S Oracle Private Cloud Appliance: Administration

Oracle Private Cloud Appliance: Introduction and Installation

• Objectives
• Oracle Private Cloud Appliance
• Advantages of Virtualization with the Private Cloud Appliance
• Hardware and Software Configuration: Overview
• Overview of Cloud Services
• Installing the Private Cloud Appliance
• Network Connections
• Quiz
• Summary
• Practice 1: Overview

Enterprise Deployment and Management of the Private Cloud Appliance

• Objectives
• Oracle’s Cloud Service Model
• Oracle’s IaaS
• Enterprise Manager Administrative Roles
• Logging In and Creating Administrators for IaaS
• Logging In to Create Administrators
• Creating IaaS Admin
• Viewing IaaS User
• Quiz
• The Private Cloud Appliance Zone
• Configuring the Infrastructure Cloud Self Service Portal
• Configuring Infrastructure Cloud Self Service: Machine Sizes
• Configuring Infrastructure Cloud Self Service: Request Settings
• Configuring Infrastructure Cloud Self Service: Roles
• Configuring Infrastructure Cloud Self Service: Software Components
• Configuring Infrastructure Cloud Self Service: Chargeback
• Quiz
• Infrastructure Cloud Self Service Portal
• Infrastructure Cloud Self Service Requests
• Infrastructure Cloud Self Service Servers
• Infrastructure Cloud Self Service Chargeback
• Infrastructure Cloud Self Service Library
• Infrastructure Cloud Self Service Policies
• Quiz
• Requesting Servers
• Quiz
• Private Cloud Appliance as a Target
• Oracle Private Cloud Appliance as a Target
• Private Cloud Appliance as a Target
• Appliance to Oracle VM Virtual Target View
• Oracle VM Virtual Target View
• Quiz
• Summary
• Practice 2: Overview

Oracle VM in the Private Cloud Appliance

• Objectives
• Application-Driven Virtualization with Oracle VM
• Oracle VM Manager with Oracle VM Server for x86
• Oracle VM: Main Components
• Server Virtualization
• Templates and Virtual Appliances
• Quiz
• Oracle VM Virtualization Architecture
• Server Management, Live Migrate, and Virtual Machine Networks
• Storage and Cluster Heartbeat Networks
• Oracle VM Functional Architecture: Storage
• Quiz
• Oracle VM Architecture
• Private Cloud Appliance Repositories
• Private Cloud Appliance Server Pool
• Server Pool: Overview
• Server Pool Functions
• High Availability for Virtual Machines
• Live Migration
• Live Migration Process
• Server Processor Compatibility Groups
• Default Server Processor Compatibility Group
• Creating a Server Processor Compatibility Group
• Editing a Server Processor Compatibility Group
• Anti-Affinity Groups
• Creating an Anti-Affinity Group
• Server Pool Policies
• Distributed Resource Scheduling
• Quiz
• Server Pool Clusters
• OCFS2 for Oracle VM
• OCFS2 Features
• OCFS2 Components
• OCFS2 Cluster Services
• Quiz
• Summary
• Practice 3: Overview

Deploying and Examining a Virtual Machine

• Objectives
• Importing the Virtual Appliance File
• Creating a Virtual Machine from the Virtual Appliance VM
• Creating a Virtual Machine by Using the Create Virtual Machine Wizard
• Creating a Virtual Machine from an Existing VM Template
• Virtual Machine Configuration
• Virtual Machine Networks
• Virtual Machine Disks
• Associating the VNIC to a Virtual Machine Network
• Quiz
• Virtual Machine Life Cycle
• Starting and Accessing the Virtual Machine
• Virtual Machine Controls: Starting and Connecting to the Console
• Initializing the Virtual Machine from ISO
• First-Boot Configuration
• Connecting to a VM Console
• Suspending and Resuming a Virtual Machine
• Stopping, Restarting, and Killing a Virtual Machine
• Displaying Details About a Virtual Machine
• Quiz
• Logging In to the Oracle VM Command-Line Interface
• Listing Virtual Machines with the CLI
• Showing a Virtual Machine with the CLI
• Starting a Virtual Machine with the CLI
• Suspending and Resuming a Virtual Machine
• Killing a Virtual Machine
• Quiz
• Summary
• Practice 4: Overview

Managing Oracle VM Networks and Storage

• Objectives
• Oracle VM Networking
• Oracle VM Network Functions
• Preconfigured Oracle VM Networks
• Quiz
• Oracle VM VLAN Terminology
• Creating Networks with VLAN Support
• Creating VLAN Interfaces
• Creating a Network with a VLAN Interface
• Displaying VLAN Interfaces
• Configuring VLAN Interfaces
• Creating VLAN Interfaces
• Selecting Ports
• Selecting VLAN IDs
• Configuring IP Addresses (Optional)
• Create a Network
• Create Network Wizard
• Creating a Network
• Selecting VLAN Interfaces
• Completing the New Network
• Creating a Network from VLAN Interfaces
• Displaying BondPort on an Oracle VM Server
• Using the Virtual NICs Tool
• Listing and Displaying VNICs
• Creating a VNIC
• Quiz
• Storage Functions
• Oracle VM Storage Management
• Server Pools and Repositories
• Storage Repositories
• Repository Content
• Creating Storage Repositories on External Storage
• Presenting Servers to Rack1_Repository
• Obtaining Information About a Repository
• Managing Repositories
• Adding Resources to Repositories
• Managing Virtual Disks in Repositories
• Listing Repositories with the CLI
• Showing a Repository with the CLI: Part 1 of Output
• Showing a Repository with the CLI: Part 2 of Output
• Importing and Deleting a Virtual Appliance
• Cloning a Virtual Disk
• Cloning a Virtual Disk to Another Repository
• Cloning a Virtual Disk
• Quiz
• Summary
• Practice 5: Overview

Creating and Packaging Virtual Machines

• Objectives
• Introduction
• Virtual Machine Terminology
• Guest Types in the Private Cloud Appliance
• Logical View of a Virtual Machine
• Physical View of a Virtual Machine
• Review: Disk Storage for Virtual Machines
• Virtual Disks in the Rack1-Repository
• Virtual Machine Networking
• Using the VNIC Manager
• Quiz
• Steps to Create a Virtual Machine
• Creating a Virtual Machine
• Creating a New Virtual Machine
• Virtual Machine Parameters
• Adding VNICs
• Specifying and Ordering Disks
• Boot Options
• Created Virtual Machine
• Editing a Virtual Machine
• Quiz
• Creating a Virtual Machine with the CLI
• Creating a Virtual Disk with the CLI
• Mapping Storage Devices with the CLI
• Showing the Virtual Machine
• Quiz
• Using Kickstart to Create Virtual Machines
• Creating Virtual Machines from Templates and Virtual Appliances
• Creating New Virtual Machines with Cloning
• Cloning a Virtual Machine
• Simple Virtual Machine Clone
• Advanced Cloning
• Clone Customizer Disk Mappings to Repositories, Physical Disks, and Storage Arrays
• Creating a Clone Customizer
• Creating a Virtual Machine with Advanced Cloning
• Cloning with the CLI
• Migrating a Virtual Machine
• Displaying Selected Events, Deleting a Virtual Machine
• Quiz
• Oracle VM Guest Additions
• First-Boot Configuration Interactions
• Installing Oracle VM Guest Additions
• Using the Oracle VM Guest Additions Daemon and Template-Driven Configuration
• Initial Settings for the Configuration Scripts and Targets
• Using Enumerate with Configuration Scripts
• First-Boot Configuration: Before the First Boot
• Using the ovmd Command to Unconfigure a Virtual Machine
• First-Boot Configuration: First-Boot Processing
• Quiz
• Summary
• Practice 6: Overview

Appliance Rack Management

• Objectives
• From Virtualization Infrastructure to Appliance Management
• Appliance Dashboard Web Interface
• Appliance Hardware View
• Displaying Rack Layout
• Displaying Appliance Software Version
• Appliance Network Settings
• Appliance System Properties: Proxies, Logging, and Time Zone
• Displaying and Setting System Properties
• Locking and Unlocking Management Features
• Locking Rack Management Features
• Diagnosing the Rack Components
• Quiz
• Appliance Network Settings
• Appliance Command Line Interface
• CLI Modes
• CLI Help for All Commands
• CLI Help by Command
• Tab Auto-Completion
• CLI Output Options
• CLI JSON Output
• CLI Sorted Output
• CLI Filtered Output
• CLI Pagination Options
• CLI File Options
• CLI Confirmation and Forcing Options
• CLI Task Management
• Displaying Tasks
• Deleting Tasks
• Oracle Private Cloud Appliance Software Upgrade
• Preparing to Upgrade
• Running the Upgrade
• During and After an Upgrade Process
• Compute Node Upgrade
• Quiz
• Summary
• Practice 7: Overview

Appliance Server Management

• Objectives
• Appliance Servers: Management and Compute Nodes
• Node Management Tasks
• Displaying Management Nodes in the Rack
• Displaying Compute Nodes in the Rack
• Displaying Compute Node Details
• Comparing Compute Node CLI and Hardware Views
• Stopping and Starting a Compute Node
• Tenant Groups
• Creating and Configuring a Tenant Group
• Storage for a Tenant Group
• Deconfiguring and Deleting a Tenant Group
• Deprovision and Reprovision a Compute Node
• Reprovisioning a Compute Node
• Quiz
• Summary
• Practice 8: Overview

Appliance Network Management

• Objectives
• Appliance Switches: Spine and Leaf
• Appliance Ethernet Spine and Leaf Switch Configuration
• Spine Switch Port Configurations
• Displaying All Appliance Networks
• Showing an Appliance Network
• Listing Network Switches
• Displaying Management Switch Ports
• Displaying Network Ports
• Listing Uplink Ports
• Creating and Displaying an Uplink Port Group
• Deleting Uplink Port Groups
• Quiz
• Creating a Custom Ethernet-based Network
• Types of Appliance Custom Networks
• Creating a Custom Ethernet-Based Network
• Creating and Adding a Network to a Compute Node
• Removing a Compute Node and Deleting the Network
• Diagnosing Leaf Switches
• Diagnosing Leaf Switch Resources
• Diagnosing Link Status
• Diagnosing Spine Switches
• Diagnosing Spine Switch Resources
• Diagnosing Uplink Port Statistics
• Managing Switch Log Content
• Quiz
• Summary
• Practice 9: Overview

Appliance Storage Management

• Objectives
• Appliance Storage: Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance ZS7-2
• Configuring Additional Storage Capacity
• Summary
• Practice 10: Overview

Appliance Password Management

• Objectives
• Updating Appliance Component Passwords
• Additional Principles for Security and Access Management
• Quiz
• Summary
• Practice 11: Overview

Appliance and Oracle VM Backup

• Objectives
• Appliance Internal and External Storage Components
• Management and Compute Node Storage
• Backup Processes for the Private Cloud Appliance
• About Appliance Internal Backup
• Oracle VM Management Environment
• Appliance Internal Backup Execution
• Appliance Internal Backup Export and Restore
• Quiz
• Oracle VM Repositories and Virtual Machines
• Virtual Machine Backup Considerations
• Virtual Machine Cloning
• Repository Export
• Creating a Repository Export
• Quiz
• ZS7-2 Storage Appliance Snapshot
• Your Backup Planning
• Quiz
• Summary
• Practice 12: Overview

Appliance Disaster Recovery

• Objectives
• Disaster Recovery
• Site Terminology and Transitions
• Site Guard Operation Plans
• Enterprise Manager
• Generalized Disaster Recovery Configuration
• Oracle VM Virtual Machine Failover
• VM Deployment Architecture for Guest Failover
• Application Failover
• VM Deployment Architecture for Application Failover
• Quiz
• Unrestricted Transitions
• Site-to-Site Transitions
• Oracle Private Cloud Appliance and Oracle VM Platforms
• Storage Replication Supplemented with Tape Backup
• Transition and Recovery Considerations
• My Oracle Support Document 1959182.1
• Disaster Recovery White Papers
• Quiz
• Summary
• Practice 13: Overview

Tenant Groups and Partitioning

• Objectives
• What Is a Tenant Group?
• Supporting Tenant Groups
• Why Create a Tenant Group?
• General Steps for Implementing a Tenant Group
• Ensuring Adequate Network and Storage Resources
• Tenant Group Prechecks
• Migrating or Moving VMs from Oracle VM Servers
• Removing from Repository
• Removing from Networks
• Creating the Tenant Group
• Adding Servers to the Tenant Group
• Showing the Tenant Group
• Configuring a Dedicated Network for VMs of the Tenant Group
• Creating a Repository for the Tenant Group
• Quiz
• What Is Partitioning?
• Other Partitioning in the Oracle Private Cloud Appliance
• Oracle VM Hard Partitioning
• Trusted Partitioning: Private Cloud Appliance
• Quiz
• Summary
• Practice 14: Overview

Capacity Planning and Management

• Objectives
• Importance of Capacity Planning and Management
• The Application as a Deployable Unit
• VM Guest Sizing Considerations
• VM Sizing for Application Needs and Requirements
• Monitoring VM Performance and Utilization
• Oracle VM Server Maximums
• Sizing and VM Layout
• Virtual Machine Maximums
• Tenant Group Considerations
• Compute Node and Tenant Group Maximums
• Memory Capacity
• Configuration Options for HA
• Quiz
• Network Planning
• Network Maximums
• Storage Capacity Planning
• Storage Capacity Planning by Application Needs
• Storage Maximums
• Quiz
• Summary
• Practice 15: Overview