Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud 2.0: Cloud Management New

Companies want to realize the benefits of a private cloud but at the same time avoid the risks in building such a complex infrastructure. Exalogic Elastic Cloud: Cloud Management teaches you about a comprehensive virtual data center solution that's also secure and easy to use.

Learn To:

• Use Exalogic's Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) capabilities.
• Provision and monitor accounts in a virtual data center.
• Create and use virtual network and storage resources.
• Create and manage virtual servers.

Self-Service IT

This course will also teach you how to use the Exalogic Control browser interface to quickly deploy all of your applications on the Exalogic hardware as virtual servers. Develop these new skills through in-class lectures and hands-on exercises.

Multi-Tenancy

Enrolling in this course will also allow you to explore the use of cloud accounts to control resource usage. You'll learn to maintain application isolation in your cloud through virtual networks and virtual storage.

Automation

Through hands-on exercises led by expert Oracle instructors, find out how to use the Exalogic Control command line interface to script and automate common cloud management tasks. Interact with instructors through open Q & A sessions that allow you to dig deeper into the Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud.

A Live Virtual Class (LVC) is exclusively for registered students; unregistered individuals may not view an LVC at any time. Registered students must view the class from the country listed in the registration form. Unauthorized recording, copying, or transmission of LVC content may not be made.

Audience

• System Administrator
• Data Center Manager
• Network Administrator

Course Topics Cloud Concepts

• Benefits of Virtualization and Cloud Computing
• Comparing Different Cloud Service Categories
• Explaining the Concept of Multi-Tenancy
• Describing Storage and Network Virtualization

The Exalogic Cloud Solution

• Describing Exalogic's Hardware and Software
• Describing Exalogic's Cloud Architecture
• Capabilities of Exalogic Control
• Describing Several Exalogic Cloud Roles
• Discussing a Typical Cloud Provisioning Workflow

Initial Cloud Configuration

• Explaining the Exalogic Installation Process
• Describing the Default Exalogic Control Topology
• Comparing Several Default Exalogic Networks
• The role of partitions and VLANs in Exalogic
• Navigating the Exalogic Control Browser Interface

Hardware Asset Management

• Exploring the Exalogic System
• Locating and Monitoring Hardware Assets
• Monitoring Switches and Networks
• Generating System Reports
• Identifying and Resolving Incidents

User and Account Management

• Integrating Exalogic Control with a Directory Server
• Creating Cloud Administration Users
• Controlling Administrative Privileges
• Creating Cloud Users
• Defining Virtual Data Center Accounts
• Monitoring Resource Usage for an Account

Virtual Network Management

• Describing Exalogic Network Fabrics
• Comparing Public and Private Virtual Networks
• Creating Public and Private vNets
• Monitoring Custom vNets

Virtual Storage Management

• Explaining Exalogic's Virtual Storage Architecture
• Creating and Initializing a Storage Volume
• Attaching a Volume to a Virtual Server
• Capturing a Volume Snapshot

Virtual Server Management

• Explaining Exalogic's Virtual Server Architecture
• Enumerating vServer Concepts Including Over-Subscription and High Availability
• Compaing vServer Types and Templates
• Creating a Custom vServer Type
• Starting and Stopping vServers
• Distributing vServers Across Multiple Nodes

Virtual Server Templates

• Explaining the Need for Custom Templates
• Cloning an Existing Template
• Converting a vServer to a Template
• Modifying Virtual Disk Contents
• Using the ModifyJeOS Tool
• Uploading a Template to Exalogic Control

IaaS Command Line Interface

• Installing the IaaS Software on a Remote Compute
• Creating Access Keys
• Creating or Managing vServer Types, Volumes, Snapshots, and Distribution Groups
• Creating, Starting, and Stopping vServers

Course Objectives

• Automate cloud tasks with the IaaS command line interface
• Create and use custom vServer templates
• Describe the default Exalogic Control installation
• Access and use the Exalogic Control interface
• Manage and monitor cloud accounts and users
• Create public and private virtual networks
• Create and manage storage volumes
• Create and manage virtual servers