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About the Club

Cloud Club Topics - Computer virtualization

Questions

  1. What is virtualization?
  2. What makes a computer virtual?
  3. How do we virualize a computer?
  4. How many virtual computers or machines ( VMs ) can we have on a single computer?

Hypervisors

  1. What is a hypervisor?
  2. Hypervisor Type
    1. Type 1 runs on physical computers and have direct access to the hardware
      1. Examples
        1. VMware ESXi
        2. Proxmox
        3. Microsoft Hyper-V
    2. Type 2 runs on another operating system
      1. Examples
        1. Apple Parallels
        2. VMware Player
        3. Oracle VirtualBox

Plan your installation

  1. Create a checklist of configuration
    1. Operating System
      1. Linux
      2. Windows
      3. Mac OS
      4. Unix
      5. Other?
    2. Hostname
    3. IP configuration
      1. IPv4 or IPv6
      2. IP address ( if IPv4 )
      3. Subnet mask ( if IPv4 )
      4. Default gateway address ( if IPv4 )
    4. Storage / disk configuration
      1. Partitions
      2. Volumes
      3. Volume format
        1. Ext ( 2 / 3 / 4 )
        2. Btrfs
        3. ZFS
        4. NTFS
      4. Logical Volume Management ( LVM )
        1. Physical Volumes ( PVs )
        2. Volume Groups ( VGs )
        3. Logical Volums ( LVs )
    5. Software
      1. What type of server functionality will it serve?
      2. Security software?
      3. Security configurations - we'll get into this later
      4. Can you service multiple services on the same server? Should you?

Installing Proxmox

  1. Download and burn the CD ( or DVD )
  2. Power on the server
  3. Insert the CD/DVD into the drive
  4. Ensure you boot from the disk
  5. Follow the wizzard to configure
  6. Login to the management interface