Virtualization with Xen: Including XenEnterprise, XenServer, and XenExpress

Virtualization with Xen is the first book to demonstrate to readers how to install, administer, and maintain a virtual infrastructure based on XenSource's latest release, Xen 3.2. It discusses best practices for setting up a Xen environment correctly the first time, maximizing the utilization of server assets while taking advantage of the fastest and most secure enterprise-grade paravirtualization architecture. It covers both basic and advanced topics, such as planning and installation, physical-to-virtual migrations, virtual machine provisioning, resource management, and monitoring and troubleshooting guests and Xen hosts.

• Xen has the lead in the open-source community; now distributed as a standard kernel package for Novell's SLES 10 and Red Hat's RHEL 5 and Fedora Core 6 Linux distributions
• Covers installation, administration, management, monitoring, and deployment planning and strategies

bout the Editor

David E. Williams is a principal at Williams & Garcia, LLC, a consulting practice based in Atlanta, GA, specializing in effective enterprise infrastructure solutions. He specializes in the delivery of advanced solutions for x86 and x64 environments. Because David focuses on cost containment and reduction of complexity, virtualization technologies have played a key role in his recommended solutions and infrastructure designs. David has held several IT leadership positions in various organizations, and his responsibilities have included the operations and strategy of Windows, open systems, mainframe, storage, database, and data center technologies and services. He has also served as a senior architect and an advisory engineer for Fortune 1000 organizations, providing strategic direction on technology infrastructures for new enterprise-level projects.

David studied Music Engineering Technology at the University of Miami, and he holds MCSE+I, MCDBA, VCP, and CCNA certifications.