Managing Virtual Machines with Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization

Create and manage virtual machines on OpenShift using the Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization operator. Managing Virtual Machines with OpenShift Virtualization teaches the essential skills required to create and manage virtual machines (VM) on OpenShift using the Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization operator. This course does not require previous knowledge of containers and Kubernetes.

Who Can Benefit

• Virtual Machine Administrators who want to virtualize workloads from traditional Hypervisors to OpenShift Virtualization.
• Platform Engineers, Cloud Administrators, and System Administrators who want to support virtualized workloads, either independently from or in the same OpenShift cluster as containerized workloads.

Skills Gained

• Create VMs from installation media and disk images.
• Access text and graphical consoles of a VM.
• Connect to VMs using Kubernetes networking (services, ingress, and routes).
• Provision storage to VMs using Kubernetes storage (PVC, PV, and storage classes).
• Start, pause, and stop VMs.
• Clone and snapshot VMs.
• Create and seal golden VM images.
• Connect VMs to external and extra networks (outside of the Kubernetes pod and service networks).
• Provision load balancer services for VMs and then use the services to enable SSH access to VMs.
• Connect VMs to host storage and external storage.
• Create VMs from predefined and custom VM Templates and InstanceTypes.
• Migrate VMs from compatible hypervisors.
• Back up and restore VMs by using OADP and command-line tools .

Prerequisites

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• Red Hat OpenShift Administration I: Operating a Production Cluster (DO180) is recommended but not required.
• Linux skills are not required to manage OpenShift clusters and OpenShift Virtualization but managing individual Linux VMs requires Linux sysadmin skills provided by:
• Red Hat System Administration I (RH124) and Red Hat System Administration II (RH134) for managing the OS inside a Linux VM.

Course Content

Outline for this course

• Introduction to OpenShift Virtualization
• Run and access Virtual Machines
• Configure Kubernetes network for Virtual Machines
• Connect Virtual Machines to external networks
• Configure Kubernetes storage for Virtual Machines
• Virtual Machine template management
• Advanced Virtual Machine management
• Configure Kubernetes high availability for Virtual Machines