Program Overview

Program Overview

The ALTVIRT program is a module of the professional retraining program in System and Network Administration of OS Alt. This course aims to provide students with knowledge and practical skills in deploying and operating virtualization platforms as part of the Alt Server Virtualization product.

Program Details

• Duration: 40 academic hours
• Schedule: 5 sessions of 8 academic hours or 10 sessions of 4 academic hours
• Level of Complexity: Not specified
• Tuition Fees:
  • For individuals: 40,000
  • For legal entities: 40,000
  • Distance learning: 24,000
• Discounts:
  • 10% discount: 36,000
  • 15% discount: 34,000
  • Discounts for legal entities are provided based on the number of listeners, contract amount, and other conditions agreed upon with the customer.

Requirements for Students

To successfully complete this course, students should possess:

• Knowledge of the directory tree, user hierarchy, basic file types in Linux
• Ability to install and configure OS Alt, organize system services
• Confident command-line interface skills

For distance learning, students need:

• A node with Alt 9th platform distribution installed
• CPU: at least 2 cores with hardware virtualization support
• RAM: at least 4GB
• At least 50GB of free disk space

Course Content

1. Virtualization in OS Alt

• Basics of virtualization in OS Alt
• Hardware support for virtualization
• KVM - Kernel-based Virtual Machines
• Lightweight virtualization, containers
• Additional virtualization tools in OS Alt

2. Alt Server Virtualization (ALT Virtualization Server)

• Virtualization tools in OS Alt
• PVE - Proxmox Virtual Environment
• OpenNebula
• Container virtualization
• Installation of Alt Server Virtualization
• Monitoring and diagnostics of virtual environments

3. Basic Virtualization in OS Alt (libvirt)

• Virtualization based on libvirt
• Working with images and virtual machines
• Storage management in libvirt
• VM migration between nodes
• Monitoring basic virtualization

4. Storage Management in Virtual Environments

• Classification of storage systems
• Local storage - directory, ZFS, LVM, LVM-thin
• Network storage - iSCSI, NFS, CIFS
• Distributed storage - GlusterFS, CephFS, Ceph/RBD

5. Adapter and Network Management in Virtual Environments

• Network interaction of virtual machines
• Virtual network switch OpenvSwitch
• Network load balancers HAProxy, keepalived

6. PVE - Proxmox Virtual Environment

• Installation and configuration of PVE
• Storage systems
• Working with KVM virtual machines
• Migration of virtual machines and high availability
• Built-in PVE monitoring

7. Lightweight Virtualization in OS Alt

• Features of lightweight virtualization
• LXC/LXD
• LXC containers with libvirt
• LXC containers in PVE
• Docker/Podman
• Container orchestration systems

8. OpenNebula Platform in OS Alt

• Platform architecture
• Installation and launch
• Working with images
• Creating templates and virtual machines

Instructors

• (Orlov Egor Sergeevich)
• (Chelin Aleksey Yurievich)

Related Courses

• ALTADM1. Administration of OS Alt. Part 1
• ALTADM2. Administration of OS Alt. Part 2

Professional Retraining Programs

• System and Network Administration of OS Alt

Educational Organization

(Higher Engineering School) of - (St. Petersburg Polytechnic University Peter the Great)