Introduction to Private Cloud Management on IBM Power Systems
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.
What you'll learn
IBM Cloud PowerVC Manager, 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.
Table of contents
- OpenStack Components 7m
- OpenStack Components in Detail 19m
- OpenStack Components Summary 3m
- Introduction to IBM PowerVC 8m
- What is PowerVC and why would we use it 12m
- Introduction to IBM Cloud PowerVC Manager 7m
- Planning for IBM PowerVC Setup 9m
- Planning for Storage 10m
- Storage Use and Configuration 4m
- Storage Network Planning 10m
- Ethernet Network Planning 6m
- Security and Performance Planning 8m
- Checkpoint Quiz 1 Questions 0m
- Checkpoint Quiz 1 Answers 0m
- IBM PowerVC Installation Procedure 4m
- The Installation 8m
- Update and Upgrade of IBM PowerVC 12m
- Adding Resources to IBM PowerVC 10m
- Adding Storage Resources 14m
- Introduction to Storage Providers 4m
- Configuring Storage Providers 10m
- Adding Existing Virtual Machines 7m
- Performing Management Tasks on VMs 10m
- IBM PowerVC GUI (1 of 2) 9m
- IBM PowerVC GUI (2 of 2) 10m
- IBM PowerVC CLI 7m
- IBM Lab Access Link 0m
- Exercise 1: Verification of Prerequisites 0m
- Exercise 2: GUI Fundamentals 0m
- Quiz 1 Questions 0m
- Quiz 1 Answers 0m
- Security and User Management 12m
- Messages and Logs 7m
- Rest API's 8m
- IBM PowerVC Commands to Manage Services 3m
- Backup and Restore 7m
- IBM PowerVC Settings (1 of 2) 8m
- IBM PowerVC Settings (2 of 2) 11m
- Checkpoint 2 Questions 0m
- Checkpoint 2 Answers 0m
- Exercise 3: Using the IBM PowerVC User Interfaces 0m
- Quiz 2 Question 0m
- Quiz 2 Answers 0m
About the author
IBM is the global leader in business transformation through an open hybrid cloud platform and AI, serving clients in more than 170 countries around the world. Today 47 of the Fortune 50 Companies rely on the IBM Cloud to run their business, and IBM Watson enterprise AI is hard at work in more than 30,000 engagements. IBM is also one of the world’s most vital corporate research organizations, with 28 consecutive years of patent leadership. Above all, guided by principles for trust and transparenc... more