[[Category:OPS235]][[Category:OPS235 Labs]]

=OPS235 Lab 2: Fedora 16 Installation Methods (on Virtual Machines)=

:* '''Server consolidation''' -- Reducing the number of physical servers in a network by moving physical machines to virtual machines. This saves hardware, administration, cooling, and electricity costs, and it can increase the utilization of hardware (by ensuring that the hardware is not under-loaded).

:* '''Load-balancing and disaster recovery''' -- It is possible to migrate virtual machines between different physical machines, to ensure that a workload is balanced across multiple computers, to allow routine hardware maintenance and upgrading, and to compensate for hardware failure or other disasters.

'''In this lab, you will create three virtual machines'''. This also gives you an opportunity to experiment with different ways of installing Fedora. Later in this course you will install another operating system distribution in a virtual machines.

You should already have both a Fedora installation DVD and a Fedora LIVE CD. In both cases, the boot media (which you used to load the installation software) and the installation source (where the software that got installed came from) were the same: your CD/DVD provides both. However, the Fedora (and most other Linux distributions) permits you to use any combination of boot media and installation media:

* '''Boot Media:'''

** CD or DVD

** USB flash drive

** Network boot

* '''Installation Source:'''

** CD or DVD

** Network HTTP or NFS software repository

== Objectives ==