Course Overview

The Parallels Virtuozzo Containers for Linux Administration course is designed to educate participants about Parallels Virtuozzo for Linux, including its features, functions, installation, configuration, and maintenance. The course contains extensive hands-on lab training. Participants will learn how to install and configure Parallels Virtuozzo for Linux with various options, explore different operating modes, and perform various tasks.

• Course Content
• Lab Exercises
• Prerequisites
• Who will benefit from this course

Course Content

The course is divided into several modules accompanied with appropriate lab training. Most modules contain topics with subject descriptions followed by on-screen demonstrations. At the end of topics, participants will be evaluated on the subjects learned.

• Parallels Virtuozzo Containers Overview
  Introduction to Virtuozzo. Main features. Typical range of applications.

• Installation and Licensing
  Requirements to hardware and software resources. Installation procedure. Licensing principles in Virtuozzo.

• Basic operations
  Getting-started like module describing creation of Containers and basic operations with Containers. The topic is useful for system administrators who are not familiar with Virtuozzo yet.

• Resource management
  Managing resources used by different Virtual Environments.

• Graphical Management Tools
  Using Parallels Management Console and Parallels Infrastructure Manager to manage Hardware Nodes, Containers and enterprise information infrastructure based on virtualization.

• Template Management
  Template management in Virtuozzo. Classification of templates. EZ and standard templates. Installation of template-based applications into Containers. Creating templates.

• Resource Management
  Managing resources used by Containers. QoS parameters. UBC and SLM modes.

• Network Configuration
  Routed and bridged modes. VLAN technology in Virtuozzo. Using GUI and command line to setup different network modes.

• Advanced Virtuozzo Topics
  Number of advanced Virtuozzo topics, not covered by previous chapters. Providing access to the Hardware Node files from Containers. Cluster technology. SNMP monitoring. Setting firewalls.

Lab Exercises

• Installation
  • Pre-Installation
  • Installation Procedure
  • Post-Installation
• Basic Operations
  • Creating Containers
  • Starting and stopping Containers
  • Accessing Containers
  • Setting Disk Space Quota
  • Mounting private Area
  • Deleting Containers
  • Backup and restore Containers
  • Migrating Containers
• Virtuozzo GUI Management Tools
  • Using Parallels Management Console to register Hardware Nodes, creating Containers, adjusting configuration parameters
  • Using Parallels Infrastructure Manager to manage Hardware Nodes, Containers, and enterprise information infrastructure based on virtualization
  • Using Parallels Power Panel to manage individual Containers
• Template management
  • Installing EZ templates on Hardware Nodes and adding them to Containers
  • Installing standard templates on Hardware Nodes and adding them to Containers
• Resource Management
  • Adjusting memory parameters
  • Second-level disk quota management
  • Bandwidth management
• Advanced Features
  • Managing mounts
  • Setting firewall rules

Prerequisites

The attendees should be familiar with the following subjects.

• Principles of Linux administration
• Linux file system
• Basic command line utilities
• Principles of Networking technologies
• Linux network utilities and configuration files

Who will benefit from this course

System administrators who are responsible for managing the day-to-day operations of servers running Virtuozzo.

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