Red Hat Certified Virtualization Administrator (RHCVA)
The Red Hat Certified Virtualization Administrator (RHCVA) is a certification program offered by Red Hat, Inc., focusing on validating the skills and knowledge of IT professionals in deploying and managing virtualization infrastructure using Red Hat Virtualization. Red Hat Virtualization is an open-source virtualization platform that allows users to create and manage virtual machines and virtualized resources.
To earn the RHCVA certification, candidates must demonstrate proficiency in tasks such as:
- Installing and configuring Red Hat Virtualization Manager.
- Creating and managing data centers and clusters.
- Configuring storage domains and storage options within Red Hat Virtualization.
- Creating and managing virtual machines and templates.
- Configuring networking in Red Hat Virtualization environments.
- Implementing advanced features such as high availability, live migration, and disaster recovery.
- Monitoring and troubleshooting Red Hat Virtualization environments.
- Securing Red Hat Virtualization environments.
- The RHCVA certification is designed for IT professionals who are responsible for deploying, managing, and maintaining virtualized infrastructure using Red Hat Virtualization. It validates the skills needed to effectively administer virtualized environments and is recognized as a valuable credential in the industry.
Course Objectives:
- Install Red Hat Virtualization Manager (RHVM) and Red Hat Virtualization
Hypervisor (RHVH)- Install Red Hat Virtualization Manager and any dependencies
- Configure Red Hat Virtualization Manager to authenticate against an external IPA service.
- Install Red Hat Virtualization Hypervisor
- Add one or more Red Hat Virtualization Hypervisor instances to Red Hat Virtualization Manager
- Create and manage datacenters and clusters
- Manage storage
- Configure NFS services
- Configure storage domains
- Import installation media into a storage domain
- Create and manage virtual machines
- Install virtual machines
- Access virtual machine consoles with SPICE and VNC
- Start and stop virtual machines
- Edit virtual machine hardware characteristics
- Configure automatic migration for virtual machines
- Work with virtual machine images
- Create snapshots
- Create virtual machines from snapshots
- Import existing virtual machine images into Red Hat Virtualization Manager
- Create and manage Red Hat Virtualization Manager users
- Create internal users
- Create external users
- Configure roles and assign users to those roles
- Configure access using roles
- Automatically deploy virtual machines
- Create virtual machine templates
- Deploy virtual machines using templates
- Configure virtual machines using cloud-init
- Create and manage networking objects
- Create logical networks
- Assign hosts to logical networks
- Create MAC address pools
- Assign MAC address pools to clusters
- Create and manage cluster policies
- Create scheduling and migration policies
- Assign policies to clusters