Linux LPI Level 3 Virtualization & High Availability 國際認可證書課程
課程簡稱：LPI Level 3 Training Course (Virtualization & HA)

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1. Virtualization Concepts and Theory
1.1 Overview
1.2 Emulation of Hardware Components
1.2.1 CPU
1.2.2 Memory
1.2.3 Disk Storage
1.2.4 Network Interface Card (NIC)
1.3 Types of Hpervisors / Virtual Machine Monitors
1.4 Simulation, Emulation and Virtualization
1.4.1 Simulation
1.4.2 Emulation
1.4.3 Virtualization
1.5 Virtualization Types
1.5.1 Full Virtualization with Binary Translation
1.5.2 Paravirtualization (PV)
1.5.3 Hardware-Assisted Virtualization
1.6 Ways in Creating Virtual Machines
1.6.1 Standard Installation
1.6.2 Physical to Virtual Machine (P2V)
1.7 Migrating Virtual Machine Between Hosts (V2V)
1.8 Virtualization in Cloud Platform
1.8.1 Cloud Overview
1.8.2 Cloud Sevice Models
1.8.3 Benefits of using Virtualization in Cloud Platform

2. Xen
2.1 Overview
2.2 Installing Xen and Dom0 Kernel
2.3 Creating a DomU HVM Guest
2.4 Examining and Working with the HVM Guest
2.4.1 Checking Guest Information with xl comamnd
2.4.2 Device Drivers in Guest
2.4.3 Guest’s Kernel Messages During Boot
2.4.4 Accessing the Guest’s GUI/CLI
2.4.5 Shutting Down the Guest
2.4.6 Saving / Restoring State of Guest
2.4.7 Taking / Restoring Snapshot
2.4.8 Managing Disk Storage (for HVM guest only)
2.4.9 About Networking for Guests
2.5 Creating a DomU PV Guest
2.5.1 Guest Boot Process
2.6 Creating a PV guest
2.7 Examining the PV guest
2.7.1 Verifying if a guest is running PV mode
2.7.2 Device Drivers in a PV Guest
2.7.3 Kernel Boot Messages in a PV Guest
2.8 Auto Starting / Saving / Restoring Guests
2.9 Auto Starting / Saving / Restoring Guests

3. KVM
3.1 Overview
3.2 Installing KVM
3.3 Using QEMU Monitor (KVM Monitor)
3.3.1 Accessing the Monitor
3.3.2 Managing Block Devices
3.3.3 Sending Key to Guest
3.3.4 Shutting Down / Reboot a Guest
3.4 QEMU Networking
3.4.1 User Networking
3.4.2 Bridging to External Network
3.4.3 Other Networking Types
3.5 Disk Image Format
3.5.1 Disk Image Format
3.5.2 Disk Image Conversion
3.6 Snapshots
3.6.1 Temporary Snapshot
3.6.2 External Snapshots
3.6.3 Internal Snapshots
3.6.4 Saving / Restoring VM State
3.7 Virtio Drivers for KVM
3.7.1 Example of Guest NOT using Virtio Drivers
3.7.2 Example of Guest using Virtio Drivers

4. Libvirt
4.1 Overview
4.2 Installing Libvirt
4.3 Using virt-install
4.4 Importing Guest and Examples of Using Libguestfs Tools
4.5 Cloning Guest and Editing XML Configuration File
4.6 Managing Block device
4.6.1 Managing CDROM media
4.6.2 Attaching and Detaching Block Devices
4.7 Configuring Network Setup
4.8 Managing Snapshot
4.8.1 Creating Snapshot
4.8.2 Reverting Snapshot
4.8.3 Deleting Snapshot
4.8.4 Illustrations for Live Snapshot (Running Snapshot)
4.9 Auto-Starting Guest
4.10 Using Libvirt in Xen
4.10.1 Installing Libvrit Daemon for Xen
4.10.2 Installing a HVM guest using virt-install
4.10.3 Converting Xen DomU configuration into Libvirt’s XML file

5. Other Virtualization Software / Management Tools
5.1 VirtualBox
5.2 Container
5.2.1 Container Overview
5.2.2 System Containers
5.2.3 Application Containers
5.3 Virtualization / Cloud Management Tools
5.3.1 Virtualization Tools
5.3.2 Cloud Management Tools

6. High Availability Concepts and Theory
6.1 Cluster Architectures
6.1.1 Computer Cluster Overview
6.2 Failover Cluster Mechanisms
6.2.1 Quorum
6.2.2 Quorum with Witness
6.2.3 Fencing
6.2.4 Stonith Device
6.3 High Availability Accessment
6.4 Cluster Recovery

7. Load Balancing Cluster
7.1 Basic Linux Virtual Server (LVS) Setup
7.1.1 LVS Overview
7.1.2 Configuring LVS (Direct Routing)
7.1.3 Configuring LVS (NAT)
7.2 Keepalived
7.3 HAProxy
7.3.1 Overview
7.3.2 Basic Configuration
7.3.3 Monitoring Health
7.3.4 Backup Server
7.3.5 Persistent Connection
7.3.6 HTTPS
7.3.7 Access Logging
7.3.8 Using HAProxy with Keepalived
7.4 Other Load Balancing Software
7.4.1 ldirectord and heartbeat
7.4.2 pulse and nanny

8. Failover Cluster
8.1 Pacemaker and CoroSync Overiew
8.2 Basic Cluster Nodes Setup
8.2.1 Basic Installation and Cluster Setup
8.2.2 Additional Setup for our Simple Two-Nodes Cluster
8.3 Setting up a Simple Active / Passive Cluster
8.3.1 About Resources
8.3.2 Configuring Resources and Moving them among Nodes
8.4 Setting up a Simple Active / Active Cluster
8.4.1 Techniques for Modifying, Tuning and Simulating
8.5 About High-Availability Add-on / Extension
8.5.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux High Availabitliy Add-On
8.5.2 SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availabitliy Extension

9. Storage Cluster
9.1 Storage Overview
9.2 Storage For Failover Cluster
9.3 DRBD
9.3.1 Introduction
9.3.2 Installing and Configuring DRBD
9.3.3 Using DRBD in Pacemaker
9.4 Using SAN
9.4.1 Confiuring a simple SAN using iSCSI
9.4.2 File Locking Problem
9.4.3 File Caching Problem
9.4.4 LVM Problem
9.4.5 Implications About the Problems Found
9.5 Software for Fixing the Problems
9.5.1 Cluster File Systems
9.5.2 Lock Manager
9.5.3 cLVM2
9.6 Configuring Shared Storage in Cluster
9.7 More about STONOTH
9.7.1 Testing fence_scsci
9.7.2 Using fence_apc:
9.8 Load Balancing Feature of IPaddr2 (參考章節)