Training offering

IBM

IBM Systems Director VMcontrol 2.3 for Cloud Computing Infrastructure

Information

Length: 2 Days
Course code: AN961GB
Price £1,015 before tax

Session dates

Date Location
  • 01/11/2012 London
    £1,015 before tax
This training is also available as onsite training.
Please contact us on
0870 251 1000 or email training@arrowecs.co.uk
for more information.

Description

You 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, you will see how to automate the management of a virtualized infrastructure on Power. You 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 you 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

This course is for anyone responsible for implementing and managing a virtualized infrastructure on Power Systems. It 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 (AN77)

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