Oracle Private Cloud Appliance: Administration Ed 2
The Oracle Private Cloud Appliance: Administration course teaches students about administration of the Private Cloud Appliance to provide Infrastructure as a Service. The course also teaches the policy driven provisioning of application servers, and management of the hardware configuration. The primary focus areas of this course include the administration of storage, network, memory, and CPU resources, and the management and monitoring of the Private Cloud Appliance components.
Duration: 20-25hrs
Course Content:
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Appliance Rack Management
- Hardware configuration UI
- Using the Command Line Interface to manage the rack
- CLI task management
- Update procedure
Appliance Server Management
- Managing management nodes
- Managing compute nodes
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
Appliance Storage Management
- Storage network
- ZFS Storage Appliance
- Configuring external storage
Appliance Password Management
- Maintaining passwords
- Maintaining the appliance wallet
Appliance and Oracle VM System Backup
- Private Cloud Appliance storage components
- Appliance internal backup
- Virtual machine cloning for backup
- Repository Export
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
Tenant Groups and Partitioning
- Creating and managing tenant groups
- Hard, soft, and trusted partitioning
Capacity Planning and Management
- Memory and CPU allocation, and VM layout
- Network configuration planning
- Storage capacity planning