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Mirantis 2-day Boot Camp for OpenStack August 2012, Hosted by Nexenta

Mirantis

Thursday, August 23, 2012 at 9:00 AM - Friday, August 24, 2012 at 5:00 PM (PDT)

Santa Clara, CA

Mirantis 2-day Boot Camp for OpenStack August 2012, Hosted...

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Based on the Essex Release of OpenStack, this two-day intensive course provides hands-on technical training for OpenStack™ Compute aimed at system administrators and IT professionals looking to get started on an OpenStack Cloud deployment. Each of the two days will consist of lecture, demos and group exercises.

  • Day 1 covers provides an OpenStack overview & architecture. It covers: the project goals and use cases; basic operating and deployment principles; cloud usage patterns, with an OpenStack codebase overview; creating networks/tenants/roles; tuning and troubleshooting; and using the Nexenta Volume Driver.
  • Day 2 picks up where this left off, moving on to OpenStack in Production. It covers: deploying OpenStack for real-world use, and practice of OpenStack operation on multiple nodes; Swift Object Storage use cases, architecture, capabilities, configuration, security and deployment; advanced topics such as Software Defined Networking, a deployment and issues workshop, and comparing VMware and OpenStack.

The course is limited to 10 students for the 2-day class.  All course materials will be provided by Mirantis, including access to shared compute resources for labs. Students may bring their own laptops, but are not required to use them for the class. A light breakfast and lunch will be available to all course participants.

Pre-requisites:

  • Comfortable with Linux CLI
  • Good understanding of virtualization & hypervisors
  • Some experience with Linux networking

By the end of this course, class participants will have learned:   

 

1: OpenStack Overview & Architecture

  • Project goals and use cases 
  • Ecosystem & History 
  • Functional Overview of Key components 
  • Architecture: logical architecture, components, topology, request flows 
  • Basic operating and deployment principles 

2: Cloud Usage Patterns

  • OpenStack codebase overview 
  • Operating from Web UI and CLI 
  • Administration overview 
  • How to create networks, tenants, roles 
  • Using the Nexenta Volume Driver
  • Troubleshooting service failures 
  • Troubleshooting networking issues 

3: OpenStack in Production

  • Understand how to deploy OpenStack for real-world use 
  • Be able to plan OpenStack deployment 
  • Understand available deployment tools 
  • Practice OpenStack operation on multiple nodes 

4: Swift Object Storage

  • Swift use cases 
  • Architecture and capabilities 
  • Configuration and security 
  • Operations and Deployment 

5: Advanced Topics

  • Overview of Quantum and Software Defined Networking
  • Deployment and issues workshop
  • VMWare and OpenStack Comparison
  • OpenStack Future Roadmap

 

Contact Mirantis for more information about training offerings.

When & Where



Nexenta, Inc.
455 El Camino Real
Santa Clara, CA 95050

Thursday, August 23, 2012 at 9:00 AM - Friday, August 24, 2012 at 5:00 PM (PDT)


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Mirantis

Mirantis delivers OpenStack™ cloud and open source application infrastructure. With the largest pool of OpenStack engineering expertise on the market, Mirantis helps service providers, SaaS vendors and enterprises build and run robust OpenStack clouds. Its unique cost-effective service delivery model is focused on vendor-independent cloud implementation – uncompromised by opaque hooks or proprietary packaging.

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