Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 004.35
EAN: 9781593271862
Edition: 1
ISBN: 1593271867
Label: No Starch Press
Manufacturer: No Starch Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 312
Publication Date: October 08, 2009
Publisher: No Starch Press
Studio: No Starch Press

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Xen, the open source virtualization tool, is a system administrator's dream. Xen is a free, high-performance virtual machine monitor that lets you consolidate your hardware and finally put those unused cycles to use—without sacrificing reliability, performance, or scalability.

The Book of Xen explains everything you need to know in order to use Xen effectively, including installation, networking, memory management, and virtualized storage. You'll also learn how to use Xen and standard Linux tools to take snapshot backups, perform QoS operations on network traffic, and limit over-aggressive disk users.

Authors Chris Takemura and Luke S. Crawford show you how to:

Provide virtual hosting for dozens of users, each with their own individual needs

Install and manage multiple guests, including various flavors of Linux, NetBSD, Solaris, and Windows

Choose the right virtual storage options for your needs

Migrate your systems seamlessly and create new images

Tune and benchmark your systems to make them as fast as possible

Troubleshoot Xen's most common problems like network and memory management

Expert advice is priceless when it comes to running a complicated open source virtualization technology like Xen. You'll get the advice you need in The Book of Xen.

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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: - Take Xen to a new level with this practical book
The Book of Xen (TBOX) is a great book for Linux system administrators who want to deploy Xen. The authors ground their recommendations in over four years of experience running Xen to support Internet-facing virtual private servers. I found their writing style to be very engaging; it reminded me of reading any one of Michael Lucas' No Starch books. If you know your way around Linux and want to deploy Xen in production, TBOX is the book for you.

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Rating: - Great Book
Most Xen documentation on the Internet can be a tad focused on the single-computer, single-admin personal-use xen administration case. This book, thankfully, is not.This is definitely the book to keep on your shelf if you require tips and tricks for setting up your own VPS hosting service, with its world full of malevolent users needing to be kept in their place, quotas for bandwidth, disk I/O, CPU time, and memory usage, and allowing your users to configure their own instances without you having to ... Read More

Rating: - A core addition to any technology collection
The less you pay, the more you can get. "The Book of Xen: A Practical Guide for the System Administrator" is a guide to the open source tool known as Xen. For administrators, Xen can prove to be a solid back up tool that will allow access for many in your company, no matter what operating system they use, while being easy to manage. With plenty of troubleshooting tips, Chris Takemura & Luke S. Crawford prove their expertise by giving the complete and comprehensive instruction manual that the program does ... Read More

Rating: - Awesome book, gets right to the point
I've read this book as well, and I can say I absolutely LOVE it. I'm not sure if I agree with the other reviewer's analysis of the book, it seems like he comes from a non-technical background and prefers to want to know all the reasoning behind certain ways to do a proper Xen setup. I've been using Xen for the last 1.5 years and I can say this book is absolutely essential for anyone using Xen on 2 or more computers. I own a mini cloud with my own miniature cluster of Xen instances (roughly 60 virtual machines), ... Read More