The Virtualization Cookbook for IBM z/VM 6.3, RHEL 6.4, and SLES 11 SP3

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Create RHEL 6.4 appliances

“The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.”

— Albert Einstein

After you have the ability to clone generic Linux servers, it is relatively easy to customize them for specific tasks given the variety of open source tools included with Linux distributions. These customized virtual servers can be thought of as appliances.

This chapter describes four types of appliances:

•“Create a web server appliance” on page 206

•“Create an application development appliance” on page 210

•“Create an LDAP server appliance” ...

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