KVM 8hours
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Chapter 1 : Understanding Linux Virtualization
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Linux virtualization and how it all started
Using the hypervisor/virtual machine manager
Open source virtualization projects
What Linux virtualization offers you in the cloud
45min.
Chapter 2 : KVM as a Virtualization Solution
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The internal workings of libvirt, QEMU, and KVM
45min.
Chapter 3 : Installing KVM Hypervisor, libvirt, and oVirt
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Getting acquainted with QEMU and libvirt
Installing QEMU, libvirt, and oVirt
Starting a virtual machine using QEMU and libvirt
45min.
Chapter 4 : Libvirt Networking
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Understanding physical and virtual networking
Using userspace networking with TAP and TUN devices
Understanding and using SR-IOV
45min.
Chapter 5 : Libvirt Storage
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Storage redundancy and multipathing
Gluster and Ceph as a storage backend for KVM
Virtual disk images and formats and basic KVM storage operations
The latest developments in storage – NVMe and NVMeOF
45min.
Chapter 6 : Virtual Display Devices and Protocols
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Using virtual machine display devices
Discussing remote display protocols
Using the VNC display protocol
Using the SPICE display protocol
Methods to access a virtual machine console
Getting display portability with noVNC
45min.
Chapter 7 : Virtual Machines: Installation, Configuration, and Life Cycle Management
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Creating a new VM using virt-manager
Adding and removing virtual hardware from your VM
45min.
Chapter 8 : Creating and Modifying VM Disks, Templates, and Snapshots
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Modifying VM images using libguestfs tools
virt-builder and virt-builder repos
Use cases and best practices while using snapshots
45min.
Chapter 9 : Customizing a Virtual Machine with cloud-init
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What is the need for virtual machine customization?
Understanding cloud-init architecture
Installing and configuring cloud-init at boot time
Passing metadata and user data to cloud-init
Examples on how to use a cloud-config script with cloud-init
45min.
Chapter 10 : Automated Windows Guest Deployment and Customization
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The prerequisites to creating Windows VMs on KVM
Creating Windows VMs using the virt-install utility
Customizing Windows VMs using cloudbase-init
cloudbase-init customization examples
Troubleshooting common cloudbase-init customization issues
45min.
Chapter 11 : Ansible and Scripting for Orchestration and Automation
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Provisioning a virtual machine using the kvm_libvirt module
Orchestrating multi-tier application deployment on KVM VM
Learning by example Ansible with KVM
45min.
Chapter 12 : Scaling Out KVM with OpenStack
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Introduction to OpenStack
Software-defined networking
OpenStack components
Additional OpenStack use cases
Provisioning the OpenStack environment
Integrating OpenStack with Ansible
45min.
Chapter 13 : Scaling out KVM with AWS
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Introduction to AWS
Preparing and converting virtual machines for AWS
Building hybrid KVM clouds with Eucalyptus
45min.
Chapter 14 : Monitoring the KVM Virtualization Platform
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Monitoring the KVM virtualization platform
Introduction to the open source ELK solution
Setting up and integrating the ELK stack
Configuring data collector and aggregator
45min.
Chapter 15 : Performance Tuning and Optimization for KVM VMs
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It’s all about design
Tuning the VM CPU and memory performance
Getting acquainted with KSM
Tuning the CPU and memory with NUMA
Virtio device tuning
Block I/O tuning
Network I/O tuning
45min.
Chapter 16 : Troubleshooting Guidelines for the KVM Platform
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Verifying the KVM service status
KVM services logging
Enabling debug mode logging
Advanced troubleshooting tools
Best practices for troubleshooting KVM issues
45min.
Kumar Satish
Instructor
Kumar Satish started his career as a Unix and Linux System Engineer in 2011. Kumar has professiona experience with CentOS, RedHat, Ubuntu, and Debian. He enjoys teaching others how to use and exploit the power of the Linux operating system.
