Detailed Course Outline
Oracle VM Manager UI and Oracle VM CLI
- Review the major components of Oracle VM
- Discuss the management interfaces to the Oracle VM Manager application
- Describe the control elements and authentication for the Oracle VM Manager UI
- Customize the Oracle VM Manager UI session
- Access the Oracle VM CLI and and view the Oracle VM CLI logs
- Learn how to use the Oracle VM CLI commands and custom commands
- Customize the Oracle VM CLI session
- Use the Oracle VM CLI with simple scripts and by using Expect scripts
Oracle VM Web Services
- Introduce the Oracle VM Web Services and describe the role of the Oracle VM Web Services
- Describe the REST interaction for the Oracle VM Web Services
- Learn basic authentication with REST interaction
- Demonstrate a GET and POST request with REST by using Python examples
- Describe the SOAP interaction to the Oracle VM Web Services
- Discuss REST vs SOAP usage for Oracle VM Web Services
- Examine the structure of the Oracle VM Web Services SDK file
Managing Virtual Machines
- Discuss Oracle VM virtualization modes and how to convert an HVM guest to PVM mode
- Learn how to create a virtual machine with installation media and by importing templates, assemblies, virtual machines and virtual disks
- Learn to use the P2V tool to create new templates from legacy hosts
- Use cloning and migration
- Discuss Inbound Migration Lock as a way to protect resources of a running virtual machine
- Make changes to your virtual machines: Add network devices, disk resources and CPU and memory resources
Oracle VM Guest Additions
- Describe the Oracle VM Guest Additions feature and lists its benefits
- Install the Oracle VM Guest Additions in a virtual machine
- Use the messaging facility provided by the Oracle VM Guest Additions
- Explain the role of the Oracle VM Template configuration feature
- Learn the role of scripts and targets with Oracle VM Template configuration feature
- Prepare a virtual machine for first-boot configuration and test the configuration
Operations
- Discover and rediscover Oracle VM servers and explain the discovery process
- Remove Oracle VM servers from server pools, delete Oracle VM servers and re-install Oracle VM Servers
- Perform operations on server pools: Add or remove Oracle VM servers, cluster operations and fencing
- Discuss repository ownership: Oracle VM Manager ownership and cluster ownership
- Present/unpresent repositories to Oracle VM servers, create repository exports, delete repositories, release ownership of a repository and reclaim its ownership
- Perform refresh operations in the Oracle VM environment
Troubleshooting
- Use various sources to identify problems: Logs, job details and events
- Perform health check on Oracle VM Manager and Oracle VM server components
- View and modify iSCSI multipathing information on Oracle VM servers
- Run the VMPinfo3 tool and view the tool report
- Configure Kdump and netconsole on Oracle VM servers
- Generate core dumps automatically and manually for virtual machines
- Configure serial console access for Oracle Linux guests
Backup and Restore - D/R Concepts
- Identify components that need to be backed up and discuss guidelines for backup operations
- Backup and restore the Oracle VM Manager MySQL database
- Recover from the loss of the Oracle VM Manager MySQL database
- Learn the Oracle VM-centric and guest-centric approaches to protecting virtual machines
- Use recovery scenarios to learn how to rebuild your Oracle VM environment
- Learn the importance of cluster IDs and network IDs during recovery operations
- Apply recovery information to D/R design