Audience
This course is for experienced Linux administrators who need to utilise Xen Hypervisor to host a number of operating systems.
Prerequisites
A good appreciation of the target operating system.
Duration
2 days. Hands on.
This course is available on site only. Please call for details.
Course Objectives
Xen Hypervisor is an open-source virtualisation technology providing the ability to run multiple operating systems on one physical machine. Due to the nature of Xen there is only a minimal loss of performance of the operating systems when compared to a native install. Several operating systems are supported including Solaris, Linux, FreeBSD, Windows and NetBSD.
The Xen Hypervisor course is based on the open-source version of Xen using Enterprise Linux as the host operating system. The course starts by giving an overview of virtualisation methods and continues with the installation of Xen on Enterprise Linux and installation and management of various hosts operating systems.
Course Content
Xen and Virtualisation Overview
What are virtual machines, virtualisation, paravirtualisation?
Installation of Xen on Red Hat Enterprise
Use of yum and installing Xen from source.
Creation of Xen Virtual Machines
Installing Kubuntu, NetBSD, Solaris & Windows as guests.
Xen Management Tools
Use of xm, XenMan & virt-manager.
Xen Networking
Configuring bridged and routed networking.
Xen Storage Options
Storing options including UFS, LVM & NFS.
Encrypting Guest Filesystems
Securing the guest operating systems with encryption.
Migration of Xen Instances
Saving and restoring domains.
Live migration.