

Introduction to Red Hat Ceph Storage
- Introduce Red Hat Ceph Storage architecture, components, and attributes
Describe Red Hat Ceph Storage components and features
- Describe the components and features of Red Hat Ceph Storage
Deploy and access Red Hat Ceph Storage
- Create snapshots and clones for Red Hat Ceph Storage
Create snapshots and clones
- Manage snapshots and clones of a Ceph Block Device (RBD)
Ceph with the Glance Image service
- Integrate Ceph with the OpenStack Glance Image service to store OpenStack images in Ceph
Ceph with the Cinder Block Storage service
- Integrate Ceph with the OpenStack Cinder Block Storage service to provide OpenStack volumes in Ceph
Ceph with the Nova compute service
- Integrate Ceph with the OpenStack Nova compute service to store instance data in Ceph
Introduce networking fundamentals
- Review networking concepts and deploy OpenStack with a separate Neutron networking node
Network interfaces
- Manage network interfaces manually (using the ip command) and persistently
Virtual bridging
- Install and manage virtual network bridges
Virtual network devices
- Create and deploy virtual network devices
Network namespaces
- Manage and implement networks inside a network namespace
Neutron services
- Verify and manage the Neutron services
Provisioning tenant networks
- Provision tenant networks using VXLAN tunnels, GRE tunnels, and VLANs
Implementing load-balancer-as-a-service (LBaaS)
- Implement LbaaS
Neutron networking services
- Diagnose and troubleshoot issues with the Neutron networking service
Comprehensive Review
- Review tasks from the Red Hat OpenStack III course
This course is intended for:
Experienced Linux® system administrators responsible for managing OpenStack environments who want to learn:
- To configure scalable and distributed storage as a storage back end for OpenStack
- The advanced features offered by OpenStack Neutron
Students attending this course should have:
Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE®) certification or equivalent experience
Red Hat Certified System Administrator in Red Hat OpenStack certification or equivalent experience
Have taken Red Hat OpenStack Administration (CL210) course
Course content summary
- Deploy Red Hat Ceph Storage
- Manage snapshots in Red Hat Ceph Storage
- Access Ceph Storage through Ceph block device (RBD) and Ceph object gateway (RADOSGW)
- Configure Red Hat Ceph Storage as a storage back end for OpenStack Services
- Manage networks based on VXLAN, VLAN and GRE
- Deploy and using load-balancer-as-a-service (LBaaS) in OpenStack Neutron
- Troubleshoot Neutron issues