IBM Agile Lifecycle Manager provides a comprehensive services design, testing and automated deployment solution that address the challenges and complexities of the NFV paradigm. IBM Agile Lifecycle Manager helps service providers effectively streamline service delivery, minimize complexity, and deliver innovative new services to customers at significant speed and lower cost of operations. This course gives you an overview of the tasks involved to deploy a virtualized service. You use hands-on exercises to learn how to design and build a service based on virtual network functions (VNFs) with IBM Agile Lifecycle Manager.

• Integrate the software of a virtual network function (VNF) into the lifecycle model, onboard it to a resource manager, and onboard the resource manager into ALM.
• Design services on top of VNFs and build assembly descriptors describing the components of the service and relationships between them.
• Manage the lifecycle of services and underlying resources

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Knowledge of Linux Administration

• Lesson 1: Onboard Resources
• Lesson 2: Service Design part 1
• Lesson 2: Service Design part 2
• Lesson 4: Deploy and Maintain Service

Prior to enrolling, IBM Employees must follow their Division/Department processes to obtain approval to attend this public training class. Failure to follow Division/Department approval processes may result in the IBM Employee being personally responsible for the class charges.

GBS practitioners that use the EViTA system for requesting external training should use that same process for this course. Go to the EViTA site to start this process:

http://w3.ibm.com/services/gbs/evita/BCSVTEnrl.nsf

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• The current GTP list price
• The 20% discounted price available to IBMers. This is the price you will be invoiced for the class.