Oracle Private Cloud Appliance: Administration (D94331) – Outline

Detailed Course Outline

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
  • Policies and High Availability
Deploying and Examining a Virtual Machine
  • Repository location for template
  • Steps to deploy virtual machine from a template
  • Virtual disk images
  • Virtual machine networking
  • Virtual machine life cycle
Managing Oracle VM Networks and Storage
  • Oracle VM networking
  • VLAN segments and networks
  • VNIC creation
  • Oracle VM Storage
  • Repository structure
  • Creating repositories
  • Cloning virtual disks
Creating and Packaging Virtual Machines
  • Types of virtual machines
  • Create a virtual machine from an ISO
  • Clone template virtual machine to template
  • Prepare virtual machine for first-boot configuration
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