Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 362 pages
- Published by: For Dummies December 5, 2007
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0470148314
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0470148310
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Book Dimensions:
9.3 x 7.4 x 1 inches
- Weighs: 15.2 ounces
Product Description
Virtualization has become a “megatrend”—and for good reason. Implementing virtualization allows for more efficient utilization of network server capacity, simpler storage administration, reduced energy costs, and better use of corporate capital. In other words: virtualization helps you save money, energy, and space. Not bad, huh?
If you’re thinking about “going virtual” but have the feeling everyone else in the world understands exactly what that means while you’re still virtually in the dark, take heart.
Virtualization for Dummies gives you a thorough introduction to this hot topic and helps you evaluate if making the switch to a virtual environment is right for you.
This fun and friendly guide starts with a detailed overview of exactly
what virtualization is and exactly
how it works, and then takes you on a tour of the benefits of a virtualized environment, such as added space in overcrowded data centers, lower operations costs through more efficient infrastructure administration, and reduced energy costs through server consolidation.
Next, you’ll get step-by-step guidance on how to:
- Perform a server virtualization cost versus benefit analysis
- Weigh server virtualization options
- Choose hardware for your server virtualization project
- Create a virtualized software environment
- Migrate to—and manage—your new virtualized environment
Whether you’re an IT manager looking to sell the idea to your boss, or just want to learn more about how to create, migrate to, and successfully manage a virtualized environment,
Virtualization for Dummies is your go-to guide for virtually everything you need to know.
About The Author
Bernard Golden has been called “a renowned open source expert” (IT Business Edge) and “an open source guru” (SearchCRM.com) and is regularly featured in magazines like
Computerworld, InformationWeek, and
Inc. His blog “The Open Source” is one of the most popular features of CIO Magazine’s Web site. Bernard is a frequent speaker at industry conferences like LinuxWorld, the Open Source Business Conference, and the Red Hat Summit. He is the author of
Succeeding with Open Source, (Addison-Wesley, 2005, published in four languages), which is used in over a dozen university open source programs throughout the world. Bernard is the CEO of Navica, a Silicon Valley IT management consulting firm.
Reader ReviewsA great book!!! As an industry consultant and Technical Advisor to several companies struggling with their expanding requirements for fault tolerant infrastructure, I found this book to be the most useful so far for IT technologists and decision makers who need to get their arms around the ramifications of all of this. I was familiar with Bernard Golden's CIO magazine articles and insightful book "Succeeding with Open Source" and was pleased to discover he had also written a book covering the fast moving and diverse topic of Virtualization. It is written in a conversational style that contains very clear, succinct conceptual information and technical details interspersed with very pertinent and well-focused stories. The writing style and very well organized structural approach to the topics makes this book very readable by technology analysts, CIOs, and technical project managers who need to be able see the big picture of the "forest through the trees" in order to understand the total corporate ROI issues with virtualization technology. Conversely, the book is well suited to industry technologist and software engineers who want to obtain a quick basic working knowledge of the "detailed roots" of the virtualization technology but otherwise would never have been exposed to the broader applicability and global consequences of this very fundamental nuts-and-bolts software. The well-organized structure of the book as independent parts, each containing independent chapters, makes it possible to pick and chose what information or level of technical detail is of interest to the reader while still allowing for interrelated topics to be introduced in the proper logically dependent sequence. Chapters such as "Performing a Server Virtualization Cost-Benefit Analysis", "Managing a Virtual Project", "Migrating to Your New Virtualized Environment", "Managing Your Virtualized Environment", and "Creating a Virtualized Storage Environment" are precisely what CIOs, IT managers, and technologists need to know! The chapters on implementing Vmware Server, Fedora Virtualization, and Xen servers are precisely the basic bare-bones installation overview information IT engineers need to know so they can quickly deploy Virtualization evaluation/prototyping environments and start getting their fingernails dirty. Of course they will probably want/need to augment this general installation information with more specific details of each corresponding VM environment once they have it up and running. The only improvement I would suggest is additional information on the Amazon Web Services Elastic Compute Cloud (AWS EC2). Though there are at least two full and very insightful pages dedicated to this topic highlighting its benefits and current shortcomings, EC2 is evolving so fast it may merit its own sub-chapter. Perhaps in the next edition of this book!
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