On-line course
Duration: 8 hours (2 days, 4 hours per day)
Course materials: Student’s Guide

Course Overview

The Parallels Server for Mac Administration course is designed to educate participants about Parallels Server for Mac. The training highlights the product’s features, functions, installation, configuration, and maintenance. Participants will follow various demonstrated procedures similar to those faced by Parallels Server administrators every day such as creating and operating virtual (guest) machines, manage resources, configure virtual network adapters, and other.

• Course Content
• 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.

• Virtual Machine Technology Overview
  Introduction to Parallels Server. Main features. Virtual machine files.

• Installation
  Requirements to hardware and software resources. Installation procedure. Parallels Server activation.

• Server Configuration
  Basics of user interface. Connecting to Parallels server for management. Managing different server level options.

• Basic Virtual Machine Operations
  Creating virtual machines using different modes. Often used operations: start, stop, delete, and clone. Settings of options, features, and hardware resources for VMs. Advanced settings. Adding and removing devices. VM templates.

• Parallels Tools
  Basic knowledge about Parallels Tools in different guest operating systems. Installation and update of Parallels Tools.

• Network Configuration
  Shared, bridged, and host-only modes. Using GUI and command line to setup different network modes.

• System Maintenance
  Using command line utility. Interface customization. File system specifics. Troubleshooting. Monitoring server resource usage. Backup and restore. Parallels Virtual Tools: image tool, explorer, monitor, and compressor. Submitting a support request.

• Parallels Transporter
  Introduction to Parallels Transporter application. Resource requirements and installation of Transporter. Local and remote migration. Migrating from third-party virtual machine.

Lab Exercises

Not included in the course. Applicable for on-site training only.

Prerequisites

The attendees should be familiar with the following subjects.

• Principles of Mac OS X administration
• Mac OS X file system
• Basic command line utilities
• Principles of Networking technologies

Who will benefit from this course

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

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