XEN

This course discusses the fundamentals of the different approaches to
virtualization and their differences. You will learn where virtualization
makes sense and how to install and configure Xen. Various network setups
and guest systems will be explained.

Audience: System and network administrators who want to consolidate
existing systems or build test systems.

Prerequisits: Experience in Linux system administration and TCP/IP
networking

Topics:

The different kinds of virtualization
Strengths and weaknesses
Xen summary
Installing Xen on different Linux distributions
Configuring the Xen daemon
Network setup, bridge, router, NAT
LVM: logical volume-based or file-based
Installing and setting up guests
Automatic installation via xen-tools
Manual installation of clients
Installing Windows as a guest
SAN via ISCSI
Offline/online migration of guests
Managing resources (RAM, CPU)

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