Toward Virtual Machines High Availability

This book is intended to serve as a good resource for those interesting in virtualization technology; specifically, operating system virtualization. In general, I have not gone in depth into any type of OS virtualization, however, this book gives a sufficiently detailed description about the available different types of OS virtualization, their architecture, and covers the cons and pros of OS virtualizations. My expectation is that this book provides considerable detailed analysis, design, and the implementation of how the virtual machines recovery process can be automated using ZFS snapshots and multi-agent system. In a virtual environment, it is possible that the virtual environment might crash or froze, or the virtualized operating system suffers from virus or worm infection, thus, automating the recovery process increases the availability of the monitored virtual machines.