varelg wrote: » Maybe I didn't quite explained it: what I am looking for is a cloud- based virtual lab with 5-6 virtual machines each running Linux, that is easily accessible over the web from a tablet... and priced less than a new higher-end laptop
onesaint wrote: » A good review of the RHCSA exam from Lethe's Tuxforge can be found here.
Slowhand wrote: » It's not RHCSA/RHCE specific, but LinuxCBT has a video series on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 available now. I watched a few videos from this vendor a while back, and I have to say they were pretty informative. I wouldn't put them in the same class as (most of) CBT Nuggets, but definitely worth a look.
YuckTheFankees wrote: » go to www.vtc.com and search red hat
techinthewoods wrote: » Nice. 3 good looking series of videos there. Are you using any of them? I haven't clicked through to the pricing yet... lol.
techinthewoods wrote: » Thanks YuckTheFankees & onesaint. Both look great and I agree that the price is more than fair. I'm checking both out as time permits.
YuckTheFankees wrote: » **I really enjoyed Michael Jangs book but it does skip around a lot (the only small negative)
YuckTheFankees wrote: » No problem at all. Have you started to study for the exam? **I really enjoyed Michael Jangs book but it does skip around a lot (the only small negative)
onesaint wrote: » No problem! Ah, time permitting... If only there were closer to 30 hours in a day. I have something like 6 or 7 books lined up for when I'm done with the RHCSA. Which incidentally, they (RH) just canceled my scheduled exam. I had to reschedule it another few weeks out and the location adds a 45 minute drive (but, hey, it's next to Disneyland!). It takes some getting used to. Initially, I was working along while reading, then it seemed that wasn't necessarily Jang's intention, yet he refers to things you should have set up in later chapters. Still, there is no implicit statement that these things should be set up. a tad annoying, but otherwise an easy read and great book. I think I'm going to pick up Tommasino's book as well and run through the labs in there.
techinthewoods wrote: » I've heard that same thing about Jang's book many times, which is why I ordered Tommasino's book too. It would be cool if someone would do a quick writeup of the out-of-order steps in Jang's book and which step to jump to for a quick solution. 30 hour days.... wouldn't that be great!
onesaint wrote: » Funny, I wrote this up while I was going through the first two chapters. After that it flows pretty well. Chapter 1 Tasks:Read through chapter 1 without attempting exercises or labs Note drive partition suggestions (somewhat important for VM labs). Note basic installation steps Download demo of RHEL, download Scientific Linux 6 / CentOS 6 I grabbed a 30 day evaluation of RHEL (requires registration) and the flavors Do Exercise 1.1 - Partitioning during install of RHEL (or flavor) on VM server if you setup the VM host as part of exercise 1, ignore the partitions he noted as you will need more space for VMs I'm working remotely, so setup VNC for host machine. Here's good instructions. Follow along with noted basic installation steps If using a server to host VMs, ensure it is KVM capable Intel vmx or AMD svm #egrep "vmx|svm" /proc/cpuinfo | less in less type "/vmx" to search for vmx in the results Setup and configure default file sharing services (http & ftp) on VM host Do Exercise 1.2 - configure Apache and vsFTP on VM host Do Lab 1 Do Lab 2 - copy install media contents to the share directory on VM host Do Lab 3 Chapter 2 Tasks: Ensure KVM is installed (pdf p.4-6) Ensure the KVM modules are installed correctly #lsmod | grep kvm run "virt-manager" with root privileges from a shell within the GUI The hypervisor (virt-manager) is supposed to prompt for the root password if run from a normal user, but I was unable to run it at all that way. Thus, VMM was not an option from the user's desktop menu Do Exercise 2-1 within the hypervisor Configure and create a VM (pdf p.15-19) Do Exercise 2-2 with the VM you just created (why wasn't that an exercise?) Note the VM deletion method on p.24 Configure VM server to be a kickstart server (pdf p.29-31) Do Exercise 2-3 Install kickstart configurator and create kickstart file with it. *Name it something different than the ks config from Exercise 2-3 Configure X over SSH on VM server or one of the VMs Work through the 8 Labs.
techinthewoods wrote: » I noticed the book has so much repition between "exercises" and labs. In chapter 2 for example, it has me build the server1.example.com server during an exercise, then has me build it again in Lab 1 using the same name. Does he intend for a lot of system deletions? It never mentions deleting them, and then future labs seem to reference these, like "using the system from lab 1..." . Well, no, I deleted the system from Lab 1 because you had me build an identical system in Exercise 2-1 with the same name and ip address. Same with Lab 3 and Lab 4. Both are building the tester1.example.com system. Which one do I keep? It does seem much more linear in chapters 3+.
