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Learn virtualization skills by building your own virtual machine

Virtualization Essentials, Second Edition provides new and aspiring IT professionals with immersive training in working with virtualization environments. Clear, straightforward discussion simplifies complex concepts, and the hands-on tutorial approach helps you quickly get up to speed on the fundamentals. You'll begin by learning what virtualization is and how it works within the computing environment, then you'll dive right into building your own virtual machine. You'll learn how to set up the CPU, memory, storage, networking, and more as you master the skills that put you in-demand on the job market. Each chapter focuses on a specific goal, and concludes with review questions that test your understanding as well as suggested exercises that help you reinforce what you've learned.

As more and more companies are leveraging virtualization, it's imperative that IT professionals have the skills and knowledge to interface with virtualization-centric infrastructures. This book takes a learning-by-doing approach to give you hands-on training and a core understanding of virtualization.

Understand how virtualization works
Create a virtual machine by scratch and migration
Configure and manage basic components and supporting devices
Develop the necessary skill set to work in today's virtual world

Virtualization was initially used to build test labs, but its use has expanded to become best practice for a tremendous variety of IT solutions including high availability, business continuity, dynamic IT, and more. Cloud computing and DevOps rely on virtualization technologies, and the exponential spread of these and similar applications make virtualization proficiency a major value-add for any IT professional. Virtualization Essentials, Second Edition provides accessible, user-friendly, informative virtualization training for the forward-looking pro.

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1119267722
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978-1119267720
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2
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Sybex
Publication date

19 August 2016
Language

English
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19.05 x 1.27 x 24.13 cm
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336 pages
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About the Author

Matthew Portnoy is a 30-year veteran of the IT industry. A Staff System Engineer at VMware, he is also an adjunct professor at Wake Tech Community College, where he has taught CIS classes since 2007. He has presented at VMworld, the leading virtualization conference, as well as at many other industry events and tradeshows including VMware User Group events.

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Learn Virtualization Quickly and Easily

More and more companies are leveraging virtualization, so it is critical that IT professionals have the latest knowledge and skills needed to work with virtualization-centric infrastructures. You'll acquire that knowledge as you work through this book and build your own virtual machine. Clear, straightforward instruction explains what virtualization is and how it works. Then you'll learn to set up the CPU, memory, storage, networking, and more. Each chapter focuses on a specific goal, enabling you to build a solid foundation in this career-essential discipline.

Learn these virtualization essentials and more:

How virtualization software operates within a computer environment
The difference between Type 1 and Type 2 hypervisors
How cloud computing leverages virtualization
Installing Windows or Linux on virtual machines
Managing CPUs, memory, storage, and networking
Configuring supporting devices for a virtual machine
Availability and technologies that protect individual virtual machines, virtualization servers, and entire datacenters
Methodology and practices for deploying applications in a virtual environment.

This striking Essentials book features:

Chapter-opening learning objectives
Step-by-step tutorials
Four-color screenshots and illustrations
Essentials and Beyond summaries and additional suggested exercises
Downloadable exercise files

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Sybex; 2 edition (19 August 2016)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 336 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1119267722
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1119267720
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 19.05 x 1.27 x 24.13 cm

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N. Rader

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Reviewed in Australia on 9 August 2019

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I come from no virtualisation background and found the book to be easy to read and comprehend.
Appreciate books still printed in the United States and this is one of them.
Nice spacing, text size is not too small, easy to grab and hold the book while reading.

Book definitely targeted at beginners and if you already are a professional in this field, the book is not for you.
My main concern is (like other reviewers mentioned) that, yes, it needs updating. Not in the context of the technology and its deployment but things like: software version numbers illustrated, talks about "...in 2010 the use of virtualisation is this..." when it's 2019 at the time of this review.

I believe if the publisher released Third Edition now (especially in this fast evolving IT generation), this book will be 6 stars. Book's easy to read, keeps you engaged, and content flow is in the right direction. If I have to get extra picky about this book, well, they could've printed in colour but then that will increase the cost of the paperback book.

Happy reading.

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V Paisley Wise

Great textbook

Reviewed in the United States on 12 May 2021

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Good book. Easy to read. Got an A in the class.

Mark Regan

Very good

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 June 2017

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As a long term IT dabbler and enthusiast I have enjoyed this book. It serves as a good introduction to Virtualisation and a handy reference.

Matt Portnoy obviously knows his stuff and manages to get this subject across without making it too dull or dry.

We start with what a virtual machine is and progresses through to networking and beyond.

I agree with others that a lot of the information is fairly easily on the Internet I find having a book with it all in very very handy to have, this is a great book, informative, accurate and well laid out.

Buddy Stephenson

Absolutely great book though

Reviewed in the United States on 21 April 2018

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Very concise, but maybe won't give you the biggest bank for your buck if you don't know much about how computers work already.
Absolutely great book though, easy read and the chapters stray from being verbose.

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Nora M Qudus

as good as most books

Reviewed in the United States on 25 March 2019

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The first thing they did when computers went mainstream was fire all the proof readers and editors....that said....it is as well written as it can be since so few people take a writing course and believe spell check is the god of the written word. If you need this book for a class get the cheapest version since well written it is not...easy to understand it is not, repetitive it is in spades!.

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Peter

Easy to read and practical overview of the subject

Reviewed in the United States on 16 July 2018

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Easy to read and practical overview of the subject. Very approachable and instructive for people new to virtualisation and it covers a range of topics and practices in the area.

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