Certified Cloudstack Professional

Concepts

• What is CloudStack?
• What Can CloudStack Do?
• Deployment Architecture Overview

Cloud Infrastructure Concepts

• About Regions
• About Zones
• About Pods
• About Clusters
• About Hosts
• About Primary Storage
• About Secondary Storage
• About Physical Networks

Accounts

• Installation
• Accounts, Users and Domains
• Using an LDAP Server for User Authentication
• User Services Overview
• Service Offerings, Disk Offerings, Network Offerings, and Templates

User Interface

• Log In to the UI
• Using SSH Keys for Authentication

Using Projects to Organize Users and Resources

• Overview of Projects
• Configuring Projects
• Creating a New Project
• Adding Members to a Project
• Accepting a Membership Invitation
• Suspending or Deleting a Project
• Using the Project View

Steps to Provisioning Your Cloud Infrastructure

• Overview of Provisioning Steps
• Adding Regions (optional)
• Adding a Zone
• Adding a Pod
• Adding a Cluster
• Adding a Host
• Add Primary Storage
• Add Secondary Storage
• Initialize and Test

Service Offerings

• Compute and Disk Service Offerings
• Creating a New Disk Offering
• Network Throttling
• Changing the Default System Offering for System VMs

Setting Up Networking for Users

• Overview of Setting Up Networking for Users
• About Virtual Networks
• Network Service Providers
• Network Offerings

Working With Virtual Machines

• About Working with Virtual Machines
• Best Practices for Virtual Machines
• VM Lifecycle
• Creating VMs
• Accessing VMs
• Stopping and Starting VMs
• Assigning VMs to Hosts
• Virtual Machine Snapshots for VMware
• Changing the VM Name, OS, or Group
• Appending a Display Name to the Guest VM’s Internal Name
• Changing the Service Offering for a VM
• Resetting the Virtual Machine Root Volume on Reboot
• Moving VMs Between Hosts (Manual Live Migration)
• Deleting VMs
• Working with ISOs

Working With Hosts

• Adding Hosts
• Scheduled Maintenance and Maintenance Mode for Hosts
• Disabling and Enabling Zones, Pods, and Clusters
• Removing Hosts
• Re-Installing Hosts
• Maintaining Hypervisors on Hosts
• Changing Host Password
• Over-Provisioning and Service Offering Limits
• Hypervisor capabilities
• VLAN Provisioning

Working with Templates

• Creating Templates: Overview
• Requirements for Templates
• Best Practices for Templates
• The Default Template
• Creating a Template from an Existing Virtual Machine
• Creating a Template from a Snapshot
• Uploading Templates
• Exporting Templates
• Creating a Windows Template
• Importing Amazon Machine Images
• Converting a Hyper-V VM to a Template
• Adding Password Management to Your Templates
• Deleting Templates

Working With Storage

• Storage Overview
• Primary Storage
• Secondary Storage
• Working With Volumes
• Working with Snapshots

Working with Usage

• Configuring the Usage Server
• Setting Usage Limits
• Globally Configured Limits
• Limiting Resource Usage

Managing Networks and Traffic

• Guest Traffic
• Networking in a Pod
• Networking in a Zone
• Basic Zone Physical Network Configuration
• Advanced Zone Physical Network Configuration
• Using Multiple Guest Networks
• IP Reservation in Isolated Guest Networks
• Reserving Public IP Addresses and VLANs for Accounts
• Configuring Multiple IP Addresses on a Single NIC
• About Multiple IP Ranges
• About Elastic IP
• Portable IPs
• Multiple Subnets in Shared Network
• Isolation in Advanced Zone Using Private VLAN
• Security Groups
• External Firewalls and Load Balancers
• Global Server Load Balancing Support
• Guest IP Ranges
• Acquiring a New IP Address
• Releasing an IP Address
• Static NAT
• IP Forwarding and Firewalling
• IP Load Balancing
• DNS and DHCP
• Remote Access VPN
• About Inter-VLAN Routing (nTier Apps)
• Configuring a Virtual Private Cloud
• Persistent Networks

System Virtual Machines

• The System VM Template
• Accessing System VMs
• Multiple System VM Support for VMware
• Console Proxy
• Virtual Router
• Secondary Storage VM

System Reliability and High Availability

• HA for Management Server
• Management Server Load Balancing
• HA-Enabled Virtual Machines
• HA for Hosts
• Primary Storage Outage and Data Loss
• Secondary Storage Outage and Data Loss
• Limiting the Rate of API Requests

Managing the Cloud

• Using Tags to Organize Resources in the Cloud
• Changing the Database Configuration
• Changing the Database Password
• Administrator Alerts
• Customizing the Network Domain Name
• Stopping and Restarting the Management Server

Setting Configuration Parameters

• About Configuration Parameters
• Setting Global Configuration Parameters
• Setting Local Configuration Parameters
• Granular Global Configuration Parameters

CloudStack API

• Provisioning and Authentication API
• Allocators
• User Data and Meta Data

Tuning

• Performance Monitoring
• Increase Management Server Maximum Memory
• Set Database Buffer Pool Size
• Set and Monitor Total VM Limits per Host
• Configure XenServer dom Memory

Troubleshooting

• Events
• Working with Server Logs
• Data Loss on Exported Primary Storage
• Recovering a Lost Virtual Router
• Maintenance mode not working on vCenter
• Unable to deploy VMs from uploaded vSphere template
• Unable to power on virtual machine on VMware
• Load balancer rules fail after changing network offering