LPIC3-304 (temario)

Virtualization

  • Virtualization Concepts and Theory
    • Key Knowledge Areas:
      • Terminology
      • Pros and Cons of Virtualization
      • Variations of Virtual Machine Monitors
      • Migration of Physical to Virtual Machines
      • Migration of Virtual Machines between Host systems
      • Cloud Computing
    • The following is a partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:
      • Hypervisor
      • Hardware Virtual Machine (HVM)
      • Paravirtualization (PV)
      • Container Virtualization
      • Emulation and Simulation
      • CPU flags
      • /proc/cpuinfo
      • Migration (P2V, V2V)
      • IaaS, PaaS, SaaS
  • Xen
    • Key Knowledge Areas:
      • Xen architecture, networking and storage
      • Xen configuration
      • Xen utilities
      • Troubleshooting Xen installations
      • Basic knowledge of XAPI
      • Awareness of XenStore
      • Awareness of Xen Boot Parameters
      • Awareness of the xm utility
    • Terms and Utilities:
      • Domain0 (Dom0), DomainU (DomU)
      • PV-DomU, HVM-DomU
      • /etc/xen/
      • xl
      • xl.cfg
      • xl.conf
      • xe
      • xentop
  • KVM
    • Key Knowledge Areas:
      • KVM architecture, networking and storage
      • KVM configuration
      • KVM utilities
      • Troubleshooting KVM installations
    • Terms and Utilities:
      • Kernel modules: kvm, kvm-intel and kvm-amd
      • /etc/kvm/
      • /dev/kvm
      • kvm
      • KVM monitor
      • qemu
      • qemu-i
  • Other Virtualization Solutions
    • Key Knowledge Areas:
      • Basic knowledge of OpenVZ and LXC
      • Awareness of other virtualization technologies
      • Basic knowledge of virtualization provisioning tools
    • Terms and Utilities:
      • OpenVZ
      • VirtualBox
      • LXC
      • docker
      • packer
      • vagrant
  • Libvirt and Related Tools
    • Key Knowledge Areas:
      • libvirt architecture, networking and storage
      • Basic technical knowledge of libvirt and virsh
      • Awareness of oVirt
    • Terms and Utilities:
      • libvirtd
      • /etc/libvirt/
      • virsh
      • oVirt
  • Cloud Management Tools
    • Key Knowledge Areas:
      • Basic feature knowledge of OpenStack and CloudStack
      • Awareness of Eucalyptus and OpenNebula
    • Terms and Utilities:
      • OpenStack
      • CloudStack
      • Eucalyptus
      • OpenNebula

High Availability Cluster Management

  • High Availability Concepts and Theory
  • Load Balanced Clusters
  • Failover Clusters
  • High Availability in Enterprise Linux Distributions

High Availability Cluster Storage

  • DRBD / cLVM
  • Clustered File Systems