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Virtualization Infrastructure Administration

Virtualization Infrastructure Administration. Virtual machine Jakub Yaghob. What is virtual machine?. VM is Set of virtual HW on which a supported guest OS and its applications run A set of discrete files Virtual machine configuration . vmx. Virtual machine HW. VMware tools.

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Virtualization Infrastructure Administration

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  1. Virtualization Infrastructure Administration Virtual machine Jakub Yaghob

  2. What is virtual machine? • VM is • Set of virtual HW on which a supported guest OS and its applications run • A set of discrete files • Virtual machine configuration • .vmx

  3. Virtual machine HW

  4. VMware tools • Install them into guest OS • Set of supported OS/prepared Tools • Possibility to compile Tools on *nix machines • Paravirtualized virtual HW • VMXNET3 • Better mouse movement in console • VM heartbeat • Graceful shutdown for guest OS

  5. Templates • Create and provision VMs • Reduce VM creation time • Master image • Guest OS • Applications • Specific VM configuration • Creating a template • Clone the VM to a template • Convert the VM to a template • Clone a template • Deploying a template • Can be deployed across datacenters

  6. Hot-adding devices • Certain devices can be added, while the VM is running • USB • Ethernet adapter • Hard disk • SCSI adapter • CPU • RAM • Guest OS must support hot-add

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