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
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.