Oracle Private Cloud Appliance: Administration

COURSE TOPICS

Module 1 : Introduction and Installation

• Definition and purpose of Private Cloud Appliance
• Definitions of IaaS and PaaS
• Private Cloud Appliance definition and conceptual architecture
• Installation and related options and decisions
• Accessing and using the Private Cloud Appliance CLI

 Module 2 : Enterprise Deployment and Management of the Private Cloud Appliance

• Oracle’s Cloud Service Model for IaaS
• Enterprise Manager Cloud Control roles for IaaS
• Infrastructure Cloud administration for configuration and self service
• Infrastructure self service
• Monitoring the Private Cloud Appliance

 Module 3 : Oracle VM for the Private Cloud Appliance

• Oracle VM description
• Oracle VM components
• Oracle VM functional architecture
• Private Cloud Appliance repositories and server pools
• Policies and High Availability

 Module 4 : Deploying and Examining a Virtual Machine

• Steps to import and deploy virtual machines from a virtual appliance
• Steps to deploy virtual machine from a template
• Virtual machine life cycle
• Examine a virtual machine configuration
• Accessing and managing virtual machines using the command line interface

 Module 5 : Managing Oracle VM Networks and Storage

• Private Cloud Appliance and Oracle VM networking
• VLAN interfaces and VLAN networks
• Virtual NIC Tool
• Oracle VM Storage and management
• Repository structure
• Creating and managing repositories
• Cloning virtual disks

 Module 6: Creating and Packaging Virtual Machines

• Types of virtual machines
• Create a virtual machine from an ISO
• Simple and advanced cloning of virtual machines
• Prepare virtual machine for first-boot configuration
• Edit virtual machines

 Module 7: Virtual Machine Use Cases

• Clone multiple virtual machines from a single template
• Configure isolated VLANs and demonstrate isolation using ping
• Live migration
• Enterprise Manager virtual machine management

 Module 8: Appliance Rack Management

• Hardware configuration UI
• Using the Command Line Interface to manage the rack
• CLI task management
• Update procedure

Module 9: Appliance Server Management

• Managing management nodes
• Managing compute nodes

 Module 10: Appliance Network Management

• Ethernet management network
• Fabric interconnect internal configuration
• Server fabric
• Viewing network cards and network ports
• Creating and managing Private Cloud Appliance custom networks

 Module 11: Appliance Storage Management

• Storage network
• ZFS Storage Appliance
• Configuring external storage

 Module 12: Appliance Password Management

• Maintaining passwords
• Maintaining the appliance wallet

 Module 13: Appliance and Oracle VM System Backup

• Private Cloud Appliance storage components
• Appliance internal backup
• Virtual machine cloning for backup
• Repository Export

 Module 14: Appliance Disaster Recovery

• Enterprise Manager and Maximum Availability Architecture
• Transitions: Failover, switchover, business migration
• Virtual machine failover
• Network configuration requirements for virtual machine failover
• Storage configuration requirements for virtual machine failover

 Module 15: Tenant Groups and Partitioning

• Creating and managing tenant groups
• Hard, soft, and trusted partitioning

 Module 16: Capacity Planning and Management

• Memory and CPU allocation, and VM layout
• Network configuration planning
• Storage capacity planning