Training offering

IBM Systems Director VMControl 2.3 for a Cloud Computing Infrastructure

Description

Students attending this course will learn how to implement and use IBM Systems Director VMControl 2.3 on Power Systems. The course shows how IBM Systems Director helps in a cloud architecture, and focuses on the management of virtual servers and virtual appliances in a virtualized environment. Using VMControl 2.3, the students will see how to automate the management of a virtualized infrastructure on Power. They will also learn how to improve workload resiliency and how to reduce deployment time for new virtual servers. VMControl is a plug-in for IBM Systems Director. This course does not cover IBM Systems Director implementation.

Hands-on lab exercises reinforce each lecture and give the students practical experience.

Objectives

•    Describe the basic concepts associated with cloud computing
o    Describe the differences between a private cloud and a public cloud
•    Discuss how IBM Systems Director VMControl facilitates the cloud computing on Power Systems
•    Describe and explain the VMControl terminology, such as virtual server, virtual appliance, image repository, OVF image, and system pools
•    Describe the capabilities of IBM Systems Director VMControl 2.3 plug-in, such as:
o    Create and manage virtual servers, virtual appliances, and workloads
o    Create and discover image repositories
o    Create and manage system pools
•    Install IBM Systems Director VMControl 2.3 plug-in on an IBM Systems Director management server 6.2
•    Navigate IBM Systems Director VMControl 2.3 Dashboard user interface
•    Perform tasks utilizing IBM Systems Director VMControl on selected managed end-points
•    Capture virtual servers
•    Deploy virtual appliances using local storage pools
•    Describe the basic concepts of server system pools

Participants

Anyone responsible for implementing and managing a virtualized infrastructure on Power Systems.
The audience for this training includes the following:
•    AIX technical support individuals
•    System administrators
•    System engineers
•    System architects

Prerequisite(s)

The IBM Systems Director prerequisite can be met by attending the following class:
•    IBM Systems Director 6.2 Management Techniques for POWER (AN94)

Options

Day 1
•    Welcome
•    Unit 1: Introduction to cloud computing
•    Unit 2: IBM Systems Director VMControl overview
•    Exercise 1: Introduction to the lab environment
•    Unit 3: IBM Systems Director VMControl 2.3 planning and installation
•    Exercise 2: Installing and configuring IBM Systems Director VMControl 2.3 on an IBM Director server
•    Unit 4: IBM Systems VMControl user interface and common management tasks
•    Exercise 3: Navigating the VMControl user interface
Day 2
•    Unit 5: Managing virtual appliances and image repository
•    Exercise 4: Creating virtual appliances
•    Unit 6: Virtual appliance deployment
•    Exercise 5: Deploying a virtual appliance
•    Unit 7: Introduction to VMControl server system pools
•    Unit 8: IBM Systems Director VMControl 2.3 problem determination
•    Exercise 6: IBM Systems Director VMControl 2.3 problem determination
•    Optional exercise: Accessing a DS6800 storage subsystem with IBM Systems Director Storage Manager extension