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Getting Started with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
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Getting Started with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization

by Pradeep Subramaniaan
September 2014
Beginner
178 pages
4h 3m
English
Packt Publishing
Content preview from Getting Started with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization

Chapter 1. An Overview of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization

This introductory chapter will help you understand the following things before deploying and managing Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV):

  • Virtualization and its basic concepts
  • An overview of Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) RHEV
  • The RHEV architecture and its components
  • Hardware and software prerequisites

The virtualization overview

Hardware virtualization or platform virtualization allows multiple operating system instances to run concurrently on a single computer. This is a means of separating hardware from a single operating system. A hypervisor or Virtual Machine Monitor (VMM) is a piece of computer software that runs on host machine, which will allow you to create and manage the ...

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ISBN: 9781782167402