O T echs for HiTechs

Cloud Computing Training

DAY ONE:Introduction To Cloud Computing and Virtualization

(Three Hours)

• Virtualization Fundamentals.• The Purpose of Virtualization.• Benefits of Virtualization• System Virtualization (Server, Desktop)• Application Virtualization.• Cloud Computing Fundamentals.• Cloud Service Models.• Cloud Deployment Models.• Security of Cloud Computing• Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery

DAY TWO:Introduction To CloudStack [Part One]

(Three Hours)

• Overview of CloudStack• Cloud Strategies• Problem Definition• CloudStack Architecture• CloudStack Core Components• Feature set overview• CloudStack Network• CloudStack Storage

DAY THREE:Introduction To CloudStack [Part Two]

(Three Hours)

• MS internals• CloudStack Workflow• CloudStack Plugins• System VMs• System Interactions• CloudStack High Availability• Roadmap• Comparisons

DAY FOUR:CloudStack Administration [Part One]

(Three Hours)

• Concepts◦ What is CloudStack?◦ What CloudStack Do?◦ Deployment of Cloud Stack

• CloudStack Infrastructure Concepts◦ Zones, Pods, Clusters and Hosts◦ Primary and Secondary Storage

• Physical Networks• CloudStack Accounts

◦ Accounts, Users and Domains

DAY FIVE:CloudStack Administration [Part Two]

(Three Hours)

• User Services Overview◦ Service Offerings, Disk Offerings, Network Offerings and

Templates• User Interface

◦ Login to the UI◦ Using SSH Keys for Authentication

• Using Projects◦ Overview of Projects◦ Configuring Projects◦ creating a New Project◦ Adding members to a Project◦ Accepting a membership Invitation◦ Suspending or Deleting a Project◦ Using the Project View

DAY SIX:CloudStack Administration [Part Three]

(Three Hours)

• Steps to Provisioning Cloud Infrastructure◦ Overview of Provisioning Steps◦ Adding Zones, Pods, Clusters and Hosts◦ Adding primary and Secondary storage◦ Initializing and Test.

• Service Offerings◦ Compute and Disk Service Offerings◦ System Service Offerings

• Setting up Networking for Users◦ Overview of Setting up Networking for Users◦ About Virtual Networks◦ Network Service Providers◦ Network Offerings

DAY SEVEN:CloudStack Administration [Part Four]

(Three Hours)

• Working with Virtual Machines◦ Best Practices for VMs◦ VM Life Cycle◦ Creating Vms◦ Accessing Vms◦ Stoping and Starting VMs◦ Changing the VM name, OS and Group.◦ Creating a Service Offering for a VM◦ Moving VM between hosts.◦ Deleting Vms◦ Working with ISOs

• Working with Hosrs◦ Adding Hosts◦ Scheduled Maintenance and Maintenance Mode for◦ Hosts◦ Disabling and Enabling Zones, Pods, and Clusters◦ Removing Hosts◦ Re-Installing Hosts◦ Maintaining Hypervisors on Hosts◦ Changing Host Password◦ VLAN Provisioning

DAY EIGHT:CloudStack Administration [Part Five]

(Three Hours)

• Working with Templates◦ Creating Templates: Overview◦ Requirements for Templates◦ Best Practices for Templates◦ The Default Template◦ Private and Public Templates◦ Creating a Template from an Existing Virtual Machine◦ Creating a Template from a Snapshot◦ Exporting Templates◦ Creating a Windows Template◦ Importing Amazon Machine Images◦ Converting a Hyper-V VM to a Template◦ Adding Password Management to Your Templates◦ Deleting Templates

• Working With Storage◦ Storage Overview◦ Primary Storage◦ Secondary Storage◦ Working With Volumes◦ Working with Snapshots

DAY NINE:CloudStack Administration [Part Six]

(Three Hours)

• Working with Usage◦ Configuring the Usage Server◦ Setting Usage Limits◦ Globally Configured Limits◦ Default Account Resource Limits◦ Per-Domain Limits

• Managing Networks and Traffic◦ Guest Traffic◦ Networking in a Pod◦ Networking in a Zone◦ Basic Zone Physical Network Configuration◦ Using Multiple Guest Networks◦ Security Groups◦ External Firewalls and Load Balancers◦ Guest IP Ranges◦ Acquiring a New IP Address◦ Releasing an IP Address◦ Static NAT◦ IP Forwarding and Firewalling◦ IP Load Balancing◦ DNS and DHCP◦ About Inter-VLAN Routing◦ Configuring a Virtual Private Cloud◦ Management Server Load Balancing

DAY TEN:CloudStack Administration [Part Seven]

(Three Hours)

• Working with System Virtual Machines◦ The System VM Template◦ Multiple System VM Support for Vmware◦ Console Proxy◦ Virtual Router◦ Secondary Storage VM

• System Reliability and High Availability◦ HA for Management Server◦ HA-Enabled Virtual Machines◦ HA for Hosts◦ Primary Storage Outage and Data Loss◦ Secondary Storage Outage and Data Loss

• Managing the Cloud◦ Using Tags to Organize Resources in the Cloud◦ Changing the Database Configuration◦ Administrator Alerts◦ Customizing the Network Domain Name◦ Stopping and Restarting the Management Server