Audience
The audiences for this training include anyone who needs to create and manage partitions on IBM Power System servers, such as Linux or AIX technical support and consultants, Linux or AIX system administrators, or system architects and engineers.
Prerequisites
Students would benefit from general knowledge of IBM Power Systems servers and partitions. This can be obtained by attending the Essentials of PowerVM - LX024G course.
Duration
2 days.
Course Objectives
This course introduces basic administration functions involving Red Hat Enterprise Linux within an IBM Power Systems running Linux ecosystem. In this course students are taught installation, configuration, administration and troubleshooting. Students will also learn command line operations, graphical desktop deployment, device management, IBM tools, and system recovery. The course is part of a Linux curriculum path available to students who want to focus on Red Hat.
This course provides lectures and hands on labs in an instructor-led course environment.
After completing this course, students should be able to:
- Recognize different execution environments that Red Hat Linux runs on for IBM POWER8 processor-based servers
- Install Red Hat v7.2 on a POWER8 processor-based server
- Manage Red Hat v7.2 within a POWER8 processor-based server environment using standard tools
- Locate and utilize IBM Service and Productivity tools
- Customize the configuration of the boot loader
- Access rescue mode
Course Content
Day 1
Unit 1 - Installing Red Hat v7
Exercise 1 - Red Hat installation
Unit 2 - System management tools
Exercise 2 - Perform system management tasks
Day 2
Unit 3 - Power Systems device operations and boot management
Exercise 3 - Manage POWER8 devices and boot operations
Unit 4 - System recovery modes
Exercise 4 - Linux on POWER* service tools