Virtualiza training

• General info
• Syllabus
• Programme
• Enrolment

• 1Virtualization

  • 1. Introduction and basic concepts
  • 2. Types of virtualization
  • 3. Virtualization on x86 platforms
  • 4. Use cases

• 2Xen

  • 1. Introduction and basic concepts
  • 2. Installation
    • - Packages in a Debian GNU/Linux system
    • - Compiling from source
  • 3. Configuration
    • - Domains
    • - The Xen environment
    • - Network topologies

• 3Administration of domains

  • Domain migration

• 4Management of physical resources

  • 1. I/O PCI peripherals
  • 2. Storage
  • 3. CPU

• 5Disc volumes with LVM

  • 1. Basic storage administration
  • 2. Backups with snapshots

• 6Storage consolidation

  • 1. NAS NFS
  • 2. SAN iSCSI
    • - iSCSI Enterprise Target
    • - Open-iSCSI
  • 3. SAN AoE
    • - vbladed
    • - aoe-tools
  • 4. Other alternatives: NAS, drbd

• 7Redundant storage access (multipathing)

• 8Configuration of VLAN for user domains

• 9HA with Heartbeat

Practical exercises

• Installing Xen: packages and compiling from source.
• Initial configuration of Xen.
• Installation and configuration of a Linux (Debian) VM.
• Installation and configuration of a Windows VM.
• Administrating virtualized hardware.
• Configuration of NFS storage.
• Configuration of network storage with iSCSI Enterprise Target.
• Configuration of the Open-iSCSI initiator.
• Multipath access to the network storage.
• Hot migrating virtual servers.
• Configuration of Heartbeat to create an HA cluster.