Citrix XenServer 6.0 Administration Essential Guide电子书

Citrix XenServer 6.0 Administration Essential Guide

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Citrix XenServer 6.0 Administration Essential Guide

Credits

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the example code

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Introducing XenServer Resource Pools

XenServer resource pool overview

XenServer resource pool requirements

Creating a XenServer resource pool

Creating a heterogeneous XenServer resource pool

Designating a new pool master host

Removing a XenServer host from a resource pool

Preparing a XenServer host for maintenance

Licensing XenServer

Activating a free edition

Activating a non-free edition

Summary

2. Managing User Authentication

User management overview

Authenticating users with Active Directory

Understanding Active Directory authentication

Enabling Active Directory authentication on a pool

Disabling Active Directory Authentication

User authentication

Removing access for a user using the CLI

Role Based Access Control overview

Roles and Permissions

Definitions of RBAC Roles and Permissions

Calculating RBAC roles

Assigning roles to users and groups

Assigning or changing a role to a user or group

Summary

3. Managing Storage Repositories

Storage overview

Storage technologies and protocols

Direct Attached Storage

Storage Area Network (SAN)

Network Attached Storage (NAS)

Storage protocols

Network File System (NFS)

Fibre Channel (FC)

Internet Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI)

Storage in XenServer

Storage Repository (SR)

Virtual Disk Images (VDIs)

Storage attributes

Physical Block Devices (PBDs)

Virtual Block Devices (VBDs)

Creating Storage Repositories

Creating a Storage Repository

Creating a new NFS VHD Storage Repository

Creating a new software iSCSI Storage Repository

Creating a new hardware HBA Storage Repository

Creating a new StorageLink Repository

Creating a new ISO Storage Repository

Managing Storage Repositories

Reattaching an SR

Adding a Storage Repository

Storage multipathing

Enabling multipathing

Summary

4. Creating Virtual Machines

Overview of virtual machines

XenServer Tools

Overview of virtual machines creation

Using VM templates

Converting a physical machine to virtual

Importing an exported VM

Cloning an existing VM

Creating virtual machines

Creating a Windows virtual machine

Installing the XenServer Tools package

Creating a Windows virtual machine using xe CLI

Creating a Windows machine

Renaming the virtual disk

Resizing the disk

Installing a DVD drive on a virtual machine

Summary

5. Managing Virtual Machines

Managing virtual machines

Cloning a virtual machine

Creating a template

Importing and exporting virtual machines

Open Virtualization Format (OVF)

Importing a virtual machine from an OVF/OVA package

Importing disk images

Importing VMs from XVA

Exporting a virtual machine

Converting a physical machine

Managing vApps

Creating a vApp

Importing and exporting a vApp

Summary

6. Managing XenServer and Virtual Machine Memory

XenServer memory overview

Virtual machine memory overview

Understanding Dynamic Memory Control

Managing virtual machine memory

Summary

7. Managing XenServer Networking

XenServer networking

Initial network configuration

Networking and XenServer Pools

Network types

Managing networking

Changing networking configuration

Adding and modifying virtual networks

Configuring management interfaces

Managing VLANs

Connecting a virtual machine to a VLAN

Managing bonds

Active/Active bonding

Active/Passive bonding

Creating an NIC Bond

Distributed vSwitch Controller overview

Deploying the Distributed vSwitch Controller

Managing the Distributed vSwitch Controller

Viewing the status of a Distributed vSwitch Controller

Address and virtual machine groups

Managing Access Control List rules

Setting Port Configuration Policies

Summary

8. Managing High Availability and Snapshots

Overview of High Availability

Setting restart priorities

Configuring High Availability

Managing host and virtual machines with High Availability

Shutting down or rebooting a host with HA enabled

Shutting down a protected VM

Managing snapshots

Working with snapshots

Creating a snapshot

Restoring a VM to a previous state

Deleting a snapshot

Creating a template from a snapshot

Creating a virtual machine from a snapshot

Exporting a snapshot

Summary

9. Protecting and Monitoring XenServer

Overview of backup and virtual machine protection

Backing up your XenServer environment

Restoring from failures

Protection and recovery of virtual machines

Creating a VM protection policy

Managing VM protection policies

Assigning a VM to an existing VM protection policy

Recovering a virtual machine from snapshots

Overview of Workload Balancing

Installing Workload Balancing Virtual Appliance

Configuring Workload Balancing

Managing Workload Balancing settings

Adjusting Optimization Mode

Adjusting Workload Balancing automation

Changing Critical Thresholds and Metric Weightings

Excluding hosts from recommendations

Controlling automated recommendations

Monitoring performances with Workload Balancing

Generating reports

Chargeback Utilization Analysis

Host Health History

Pool Optimization Performance History

Pool Audit Trail

Pool Health

Pool Health History

Pool Optimization History

Virtual Machine Motion History

Virtual Machine Performance History

Summary

A. Supported Guest Operating Systems and Virtual Machine Templates

Overview of supported guest virtual machines

Virtual machine templates

B. Applying Updates and Hotfixes

Applying a hotfix or update using XenCenter

Applying a hotfix or update using the command line

Index