Oracle Private Cloud Appliance: Overview

Required Prerequisite

• Familiarity with creating and managing virtual machines
• Familiarity with configuring networks and storage in the data center and in a virtualized environment
• Familiarity with physical and virtual server system administration
• Familiarity with IaaS and PaaS concepts

Audience

• Administrator
• Analyst
• Developer
• Implementer
• Systems Administrator

Course Topics

Introduction 

• Advantages of virtualization and the Private Cloud Appliance
• Hardware components of Private Cloud Appliance
• Private Cloud Appliance networks and storage
• Accessing and using the Private Cloud Appliance dashboard
• Accessing and using the Private Cloud Appliance CLI

Viewing the Oracle VM Software Configuration 

• Discovery and provisioning of Oracle VM Servers
• Overview of Oracle VM in the Private Cloud Appliance
• Oracle VM pool and server configuration
• The role of OCFS2 in the Private Cloud Appliance
• Policies for effective resource consumption
• Introduction to interfaces for server pool, repository, and network management

Managing Oracle VM Repository Resources 

• Configuration of the Oracle VM repository
• Restrictions on modifying the Oracle VM repository
• Operations on ISO files for virtual machines
• Operations on virtual disks

Managing Oracle VM Server Networking and VLANs 

• Review of Private Cloud Appliance network concepts
• Supported VLAN segment and network configuration
• Creating VNICs

Managing Virtual Machines 

• Review of virtual machine-related terminology and concepts
• Creating and managing virtual machines
• Creating and managing templates
• Cloning virtual machines and templates

Providing Cloud Services with Oracle Enterprise Manager

• Configuring the Cloud Infrastructure Portal for the Private Cloud Appliance
• Provisioning servers using the Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Infrastructure Portal