Certificate in Cloudstack

TABLE OF CONTENT

Concepts

• What is Apache CloudStack?
• What Can CloudStack Do?
• Deployment Architecture Overview

Cloud Infrastructure Concepts

• About Regions
• About Zones
• About Pods
• About Clusters
• About Hosts
• About Primary Storage
• About Secondary Storage
• About Physical Networks

Cloudstack Installation

• Installation Steps
• Management Server, Database, and Storage System Requirements
• Host/Hypervisor System Requirements
• Management Server Installation

Deployment Architecture Selection

• Choosing a Deployment Architecture
• Small-Scale Deployment
• Large-Scale Redundant Setup
• Separate Storage Network
• Multi-Node Management Server
• Multi-Site Deployment
• Choosing a Hypervisor
• Best Practices
• Process Best Practices

Network Setup

• Basic and Advanced Networking
• Layer-2 Switch
• Hardware Firewall
• Management Server Load Balancing
• Topology Requirements
• Guest Network Usage Integration for Traffic Sentinel
• Setting Zone VLAN and Running VM Maximums

Storage Setup

• Introduction
• Configurations
• Storage Architecture
• CloudStack Networking for Storage

Hypervisor Setup

• Custom Hypervisor Installation
• Host Hyper-V Installation
• Host KVM Installation
• Host LXC Installation
• Host VMware vSphere Installation
• Host Citrix XenServer Installation

Optional Installation

• Installing the Usage Server
• SSL
• Database Replication
• Amazon Web Services Interface
• About Password and Key Encryption

Configuring your CloudStack Installation

• Overview of Provisioning Steps
• Adding Regions
• Adding a Zone
• Adding a Pod
• Adding a Cluster
• Adding a Host
• Add Primary Storage
• Add Secondary Storage
• Initialize and Test
• Configuration Parameters
• Granular Global Configuration Parameters

User Interface

• End User’s UI Overview
• Root Administrator’s UI Overview
• Basic UI Customization
• Advanced UI Customisation

Managing Accounts, Users and Domains

• Roles, Accounts, Users, and Domains
• Using Dynamic Roles
• Dedicating Resources to Accounts and Domains
• How to Dedicate a Zone, Cluster, Pod, or Host to an Account or Domain
• Using an LDAP Server for User Authentication
• Using a SAML 2.0 Identity Provider for User Authentication
• Using OAuth2 Authentication For Users
• Using Two Factor Authentication For Users

Using Projects to Organize User Resources

• Overview of Projects
• Configuring Projects
• Creating a New Project
• Adding Members to a Project
• Accepting a Membership Invitation
• Suspending or Deleting a Project
• Using the Project View

Service Offerings

• Service Offerings, Disk Offerings, Network Offerings, and Templates
• Compute and Disk Service Offerings
• System Service Offerings
• Network Throttling
• Changing the Default System Offering for System VMs
• Changing the Default System Offering for Virtual Routers

Setting up Networking for Users

• Overview of Setting Up Networking for Users
• About Virtual Networks
• Network Service Providers
• Network Offerings
• Configuring AutoScale with using CloudStack Virtual Router

Working with Instances

• About Working with Instances
• Instance Lifecycle
• Managing Instances
• Instance Snapshots
• Support for Virtual Appliances
• Importing and Unmanaging Instances
• Importing Virtual Machines From VMware into KVM
• Instance Backups (Backup and Recovery Feature)
• Using SSH Keys for Authentication
• Assigning GPU/vGPU to Guest Instances
• Instance Metrics

Working with Templates & ISOs

• Working With Templates
• Working with ISOs

Working with Clusters

• Adding Clusters
• CloudStack DRS

Working with Hosts

• Adding Hosts
• Scheduled Maintenance and Maintenance Mode for Hosts
• Disabling and Enabling Zones, Pods, and Clusters
• Removing Hosts
• Re-Installing Hosts
• Maintaining Hypervisors on Hosts
• Hypervisor Capabilities
• Changing Host Password
• Over-Provisioning and Service Offering Limits
• VLAN Provisioning
• Out-of-band Management
• Security
• Server Address Usage
• Securing Process
• KVM Libvirt Hook Script Include
• KVM Rolling Maintenance
• KVM Auto Enable/Disable Hosts

Working with Storage

• Storage Overview
• Primary Storage
• Secondary Storage
• Working With Volumes
• Working with Volume Snapshots
• Object Storage

Working with System VMs

• The System VM Template
• Changing the Default System VM Template
• Accessing System VMs
• Multiple System VM Support for VMware
• Console Proxy
• Virtual Router
• Secondary Storage VM
• Migrating System VMs
• Troubleshoot networks from System VMs

Working with Usage

• Configuring the Usage Server
• Setting Usage Limits
• Usage Record Format
• Usage Types
• Dates in the Usage Record

Managing VM and Volume Allocation

• Host tags
• Storage tags
• Flexible Tags

Managing Networks and Traffic

• Guest Traffic
• Networking in a Pod
• Networking in a Zone
• Basic Zone Physical Network Configuration
• Advanced Zone Physical Network Configuration
• Editing, Restarting, and Removing a Guest Network
• Using Multiple Guest Networks
• Guest Network Permissions
• IP Reservation in Isolated Guest Networks
• Reserving Public IP Addresses and VLANs for Accounts
• Configuring Multiple IP Addresses on a Single NIC
• About Multiple IP Ranges
• About Elastic IPs
• Portable IPs
• Multiple Subnets in Shared Network
• Isolation in Advanced Zone Using Private VLANs
• Security Groups
• External Firewalls and Load Balancers
• Global Server Load Balancing Support
• Guest IP Ranges
• Acquiring a New IP Address
• Releasing an IP Address
• Reserving a Public IP Address
• Releasing a Reserved Public IP Address
• Static NAT
• IP Forwarding and Firewalling
• IP Load Balancing
• DNS and DHCP
• Remote Access VPN
• About Inter-VLAN Routing (nTier Apps)
• Persistent Networks
• Using Remote Access VPN
• VNF Templates and Appliances

Managing the Cloud

• Using Tags to Organize Resources in the Cloud
• Using Comments on the Resources in the Cloud
• Reporting CPU Sockets
• Changing the Database Configuration
• Changing the Database Password
• File encryption type
• Administrator Alerts
• Customizing the Network Domain Name
• Stopping and Restarting the Management Server

System Reliability and Availability

• HA for Management Server
• Management Server Load Balancing
• Multiple Management Servers Support on agents
• HA-Enabled Instances
• Dedicated HA Hosts
• HA-Enabled Hosts
• Primary Storage Outage and Data Loss
• Secondary Storage Outage and Data Loss
• Database High Availability

Tuning

• Performance Monitoring
• Increase Management Server Maximum Memory
• Set Database Buffer Pool Size
• Monitor the Database Load
• Set and Monitor Total Instance Limits per Host
• Configure XenServer dom0 Memory

Events and Troubleshooting

• Event Notification
• TroubleShooting