Categories: Linux administration, Virtualization
During the course participants install and configure Xen and KVM/Qemu on their computers and see VMware, VirtualBox, OpenVZ and Linux-VServer working on the instructor’s machine.
On request, we customize this course to focus on any chosen virtualization technology.
Duration
2 days
Agenda
- Virtualization theory, full virtualization, paravirtualization
- Xen
- capabilities
- installation, preparing the server, migrating servers to a virtualized environment
- managing and partitioning hardware, performance analysis
- configuration, planning a virtual network infrastructure
- user space tools, console
- migrating a live session
- KVM and Qemu
- capabilities
- installation
- configuration
- migrating virtual machines
- server tuning
- An overview of Linux virtualization technologies
- VirtualBox
- installation
- configuration
- command line tools
- VMware
- technology introduction, product overview
- virtual machine description
- configuration
- snapshots
- Linux-VServer
- technology characteristics
- configuration
- OpenVZ
- configuration
- Lguest
- User-Mode-Linux
- VirtualBox
Audience and prerequisites
This course targets at least intermediate-level Linux system administrators.
Certificates
Course participants receive completion certificates signed by ALX.
See also:
- Linux administrator
- Advanced Linux administrator
- LPI 101. An introduction to Linux administration
- LPI 102. Linux administration and networking
- Building a modern CI / CD process using the Jenkins server
- Selected Linux network services
- LPI 201. Linux architecture and low-level configuration
- LPI 202. Selected network services and network security
- LPIC-2 exam prep course
- LPI 300: LDAP, Samba, Integration with MS Windows and Mixed Environments
- LPI 303: Cryptography, Access Control, Services and Network Security
- LPI 304: Linux Virtualization and High Availability
- E-mail server - Exim, anti-spam solutions
- E-mail server - Postfix
- Bash shell programming
- Advanced shell programming, Bash, AWK
- Linux backups
- Advanced network traffic and content filtering
- VPNs in theory and practice
- Bandwidth and Traffic Management (QoS) on Linux
- Server and network monitoring, SNMP, Nagios, Munin
- Apache HTTP server on Linux
- Bind domain name server on Linux
- LDAP directory services on Linux. Integrating authorization systems
- Samba server on Linux
- Advanced Samba configuration (PDC, LDAP, replication)
- Wireless networks and their security
- Digital signature and encryption with OpenSSL and GnuPG
- High availability: Linux Virtual Server and supporting technologies (HA1)
- NFS: Network File System on Linux
- Safe Internet in a computer lab
- Security components in Linux
- Linux - application and kernel debugging
- Linux - exploiting applications and operating system. Low level attacks.
- Linux - application security testing, searching for possible exploits. High-level attacks
- MySQL administration
