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| Introduction | |
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| Understanding Virtualization | |
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| Describing Virtualization | |
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| Microsoft Windows Drives Server Growth | |
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| Explaining Moore's Law | |
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| Understanding the Importance of Virtualization | |
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| Examining Today's Trends | |
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| Virtualization and Cloud Computing | |
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| Understanding Virtualization Software Operation | |
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| Virtualizing Servers | |
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| Virtualizing Desktops | |
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| Virtualizing Applications | |
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| Understanding Hypervisors | |
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| Describing a Hypervisor | |
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| Exploring the History of Hypervisors | |
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| Understanding Type 1 Hypervisors | |
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| Understanding Type 2 Hypervisors | |
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| Understanding the Role of a Hypervisor | |
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| Holodecks and Traffic Cops | |
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| Resource Allocation | |
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| Comparing Today's Hypervisors | |
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| VMware ESX | |
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| Citrix Xen | |
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| Microsoft Hyper-V | |
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| Other Solutions | |
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| Understanding Virtual Machines | |
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| Describing a Virtual Machine | |
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| Examining CPU in a Virtual Machine | |
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| Examining Memory in a Virtual Machine | |
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| Examining Network Resources in a Virtual Machine | |
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| Examining Storage in a Virtual Machine | |
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| Understanding How a Virtual Machine Works | |
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| Working with Virtual Machines | |
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| Understanding Virtual Machine Clones | |
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| Understanding Templates | |
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| Understanding Snapshots | |
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| Understanding OVF | |
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| Creating a Virtual Machine | |
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| Performing P2V Conversions | |
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| Investigating the Physical-to-Virtual Process | |
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| Hot and Cold Cloning | |
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| Loading Your Environment | |
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| Exploring VMware Player | |
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| Building a New Virtual Machine | |
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| Thinking About VM Confi guration | |
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| Creating a First VM | |
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| Installing Windows on a Virtual Machine | |
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| Loading Windows into a Virtual Machine | |
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| Installing Windows 7 | |
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| Installing VMware Tools | |
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| Understanding Confi guration Options | |
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| Optimizing a New Virtual Machine | |
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| Installing Linux on a Virtual Machine | |
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| Loading Linux into a Virtual Machine | |
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| Installing Linux into a Virtual Machine | |
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| Installing VMware Tools | |
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| Understanding Confi guration Options | |
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| Optimizing a New Linux Virtual Machine | |
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| Managing CPUs for a VM | |
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| Understanding CPU Virtualization | |
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| Confi guring VM CPU Options | |
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| Tuning Practices for VM CPUs | |
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| Choosing Multiple vCPUs vs. a Single vCPU | |
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| Hyper-Threading | |
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| Working with Intel and AMD Servers | |
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| Managing Memory for a Virtual Machine | |
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| Understanding Memory Virtualization | |
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| Confi guring VM Memory Options | |
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| Tuning Practices for VM Memory | |
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| Calculating Memory Overhead | |
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| Memory Optimizations | |
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| Managing Storage for a Virtual Machine | |
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| Understanding Storage Virtualization | |
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| Confi guring VM Storage Options | |
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| Tuning Practices for VM Storage | |
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| Managing Networking for a Virtual Machine | |
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| Understanding Network Virtualization | |
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| Confi guring VM Network Options | |
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| Tuning Practices for Virtual Networks | |
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| Copying a Virtual Machine | |
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| Cloning a Virtual Machine | |
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| Working with Templates | |
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| Saving a Virtual Machine State | |
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| Creating a Snapshot | |
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| Merging Snapshots | |
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| Managing Additional Devices in Virtual Machines | |
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| Using Virtual Machine Tools | |
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| Understanding Virtual Devices | |
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| Confi guring a CD/DVD Drive | |
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| Confi guring a Floppy Disk Drive | |
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| Confi guring a Sound Card | |
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| Confi guring USB Devices | |
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| Confi guring Graphic Displays | |
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| Confi guring Other Devices | |
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| Understanding Availability | |
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| Increasing Availability | |
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| Protecting a Virtual Machine | |
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| Protecting Multiple Virtual Machines | |
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| Protecting Datacenters | |
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| Understanding Applications in a Virtual Machine | |
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| Examining Virtual Infrastructure Performance Capabilities | |
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| Deploying Applications in a Virtual Environment | |
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| Understanding Virtual Appliances and vApps | |
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| Index | |