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    This document provides an overview of a 5-day training course on KVM management. The course covers topics such as setting up KVM virtualization, creating and managing virtual machines with libvirt/virt-manager, virtual networking and storage, virtual machine lifecycle management including migration and snapshots, software-defined networking using Open vSwitch, installing oVirt for virtual datacenter management, performance tuning best practices, and KVM security.

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    This document provides an overview of a 5-day training course on KVM management. The course covers topics such as setting up KVM virtualization, creating and managing virtual machines with libvirt/virt-manager, virtual networking and storage, virtual machine lifecycle management including migration and snapshots, software-defined networking using Open vSwitch, installing oVirt for virtual datacenter management, performance tuning best practices, and KVM security.

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    This document provides an overview of a 5-day training course on KVM management. The course covers topics such as setting up KVM virtualization, creating and managing virtual machines with libvirt/virt-manager, virtual networking and storage, virtual machine lifecycle management including migration and snapshots, software-defined networking using Open vSwitch, installing oVirt for virtual datacenter management, performance tuning best practices, and KVM security.

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    KVM Management

    Pre-Requisites Good hand-on on Linux and proper knowledge about Type-1 and Type-
    2 Hypervisor. Good knowledge about virtualization, networking.

    Duration: 5 Days

    Lab Setup: Hardware Requirement


    Corei7 Core Machine
    16GB RAM
    Base OS Windows 2012
    VMWare Workstation
    CentOS Linux Virtual Machine
    Windows 8 or any client OS ISO Image
    Internet connectivity on the Machine

    Module 1: Setting Up Standalone KVM Virtualization


    Determining the right system requirements for your environment
    Physical CPU
    CPU cores
    Physical memory
    Storage
    Network
    Setting up the environment
    Installing virtualization packages
    Starting the libvirt service
    Validate and understand your system's virt capabilities

    Module 2: libvirt and Creating Virtual Machines


    Introducing virt-manager
    The Virtual Networks tab
    NATed virtual network
    Routed virtual network
    Isolated virtual network
    Default network
    Storage tab
    Creating virtual machines using the Virtual Machine Manager
    Creating a new virtual machine wizard
    The Network installation (HTTP, FTP, or NFS) method
    Network Boot (PXE)
    Importing an existing disk image
    Introducing virt-install
    Installing a Windows 7 Guest using the virt-install command
    Automated virtual machine deployment
    Introducing virt-builder
    Introducing oz
    The oz configuration file
    Creating a virtual machine using oz

    Module 3: Network and Storage


    Virtual networking
    Virtual networking using libvirt
    Isolated virtual network
    Routed virtual network
    Editing a virtual network
    NATedvirtual network
    MacVTap
    PCI passthrough
    Storage
    Working with unmanaged storage
    Creating a disk image and attaching it to a guest
    Getting image information
    Attach a disk using virt-manager
    Attach a disk using virsh
    Working with managed storage
    Storage management console
    Creating storage pools
    File system directory backed storage pool
    LVM Volume Group backed storage pool
    iSCSI backed storage pool
    Creating an ISO image library
    Deleting a storage pool
    Deleting storage pool using virt-manager
    Deleting storage pool using virsh
    Creating storage volumes
    Creating volume using virsh command
    Deleting a volume using the virsh command

    Module 4: Virtual Machine Lifecycle Management


    QEMU Guest Agent
    Virtual video cards and graphics
    Virtual video card
    Graphics
    VNC graphics server
    SPICE graphics server
    Adding SPICE graphics server
    Methods to access a virtual machine console
    VM migration
    Offline migration
    Live or online migration
    Benefits of VM migration
    Setting up the environment
    Shared storage
    Offline migration
    Enabling lockd
    Live or online migration
    Future of migration

    Module 5: Templates and Snapshots


    Introducing virtual machine templates
    Working with templates
    Creating templates
    Deploying virtual machines from a template
    Deploying VMs using the clone provisioning method
    Deploying VMs using the thin provisioning method
    Snapshots
    VM disk image formats
    Converting a VM disk format
    Working with internal snapshots
    Creating the first internal snapshot
    Creating an internal snapshot with a custom name
    Creating multiple snapshots
    Reverting to internal snapshots
    Deleting internal snapshots
    Managing snapshots using virt-manager
    Working with external disk snapshots
    Creating an external disk snapshot
    What is quiesce?
    Reverting to external snapshots
    Deleting external disk snapshots

    Module 6: Software-Defined Networking for KVM Virtualization


    Introducing Software Defined Networking
    Limitations of Linux bridges
    Introducing Open vSwitch
    Comparison between Linux bridge and Open vSwitch
    Open vSwitch architecture
    Open vSwitch installation and setup
    Starting openvswitch.service
    Open vSwitch kernel module
    Getting started with the Open vSwitch command-line interface
    Setting up your first Open vSwitch bridge
    Configuring an Open vSwitch bridge manually using the ovs-vsctl
    command
    Configuring an Open vSwitch bridge using network scripts
    Integrating KVM VMs and OVS
    VLANs with Open vSwitch
    Configuring VLANs for KVM virtual machines
    Using libvirt integration
    Open vSwitch QoS – controlling KVM VM traffic
    Applying traffic rate limiting
    Controlling outbound (egress) traffic
    Applying traffic shaping
    Overlay networks
    Configuring Open vSwitch tunnels with VxLan
    KvmHOST1 host side configuration
    kvmHOST2 host configuration
    Network port mirroring
    Configuring port mirroring
    Managing Open vSwitch using the OpenDaylight SDN controller
    Installing the OpenDaylight controller (ODL-sys)
    Hardware requirements
    Installing and configuring ODL
    Adding an Open vSwitch (vswitch001) instance to the
    OpenDaylight controller on system (ODL-sys)
    Installing flows on the OVS bridge using OpenDaylight
    Dashboard

    Module 7: Installing and Configuring the Virtual Datacenter Using oVirt


    Introducing oVirt
    oVirt architecture
    The oVirt engine
    The oVirt node
    Storage
    Networking
    Installing the oVirt engine
    Preparing the system for oVirt engine installation
    Installing oVirt node

    Module 8: Performance Tuning and Best Practices in KVM


    VirtIO
    CPU tuning
    The number of vCPUs
    CPU configuration
    CPU topology
    CPU pinning
    The numactl command
    Working with memory
    Memory allocation
    Memory tuning
    Memory backing
    locked
    nosharepages
    hugepages
    Getting acquainted with Kernel Same Page merging
    KSM packages and files
    Tuning CPU and memory with NUMA
    What is NUMA?
    NUMA memory allocation policies
    numatune
    emulatorpin
    KSM and NUMA
    Automatic NUMA balancing
    Understanding numad and numastat
    Disk and block I/O tuning
    Cache mode
    I/O mode
    I/O tuning
    Networking tuning in KVM
    KVM guest time-keeping best practices
    kvm-clock

    Module 9: KVM Security


    Security Concerns when Adding Block Devices to a Guest
    SELinux and Virtualization
    SELinux
    Virtualization Firewall Information
    Host Security Recommended Practices
    Guest security
    Why guest security matters
    Guest security recommended practices

    SVIRT
    Selinux And Mandatory Access Control (Mac)
    SVIRT Configuration
    SVIRT Labeling
    Types of sVirt Labels
    Dynamic Configuration
    Dynamic Configuration with Base Labeling
    Static Configuration with Dynamic Resource Labeling
    Static Configuration without Resource Labeling
    Network Security Recommendations

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