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$3,580USD
Duration 4 days
Course Code QZC30G
Available Formats Classroom, Virtual
Next Class: Nov 16, 2026

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Overview

Course Description

This course provides the technical skills required to plan, install, configure, and administer IBM PowerVC in an IBM Power private cloud environment. Through instructor-led discussions and hands-on labs, students work with PowerVC architecture, HMC-managed and PowerVM NovaLink-managed hosts, virtual machines, images, deploy templates, storage, networks, projects, users, and policies.

 

Students install and configure PowerVC and NovaLink, integrate managed hosts, provision virtual machines, and perform common cloud administration tasks in a live lab environment. Upon successful completion, students can manage Infrastructure-as-a-Service capabilities for IBM PowerVM-based systems and earn an IBM digital badge recognizing the skills developed in the course.

Skills Gained

After completing this course, you should be able to:

  • Analyze IBM PowerVC architecture, OpenStack integration, key features, and benefits
  • Evaluate IBM PowerVC planning requirements for compute, storage, networking, security, and performance
  • Implement IBM PowerVC installation, upgrade, configuration, and resource registration
  • Demonstrate IBM PowerVC graphical and command-line administration tasks
  • Administer users, projects, roles, images, virtual machines, storage, networks, logs, backup and restore, and placement policies
  • Analyze cloud computing concepts and how they apply to IBM PowerVC private and hybrid cloud environments
  • Manage virtual machine images, deployments, lifecycle operations, and cloud-init requirements
  • Analyze, plan, install, and integrate IBM PowerVM NovaLink with IBM PowerVC

Who Can Benefit

This course is open to all interested learners, regardless of their experience. Typical students include customers, IBM technical personnel, business partner technical personnel, and IT engineers and architects.

Prerequisites

Students must already know the basics of configuring and managing a virtual I/O server and virtual devices as well as know how to use the HMC to manage partitions. This prerequisite can be met by attending the following course:

  • AN30G Power Systems for AIX - PowerVM I: Implementing Virtualization
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Course Details

Course Details

Day 1:

  • Course Administration and Introduction (00:15)  
  • Unit 1: Introduction to IBM PowerVC and OpenStack (01:00)  
  • Unit 2: Planning for IBM PowerVC (01:00)  
  • Unit 3: Installation and Upgrade of IBM PowerVC (01:00)  
  • Exercise period 1 (03:15)  
  • Exercise 1. Verification of Prerequisites (01:00)  
  • Exercise 2. Installation of IBM PowerVC (01:30)
  • Exercise 3. Adding Hosts and Virtual Machines to IBM PowerVC (00:45)

Day 2: 

  • Unit 4: IBM PowerVC User Interfaces (01:00)  
  • Unit 5: IBM PowerVC Administrative Tasks (02:00)  
  • Exercise period 2 (03:30)
  • Exercise 4. Using the IBM PowerVC User Interfaces (01:00)
  • Exercise 5. IBM PowerVC Administration (01:00)
  • Exercise 6. Working with OpenStack Projects, Policies and Users (01:30)

Day 3:

  • Unit 6: Transitioning to Cloud Computing (01:30)  
  • Unit 7: Features of IBM PowerVC (00:45)  
  • Unit 8: Managing Images and Virtual Machines with IBM PowerVC (01:15)
  • Exercise period 3 (03:00)  
  • Exercise 7. Live and Regular Capture to Create Images and Deploy Templates (01:00)
  • Exercise 8. Self-service Provisioning with IBM PowerVC (01:00)  
  • Exercise 9. Metering and REST APIs (00:30)  
  • Exercise 10. Stopping and removal of Resources (00:30)

Day 4:

  • Unit 9: Introduction to IBM PowerVM NovaLink (01:00)  
  • Unit 10: Planning and Installing IBM PowerVM NovaLink (01:30)
  • Unit 11: Using IBM PowerVM NovaLink with IBM PowerVC (01:00)  
  • Exercise period 4 (03:00)  
  • Exercise 11. (Shared Exercise) Installation of IBM PowerVM NovaLink (01:30)
  • Exercise 12. (Shared Exercise) Integration of IBM PowerVC with IBM PowerVM NovaLink (00:30)
  • Exercise 13. (Shared Exercise) Capture and Deploy using IBM PowerVM NovaLink and IBM PowerVC Upgrade (01:00)

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Reviews

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The class covered the concepts needed for the AWS Cloud Practitioner Certification.

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