Categories: Linux administration, Virtualization
During the course participants install and configure Xen and KVM/Qemu on their computers and see VMware, VirtualBox, OpenVZ and Linux-VServer working on the instructor’s machine.
On request, we customize this course to focus on any chosen virtualization technology.
Duration
2 days
Agenda
- Virtualization theory, full virtualization, paravirtualization
- Xen
- capabilities
- installation, preparing the server, migrating servers to a virtualized environment
- managing and partitioning hardware, performance analysis
- configuration, planning a virtual network infrastructure
- user space tools, console
- migrating a live session
- KVM and Qemu
- capabilities
- installation
- configuration
- migrating virtual machines
- server tuning
- An overview of Linux virtualization technologies
- VirtualBox
- installation
- configuration
- command line tools
- VMware
- technology introduction, product overview
- virtual machine description
- configuration
- snapshots
- Linux-VServer
- technology characteristics
- configuration
- OpenVZ
- configuration
- Lguest
- User-Mode-Linux
- VirtualBox
Audience and prerequisites
This course targets at least intermediate-level Linux system administrators.
Certificates
Course participants receive completion certificates signed by ALX.
