1.3. Further reading


Red Hat offers a wealth of documentation solutions across its various virtualization products. Coverage of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and its inbuilt virtualization products includes:
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux — Virtualization Getting Started Guide: This guide provides an introduction to virtualization concepts, advantages, and tools, and an overview of Red Hat virtualization documentation and products.
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux — Virtualization Host Configuration and Guest Installation Guide: This guide covers the installation of virtualization software and configuration of guest machines on a virtualization host.
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux — Virtualization Administration Guide: This guide covers administration of hosts, networking, storage, and device and guest management using either virt-manager or virsh as primary configuration tools. This guide also includes a libvirt and QEMU reference, as well as troubleshooting information.
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux — Virtualization Security Guide: This guide provides an overview of virtualization security technologies provided by Red Hat. Also included are recommendations for securing hosts, guests, and shared infrastructure and resources in virtualized environments.
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux — Virtualization Tuning and Optimization Guide: This guide provides tips, tricks and suggestions for making full use of virtualization performance features and options for your systems and guest virtual machines.
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux — V2V Guide: This guide describes importing virtual machines from KVM, Xen and VMware ESX/ESX(i) hypervisors to Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and KVM managed by libvirt.
The Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization documentation suite provides information on installation, development of applications, configuration and usage of the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization platform and its related products.
  • Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization — Installation Guide: This guide describes how to prepare for and set up a Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization environment, and how to upgrade a Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization environment to the latest release. It also outlines how to set up hypervisors and perform initial configuration of a Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization environment.
  • Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization — Administration Guide: This guide describes how to configure and administer a Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization environment after that environment has been set up for the first time, including how to add hypervisors, storage domains, and external providers to the environment, how to manage resources such as virtual machines, virtual disks, and templates, and how to take and restore backups.
  • Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization — User Guide: This guide describes how to use the User Portal of a Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization environment, including the functionality provided by the Basic and Extended tabs, how to create and work with virtual machines and templates, and how to monitor resource usage.
  • Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization — Technical Guide: This guide describes how to use the REST API, the Python and Java software development kits, and command-line tools specific to Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization. It also outlines the underlying technical concepts behind Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization.
  • Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization — Manager Release Notes: This guide contains information on the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager specific to the current release.
  • Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization — Technical Notes: This guide describes the changes that have been made between the current release and the previous release.

Note

All of the guides for these products are available at the Red Hat Customer Portal: https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/
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