Duration
3 days
Audience
This intermediate course is designed for software developers, solution administrators, technical professionals, and operators who are interested in developing and deploying patterns with IBM PureApplication System.
Prerequisites
You should have a general knowledge of virtualization and hypervisors. You should also review background materials about cloud computing and IBM PureApplication System that you receive before the class.
At Course Completion
- Describe the three deployment models or patterns that IBM PureApplication System supports
- Build and deploy the following patterns:
- Virtual application pattern
- Database pattern
- Virtual system pattern
- Use the IBM Image Construction and Composition Tool to build and deploy a custom image
- Build and deploy a virtual system pattern from the command-line interface
- Monitor deployed patterns by using the internal and external monitoring aspects of PureApplication System
Course Outline
- Course introduction
- Patterns of expertise
- Exercise: Exploring the system and workload consoles
- Deployment model: Database pattern
- Exercise: Building and deploying a database pattern
- Deployment model: Virtual application pattern
- Exercise: Building and deploying a web application pattern
- Deployment model: Virtual system pattern
- Exercise: Building and deploying a virtual system pattern
- Building custom images with the IBM Image Construction and Composition Tool
- Exercise: Developing a custom software bundle with the IBM Image Construction and Composition Tool
- Exercise: Building and deploying a custom image
- Command-line interface
- Exercise: Using the command-line interface tool to build and deploy a virtual system pattern
- Exercise: Developing a software bundle with the ICCT command-line interface
- Monitoring capabilities: Deployment role
- Exercise: Monitoring the workload of PureApplication System
Programme scope, delivery arrangements and suitability are confirmed during enquiry.