Build a production-ready oVirt (Red Hat Virtualization) environment from the ground up in this entirely lab-driven course. Students install the oVirt Engine on RHEL 7, deploy KVM-based hypervisor nodes, and configure enterprise iSCSI storage and networking before progressing to virtual machine provisioning, template management, and directory-integrated user access control.
The curriculum covers the full oVirt administration lifecycle: engine setup with PostgreSQL and JBoss, hypervisor node deployment and registration, iSCSI and ISO storage domain management, server and desktop VM provisioning for both Linux and Windows guests, hot-add hardware operations, disk snapshot workflows, VM sealing with virt-sysprep, template creation with thick and thin clone provisioning, IdM/IPA integration via LDAP for role-based access, VM pool management, and CLI administration through ovirt-shell.
Every chapter centers on guided lab exercises performed on a multi-node oVirt cluster, giving students direct, hands-on experience with the tools and workflows used in production RHV deployments. With over five hours of structured lab time across ten lab exercises, students leave prepared to deploy, configure, and manage enterprise virtualization infrastructure in data center environments.