Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.4
Administration Tasks in Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
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Abstract
This book contains information and procedures relevant to Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization administrators.
- Preface
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Using the Administration Portal
- I. Administering the Resources
- 3. Data Centers
- 4. Clusters
- 5. Logical Networks
- 6. Hosts
- 7. Storage
- 8. Working with Red Hat Storage
- 9. Virtual Machines
- 9.1. Introduction to Virtual Machines
- 9.2. Supported Virtual Machine Operating Systems
- 9.3. Virtual Machine Performance Parameters
- 9.4. Creating Virtual Machines
- 9.5. Explanation of Settings and Controls in the New Virtual Machine and Edit Virtual Machine Windows
- 9.6. Configuring Virtual Machines
- 9.7. Editing Virtual Machines
- 9.8. Running Virtual Machines
- 9.9. Removing Virtual Machines
- 9.10. Virtual Machines and Permissions
- 9.11. Snapshots
- 9.12. Affinity Groups
- 9.13. Importing and Exporting Virtual Machines
- 9.14. Migrating Virtual Machines Between Hosts
- 9.15. Improving Uptime with Virtual Machine High Availability
- 9.16. Other Virtual Machine Tasks
- 10. Templates
- 11. Pools
- 12. Virtual Machine Disks
- 13. External Providers
- II. Administering the Environment
- 14. Updating the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Environment
- 14.1. Upgrades between Minor Releases
- 14.2. Upgrading to Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.4
- 14.3. Upgrading to Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.3
- 14.4. Upgrading to Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager 3.2
- 14.5. Upgrading to Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager 3.1
- 14.6. Post-upgrade Tasks
- 15. Backups
- 16. Users and Roles
- 17. Quotas and Service Level Agreement Policy
- 17.1. Introduction to Quota
- 17.2. Shared Quota and Individually Defined Quota
- 17.3. Quota Accounting
- 17.4. Enabling and Changing a Quota Mode in a Data Center
- 17.5. Creating a New Quota Policy
- 17.6. Explanation of Quota Threshold Settings
- 17.7. Assigning a Quota to an Object
- 17.8. Using Quota to Limit Resources by User
- 17.9. Editing Quotas
- 17.10. Removing Quotas
- 17.11. Service-level Agreement Policy Enforcement
- 18. Event Notifications
- 19. Utilities
- 20. Log Files
- 21. Proxies
- III. Gathering Information About the Environment
- A. Firewalls
- B. VDSM and Hooks
- B.1. VDSM
- B.2. VDSM Hooks
- B.3. Extending VDSM with Hooks
- B.4. Supported VDSM Events
- B.5. The VDSM Hook Environment
- B.6. The VDSM Hook Domain XML Object
- B.7. Defining Custom Properties
- B.8. Setting Virtual Machine Custom Properties
- B.9. Evaluating Virtual Machine Custom Properties in a VDSM Hook
- B.10. Using the VDSM Hooking Module
- B.11. VDSM Hook Execution
- B.12. VDSM Hook Return Codes
- B.13. VDSM Hook Examples
- C. Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization User Interface Plugins
- C.1. Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization User Interface Plug-ins
- C.2. Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization User Interface Plugin Lifecycle
- C.3. User Interface Plugin-related Files and Their Locations
- C.4. Example User Interface Plug-in Deployment
- C.5. Installing the Red Hat Support Plug-in
- C.6. Using Red Hat Support Plug-in
- D. Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and SSL
- E. Using Search, Bookmarks, and Tags
- F. Branding
- G. Revision History