Introduction to Private Cloud Management on IBM Power Systems

IBM Cloud PowerVC Manager, an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) enabling software, provides a self-service cloud console for managing IBM Power Systems. It is built on OpenStack. OpenStack is a collection of open-source software projects that enterprises can use to run their own private cloud infrastructure. This course explains most cloud management features, starting with setting up a private cloud environment from the ground up. It then covers planning, sizing and other advanced administrative tasks you can perform to become an efficient system administrator.

• Recognize the OpenStack terminologies and identify similarities with IBM PowerVCRecognize the procedure to configure storage providers and connectivity groupsSummarize the procedure to work with IBM PowerVC GUI and CLIRecall the general settings, templates, storage and network settings in IBM PowerVCSummarize the IBM PowerVC security and user management featuresSummarize the virtual machine capture requirementsIdentify the latest feature highlights of IBM Cloud PowerVC Manager