing the guest operating systems with encryption
Migration of Xen instances
Saving and restoring domains. Live migration
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