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Subject:    New draft redbook: Virtualization Cookbook Volume 2: RHEL 7.1
From:       John McKown <john.archie.mckown () gmail ! com>
Date:       2015-07-13 17:07:27
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The Virtualization Cookbook for IBM z Systems Volume 2: Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 7.1

​http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redpieces/abstracts/sg248303.html?Open

<abstract>
Abstract

This IBM ® Redbooks ® publication is Volume 2 of a series of three books
called The Virtualization Cookbook for IBM z Systems . The other two
volumes are called:
The Virtualization Cookbook for IBM z Systems Volume 1: IBM z/VM ® 6.3,
SG24-8147
The Virtualization Cookbook for IBM z Systems Volume 3: SUSE Linux
Enterprise Server 12, SG24-8890
It is recommended that you start with Volume 1 of this series as IBM z/VM
is the base "layer" when installing Linux on z Systems. Volume 1 starts
with an introduction, discusses planning, then describes z/VM installation
into a two-node single system image (SSI) cluster, configuration,
hardening, automation, and servicing. It adopts a cookbook format that
provides a concise, repeatable set of procedures for installing and
configuring z/VM using the Single System Image (SSI) clustering feature.

Volumes 2 and 3 describe how to roll your own Linux virtual servers on IBM
z Systems hardware under IBM z/VM. The cookbook format continues with
installing and customizing Linux.

Volume 2 focuses on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). It consists of the
following chapters:
Chapter 1, "Install RHEL on LNXADMIN" on page 3, describes how to install
and configure RHEL 6.4 onto the Linux Administration server, which does the
cloning and other tasks.

Chapter 2, "Automated RHEL installations using kickstart" on page 27,
describes how to use Red Hat's kickstart tool to create Linux systems. This
is fundamentally different from cloning in that an automated installation
is implemented. You can try kickstart and you can also try cloning.
Understand that they try to accomplish the same goal of being able to
quickly get Linux systems up and running, and that you do not need to use
both.

Chapter 3, "Service RHEL with Red Hat Customer Portal" on page 37,
describes how the Red Hat Network works. It provides centralized management
and provisioning for multiple RHEL 6.4 systems.

Kickstart is a very easy and fast way to provision you Linux guests in any
supported Linux platform. It re-creates the operating system (OS) from
scratch by using the kickstart profile configuration file that installs the
new OS unintended and sets up the new guest according to what was
predefined in the kickstart file.

Usually, Linux administration is done by the same team that manages Linux
on all platforms. By using kickstart, you can create a basic profile that
can be used in all supported platforms and customize Linux profiles as
needed.

Cloning is another technique to provision Linux guests. This requires a
better understanding of the z/VM environment and z/VM skills. It is a very
fast process if the client has the FLASHCOPY feature enabled. It basically
clones the discs from a golden image to new discs that will be used by the
new Linux guest. The process can be automated using the cloning scripts
supplied with this book..
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