Virtualization tasks

You can plan for, deploy, and manage virtual systems, and learn about the tools available to help you complete each task.

Virtualizing a system consists of the following high-level tasks:

1. Plan your virtualization configuration
2. Deploy your virtualization configuration
3. Manage your virtual resources and virtual systems

Throughout this book, versions of the following figure are used in the task topics to help you quickly understand where you are in the overall virtualization task flow:

The following sections provide further explanation of the planning, deploying, and managing stages of the virtualization task flow. Each section includes a description of subtasks and tools that can help you complete each stage.

You can also use the Planning and Deploying Virtual Servers e-Learning course to learn about the overall process and tools available to help you plan for and deploy virtualization on your system. The Planning and Deploying Virtual Servers course provides the following information:

• The benefits of employing a virtualization strategy and how logical partitions can help answer server management challenges.
• The process for planning and deploying logical partitions, and introduces the tools that can assist you. Specifically, it provides a high-level tutorial of the System Planning Tool.
• Example scenarios of companies that have planned and deployed virtualization technologies using these tools.

To view the Planning and Deploying Virtual Servers e-Learning course, see Learning and tutorials.