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Red Hat Enterprise Clustering and Storage Management

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Length: 4 days   Fee: $3,200   Course #: RH436

Course Description

Manage Red Hat Enterprise Linux deployments

Red Hat® Enterprise Clustering and Storage Management (RH436) provides intensive, hands-on experience with storage management, Red Hat Cluster Suite, and the shared storage technology delivered by Red Hat Global File System (GFS). Created for Senior Linux® system administrators, this 4-day course has a strong emphasis on lab-based activities. At the end of the course, students will have learned to deploy and manage shared storage and server clusters that provide highly available network services to a mission-critical enterprise environment.

Course Topics:

Course content summary:

  • Review of Red Hat enterprise clustering and storage management technologies
  • Linux dynamic device management
  • iSCSI
  • Advanced software RAID
  • Device mapper and multipathing

Course Audience:

- Experienced Linux system administrators responsible for managing shared storage across one or more Linux systems
- Experienced Linux system administrators responsible for maintaining a high availability service using cluster technology

Course PreRequisites:

RHCE certification or equivalent experience

Course Outline:

Manage Red Hat Enterprise Linux deployments

 

  1. Review Red Hat® enterprise clustering and storage management technologies

  2. Storage Technologies

    • Storage Requirements

    • NAS vs SAN

  3. iSCSI

    • iSCSI as a shared storage device

    • Configuring an iSCSI initiator

    • Configuring an iSCSI target

    • Authentication

  4. Kernel Device Management

    • udev Features

    • udev Rule Configuration

    • I/O Scheduler

  5. Device mapper and multipathing

    • Mapping targets

    • Multipath device configuration

  6. Red Hat Cluster suite overview

    • Design and elements of clustering

    • Cluster configuration tools

  7. Logical Volume Management

    • LVM Review

    • Setting up Clustered Logical Volumes

  8. Global File System (GFS) 2 (MOVED UP)

    • Implementation and configuration

    • Lock management

    • Planning for and growing on-line GFS

    • Monitoring tools

    • Journal configuration and management

  9. Quorum and the cluster manager

    • Intracluster communication

    • Cluster tools

  10. Fencing and failover

    • Fencing components

    • Failover domains

  11. Quorum disk

    • Heuristic configuration

  12. Resource Group Manager (rgmanager)

    • Resource groups and recovery

    • Hierarchical resource ordering

    • High availability services

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