Agenda

Virtualisation

Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 5 ships as standard with features that allow it to provide a highly available virtualisation environment. This includes a hypervisor, virtual guest management tooling, and clustering technologies.

The aim of this track is to demonstrate these features, along with some upcoming virtualisation tools.

P2V

A common requirement is to take a bare metal system and convert this to a virtual guest image on a hypervisor system. The resulting guest system image will then be used for the rest of the track.

Managing single virtguest and cloning into three

Virtualisation makes it easy to clone guest systems. During this session, we'll be looking at ways to achieve this, and some of the systems management features provided by Red Hat Enterprise Linux Virtualisation.

Create a virtual cluster

Using the inbuilt clustering technology, and a second hypervisor system, we will now cluster the two hypervisors. This will allow us to treat the virtual guest system as an Highly Available resource. We will demonstrate live migration of the image, and automatic failover when the hypervisor the guest is running on dies.

Time	Theme of presentation
13:00	Welcome
13:10	PV2
13:50	Managing single virtguest and cloning into three
14:30	Coffee break
14:45	Convert 3 cloned guests to virt cluster
15:20	Q & A
15:30	Drinks and snacks