Introduction to Linux System Administration with IBM Power Systems
This course introduces administrative tasks that a system administrator can perform with Linux hosted on IBM Power servers. This includes virtualization concepts such as logical partitioning, installation of Linux, command-line operations, and more interesting administration and device management tasks.
What you'll learn
This course introduces administrative tasks that a system administrator can perform with Linux hosted on IBM Power servers. This includes virtualization concepts such as logical partitioning, installation of Linux, command-line operations, and more interesting administration and device management tasks.
This course includes hands-on exercises with systems from an IBM data center.
Table of contents
- Welcome! 2m
- Introducing the Power Systems Family 6m
- Naming Convention 1m
- Virtualizing Your Servers 5m
- Managing Virtualization 7m
- The Hypervisor 2m
- Hardware Management Console (HMC) 3m
- Processor Concepts and Management 4m
- Additional Processor Concepts and Management 3m
- Resource Assignments 3m
- Checkpoint Quiz 1 Questions 0m
- Checkpoint 1 Quiz Answers 0m
- Basic Administration Differences and Console Access 4m
- Command Line Interface for Linux 5m
- Graphical User Interface for Linux 7m
- Yum and VNC Setup Demo 12m
- Networking in Linux 6m
- Software Repositories 4m
- Creating a Local Repository 5m
- Software Installation: Part 1 4m
- Software Installation: Part 2 8m
- Virtual Optical Media Overview 9m
- Virtual Media Repository 7m
- Exercise 2: System Management Tasks 0m
- Checkpoint Quiz 2 Questions 0m
- Checkpoint Quiz 2 Answers 0m
- Startup Managers 5m
- Introduction to Systemd 5m
- Systemd Units and Services 7m
- Systemd Targets and Ancillary Components 7m
- System Initialization Process Overview 5m
- System Initialization Deep Dive 9m
- Systemd Management Operations 9m
- Log Management 8m
- More Log Management 10m
- Exercise 3: Manage IBM Power Partitions and Rescue Operations 0m
- Quiz 2 Questions 0m
- Quiz 2 Answers 0m
About the author
Power Systems is a family of server computers from IBM that are based on its POWER processors. Power servers are highly secure and automated systems, designed with OpenStack-based cloud management, provide flexibility during the transition to cloud infrastructure. They are future-forward, flexible, cloud-ready servers with built-in PowerVM® virtualization for deploying the right scale-out cloud option for today's most demanding workloads.