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Private Cloud Management on IBM Power Systems
  • Level Professional
  • Duration 14 hours
  • Course by IBM
  • Offered by

About

IBM PowerVC, an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) enabling software, provides a self-service cloud console for managing IBM Power Systems. It is built on OpenStack. OpenStack is a collection of open-source software projects that enterprises can use to run their own private cloud infrastructure. This course explains most cloud management features, starting with setting up a private cloud environment from the ground up. It then covers planning, sizing and other advanced administrative tasks you can perform to become an efficient system administrator.

Modules

Course overview

    • 1 Videos
    • 1 Discussion
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1 Discussions

  • Introduce yourself

1 Videos

  • Introduction

Introduction to OpenStack and IBM PowerVC

    • 6 Videos
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6 Videos

  • OpenStack components
  • OpenStack in detail
  • OpenStack summary
  • Introduction to IBM PowerVC
  • The need for IBM PowerVC
  • Introduction to IBM Cloud PowerVC Manager

Planning for your private cloud

    • 6 Videos
    • 1 Assignment
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1 Assignment

  • Checkpoint 1

6 Videos

  • Planning for IBM PowerVC setup
  • Planning for storage
  • Storage usage and configuration
  • Storage network planning
  • Ethernet network planning
  • Security and performance planning

Installation and upgrade

    • 3 Videos
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3 Videos

  • IBM PowerVC installation procedure
  • The installation
  • Update and upgrade of IBM PowerVC

User interfaces

    • 9 Videos
    • 1 Discussion
    • 2 ExternalTool
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2 External Tool

  • Exercise 1. Verification of Prerequisites
  • Exercise 2. GUI Fundamentals

1 Discussions

  • Lab access

9 Videos

  • Registering resources to be managed by PowerVC hosts
  • Adding storage resources
  • Introduction to storage providers
  • Configuring storage providers
  • Adding existing virtual machines
  • Performing management tasks on VMs
  • IBM PowerVC GUI (1 of 2)
  • IBM PowerVC GUI (2 of 2)
  • IBM PowerVC CLI

Week 1 graded quiz

    • 1 Assignment
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1 Assignment

  • Checkpoint 2

IBM PowerVC administrative tasks

    • 7 Videos
    • 1 ExternalTool
    • 1 Assignment
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1 Assignment

  • Checkpoint 3

1 External Tool

  • Exercise 3. Using the IBM PowerVC User Interfaces

7 Videos

  • Security and user management
  • Messages and logs
  • REST APIs
  • IBM PowerVC commands to manage services
  • Backup and restore
  • IBM PowerVC settings (1 of 2)
  • IBM PowerVC settings (2 of 2)

Week 2 graded quiz

    • 1 Assignment
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1 Assignment

  • Checkpoint 4

Managing images and virtual machines

    • 4 Videos
    • 2 ExternalTool
    • 1 Assignment
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1 Assignment

  • Checkpoint 5

2 External Tool

  • Exercise 4. Live and Regular Capture to Create Images
  • Exercise 5. Deploy a new VM from your image

4 Videos

  • Introduction to cloud images
  • Cloud-init concepts
  • Installing Cloud-init on Linux and AIX
  • Creating an image

More administrative tasks

    • 5 Videos
    • 2 ExternalTool
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2 External Tool

  • Exercise 6. Working with REST APIs
  • Exercise 7. Removal of Resources

5 Videos

  • Active Memory Expansion and Automated Remote Restart
  • Dynamic Resource Optimizer
  • Volume lifecycle and internal database
  • Managing projects in your private cloud
  • Other features

Week 3 graded quiz

    • 1 Assignment
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1 Assignment

  • Checkpoint 6

Auto Summary

Discover the essentials of managing private clouds with IBM Power Systems in this Professional level IT & Computer Science course. Led by Coursera, the course delves into IBM PowerVC and OpenStack, guiding you from setup to advanced administrative tasks in just 840 minutes. Ideal for aspiring system administrators, it offers comprehensive insights into planning, sizing, and efficient cloud management. Subscribe with Starter or Professional options and elevate your cloud management skills.

Bill Miller
Instructors

Bill Miller

Upendra Rajan
Instructors

Upendra Rajan