Designed to provide students that are responsible for the administration of the KVM for IBM z System product with the knowledge to install, manage, and configure the product.

Details

Course Code: ZV45G

Brand: IBM Z – Mainframe

Category: Systems

Skill Level: Intermediate

Duration: 24.00H

Modality: CR,ILO

Audience

This course is intended for IT professionals who will be responsible for the installation and configuration of the KVM for IBM z System product.

Prerequisites

Basic computer skills and knowledge. The students will also need to have knowledge of an editor that is available on Linux (vi).

Overview

The ZV45 course is designed to provide students that are responsible for the administration of the KVM for IBM z System product with the knowledge to install, manage, and configure the product.  You will leave the course with the knowledge to implement KVM for IBM z System, apply a service pack, add new disk storage to the KVM server, deploy Linux guests, and migrate deployed guests to other KVM server.

Topic

Day 1

Unit 1 – KVM for IBM z System Overview

Unit 2 – KVM for IBM z System Installation

Exercise 1 – ZK45G Exercise Overview

Exercise 2 – KVM for IBM z System Installation

Unit 3- KVM for IBM z System Post-Installation Task

Day 2

Exercise 3 – KVM for IBM z System Post-Installation Task

Unit 4 – KVM for IBM z System Storage

Exercise 4- KVM for IBM z System Storage

Unit 5- Network Management with KVM for IBM z System

Exercise 5- Network Management with KVM for IBM z System

Day 3

Unit 6- Deploying Guests with KVM for IBM z System

Exercise 6- Deploying Guests with KVM for IBM z System

Unit 7- Additional Tasks for KVM for IBM z System

Exercise 7- Additional Tasks KVM for IBM z System

Objectives

• Install KVM for IBM z System

• Apply a fixpack for KVM for IBM z System

• Initial storage devices that are used by KVM for IBM z System

• Manage network devices and create an OpenSystem vSwitch

• Deploy SLES12 guest with KVM for IBM z System

• Convert deployed guests from a qcow2 image to a raw image

• Resize the deployed guest

• Migrate KVM guests from one KVM server to another.