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Course description: PowerLinux Fundamentals

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Course code LX210 Skill level Basic
Duration 3.0 days Delivery type Classroom
(Hands-on labs)
Course type Public or Private on-site    
Public price USD $2,750.00 plus tax    

This course is designed to teach the installation, configuration, administration, and troubleshooting of SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server and Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Power 7 servers. Class activities include installing, configuring, administering, and troubleshooting Linux in a native system environment.

This course provides lectures and hands on labs in a face-to-face classroom setting. The course is also offered in a live virtual classroom environment (ILO - Instructor Led Online) with hands-on labs PowerLinux Fundamentals (ILO) (LZ210).

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Training Paths that reference this course are:

  • AIX Security, Network Administration, Problem Determination, Virtualization and Performance

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IBM Education Advantage Program Eligibility:

  • Yes - Education Pack - online account

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Audience

The audiences for this basic training include System p and BladeCenter support personnel, AIX/Linux technical support individuals, AIX/Linux developers, AIX/Linux system administrators, system architects and engineers, product engineers, and post-sales support teams.

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Prerequisites

You should have a basic background in systems administration and/or troubleshooting. No previous courseware is required.

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Skills taught

  • Describe the different execution environments that each Linux distribution runs on for POWER processor-based systems
  • Install a given Linux distribution within a native system environment
  • Configure a given Linux distribution within a native system environment
  • Manage a given Linux distribution within a native system environment
  • Locate and utilize IBM Service and Productivity tools
  • Navigate Open Firmware subsystem
  • Customize the configuration of the Yaboot boot loader
  • Access Rescue Mode on a Linux Distribution

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Course outline

  • Unit 1: PowerLinux introduction
  • Unit 2: PowerVM
  • Unit 3: Utilizing Open Firmware
  • Unit 4: Installing Linux on Power
  • Unit 5: Power systems device management
  • Unit 6: Boot loader configuration
  • Unit 7: Rescue mode

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