Overview

Deploy, configure, manage, and migrate virtual environments

Red Hat Virtualization (RH318) teaches you the skills needed to deploy, administer, and operate virtual machines in your organization using Red Hat® Virtualization. Through numerous hands-on exercises, you will demonstrate the ability to deploy and configure the Red Hat Virtualization infrastructure and use it to provision and manage virtual machines. This offering also prepares you for the Red Hat Certified Specialist in Virtualization exam.

This course is based on Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 4.3 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux® 7.6 and 8, as well as Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure for Virtualization 1.6.

Duration

 05 days

Course content summary

• Configure Red Hat Virtualization
• Configure networking and storage for use with Red Hat Virtualization
• Manage user accounts and access to the Red Hat Virtualization environment
• Install and manage virtual machines in Red Hat Virtualization
• Use templates for rapid virtual machine deployment
• Manage virtual machine snapshots and images
• Migrate virtual machines and explore high-availability options

Audience

Linux system administrators and virtualization administrators interested in deploying and managing large-scale virtualization solutions managing virtual servers in their datacenters, based on the Red Hat Virtualization open virtualization management platform.

Prerequisites

• Become a Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA®), or demonstrate equivalent experience
• Being a Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE®) is strongly recommended for Ansible® automation comprehension

Course Outline              

1.      Red Hat Virtualization overview

• Explain the purpose and architecture of Red Hat Virtualization.

2.      Installing and configuring Red Hat Virtualization

• Install a minimal Red Hat Virtualization environment and use it to create a virtual machine.

3.      Creating and managing datacenters and clusters

• Organize hypervisors into groups using datacenters and clusters.

4.      Managing user accounts and roles

• Configure user accounts using a central directory service, then use roles to assign access to resources based on job responsibilities

5.      Adding physical hosts

• Add additional Red Hat Virtualization hosts automatically, and move and remove hosts from datacenters as needed.

6.      Scale Red Hat Virtualization infrastructure

• Add Red Hat Virtualization hosts automatically, configure Red Hat Enterprise Linux hosts when appropriate, and move and remove hosts from data centers as needed
  

7.      Managing Red Hat Virtualization storage

• Create and manage data and ISO storage domains.

8.      Manage Red Hat Virtualization storage

• Create and manage data and ISO storage domains

9.      Deploy and manage virtual machines

• Operate virtual machines in the Red Hat Virtualization environment

10.  Migrate virtual machines

• Migrate and control automatic migration of virtual machines

11.  Manage virtual machine images

• Manage virtual machine snapshots and disk images.

12.  Automating virtual machine deployment

• Automate deployment of virtual machines by using templates and cloud-init

13. Back up and upgrade Red Hat Virtualization

• Back up, restore, and upgrade the software in a Red Hat Virtualization environment

14.  Explore high-availability practices

• Explain procedures to improve the resilience and reliability of Red Hat Virtualization by removing single points of failure and implementing high-availability features