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This class is designed for the DBA, system designer or system architect who is familiar with the Oracle database. This course provides students an opportunity to learn how to use Oracle's server virtualization software to create scalable virtual environment.  Students will learn how to create a pool of scalable servers running Oracle VM on Linux. The student will also learn how to apply industry “best practices” in implementing, managing and optimizing Oracle VM across an enterprise environment.

Course Objectives

At the end of the course, students will be able to:

• Perform manual and scripted Oracle VM Manager and Server installations
• Install, configure,  migrate, manage, and monitor virtual machines 
• Setup Oracle VM for high availability (including Oracle RAC)
• Architect and deploy system virtualization according to “Best Practices”

Course Agenda

• What is Virtualization
• Why virtualize?
• Benefits of virtualization (Server consolidating and Server provisioning)
• Overview of virtualization technologies
• Hardware virtualization vs. paravirtualization
• Introduction to Oracle VM
• Oracle support for VM
• Oracle’s VM template library
• Oracle VM Architecture - Xen Architecture and hardware support for virtualization

• Installing the Oracle VM Server
• Hardware prerequisites for Oracle VM Server
• Types of VM installation ( VM Server)
• Installation methods (installing from CDROM, hard drive, NFS, FTP, and HTTP)
• Installing and Configuring Oracle VM Manager
• Hardware and software prerequisites for VM Manager
• Installing VM Manager
• Configuring VM Manager and VM Server
• Configuring additional networks disks, etc.
• Configuring storage and network resources - Adding additional storage and network cards
• Configuring server high availability

• Creating Server Pools and Servers - Configuring Servers and Server Pools (Server Pool Master, Utility Server and Virtual Machine Server)
• Configuring Server Resources - Configuring Oracle VM Templates, ISO images, and shared virtual storage
• Managing the VM environment  - Starting, stopping and configuring VMs

• Creating Virtual Machines using Templates
• Configuring the virtual machine
• Adding additional resources to the virtual machine
• Creating Virtual Machines manually
• Creating a VM using installation media
• Creating a VM using PXEBOOT
• Adding additional resources to the virtual machine
• Managing Virtual Machines
• Configuring VM networks
• Configuring storage on the VMs (using virtual and iSCSI storage)
• Migrating virtual machines
• Cloning virtual machines

Virtualization Summary and Best Practices

• The future of virtualization
• Best Practices
• Summary

• Explore the VM Manager
• Create a VM using the VM Manager
• Create a VM using the command line interface
• Manage the VMs
• Create a RAC cluster using Oracle VM
• Create an application server using Oracle VM
• Setup Oracle VM for high availability

Prerequisites

• General understanding of databases
• Understanding and use of fundamental Linux commands (such as ls and cp) and a Linux text editor

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