• Basic understanding of cloud and virtualization technologies
• Basic VMware skills
• Basic Linux skills

• Identify the challenges in your organization that IBM Cloud Orchestrator can address
• Identify the architecture of IBM Cloud Orchestrator and OpenStack components
• Prepare for and install IBM Cloud Orchestrator
• Manage IBM Cloud Orchestrator components
• Access the IBM Cloud Orchestrator user interfaces and explore the key features
• Create and manage domains, projects, users, images, virtual system patterns (vSys.classic and vSys.next), and pattern instances in a multi-tenant environment
• Use Business Process Manager artifacts to define self-service categories and offerings in IBM Cloud Orchestrator
• Implement authentication using an external corporate directory server
• Identify the tools in Cloud Marketplace that would be most useful to your organization

Introducing IBM Cloud Orchestrator

• Introduction to IBM Cloud Orchestrator
• Key features in IBM Cloud Orchestrator
• Positioning IBM Cloud Orchestrator

Exploring the IBM Cloud Orchestrator environment

• OpenStack Icehouse overview
• IBM Cloud Orchestrator architecture

Installing IBM Cloud Orchestrator 2.4

• Deployment service overview
• Installation
• Deployment templates
• Verification and troubleshooting
• High availability considerations
• Classroom environment

Administering IBM Cloud Orchestrator

• Operating the IBM Cloud Orchestrator environment
• Using the IBM Cloud Orchestrator interfaces
• Customizing the user interfaces
• Public Cloud Gateway

Creating and managing objects

• Security model and terminology
• Regions, availability zones, and quotas
• Network considerations

IBM Cloud Orchestrator image management

• OpenStack Glance image service architecture
• Image service configuration
• IBM Cloud Orchestrator image management

Building, managing, and deploying patterns

• Images and patterns
• Virtual system classic pattern
• Virtual application pattern
• Virtual system pattern
• Heat overview and components
• Troubleshooting

Managing the deployed environment

• Managing the deployed environment
• Display instance and virtual machine details
• Managing pattern instances and virtual machines
• Modify virtual machine settings
• Virtual machine disk management
• On-board existing virtual machines
• Virtual machine snapshots

Introduction to Business Process Manager

• Orchestration overview
• IBM Business Process Manager overview
• IBM Process Designer
• Business Process Manager artifacts
• Managing self-service categories and offerings
• Toolkits
• Orchestration actions
• Introduction to modifying an offering
• Managing the process application lifecycle

Integration with LDAP

• LDAP authentication options for IBM Cloud Orchestrator
• Configuring LDAP integration
• LDAP integration content pack

IBM Cloud marketplace

• IBM Cloud marketplace
• Obtaining material from the IBM Cloud marketplace
• Using IBM Cloud marketplace assets in IBM Cloud Orchestrator