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RHEL Clustering and Storage Management

GL645 - RHEL Clustering and Storage Management

Upcoming GL645 Classes

  1. Remote Classroom Training

    Sep 04 – Sep 06 2013
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  2. Utah, Salt Lake City (Centerville)

    Sep 04 – Sep 06 2013
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<p>Current Version: B00</p>

Prerequisites:

<p>This course requires an advanced knowledge of Linux system administration. These skills are taught in the GL250 "Enterprise Linux Systems Administration" and GL120 "Linux Fundamentals".</p>

Supported Distributions:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Course Outline:

  1. Introduction to Clustering and Storage Management
    1. Clustering Introduction
    2. Cluster Building Blocks
    3. Shared Storage
    4. Operating System Setup
    5. Network Considerations
    6. Split Brain Prevention with Fencing
    7. HA Components
    8. Clustered Resources
    9. Configuration Tools
    10. Red Hat Cluster Stack Roadmap
    Lab Tasks
    1. Prepare System for Clustering
    2. Install and Configure Ricci
    3. Basic Client Networking
    4. SAN Network Configuration
    5. Cluster Network Configuration
  2. Storage Technologies
    1. Remote Storage Overview
    2. Remote Filesystem Protocols
    3. Remote Block Device Protocols
    4. Block Devices and the Device Mapper
    5. Managing Loopback Devices
    Lab Tasks
    1. Manipulating Block Devices
  3. iscsi
    1. iSCSI Architecture
    2. iSCSI Target Implementations
    3. iSCSI Target Configuration (tgt)
    4. iSCSI Target LUN Configuration (tgt)
    5. iSCSI Target Auth Configuration (tgt)
    6. iSCSI Persistent Configuration (tgt)
    7. Open-iSCSI Initiator Implementation
    8. iSCSI Initiator Discovery
    9. iSCSI Initiator Node Administration
    10. Mounting iSCSI Targets at Boot
    11. iSCSI Multipathing Considerations
    Lab Tasks
    1. iSCSI Initiator Configuration
  4. Kernel Device Management
    1. Managing Linux Device Files
    2. Kernel Hardware Info – /sys/
    3. /sys/ Structure
    4. udev
    5. I/O Elevators
    Lab Tasks
    1. Creating Custom UDEV Rules
  5. Device Mapper and Multipathing
    1. SAN Multipathing
    2. Multipath Configuration
    3. Multipathing Best Practices
    Lab Tasks
    1. Multipath Configuration
  6. Logical Volume Management
    1. Logical Volume Management
    2. Implementing LVM
    3. Creating Logical Volumes
    4. Manipulating VGs & LVs
    5. Advanced LVM Concepts
    6. system-config-lvm
    7. cLVM
    Lab Tasks
    1. Creating and Managing LVM Volumes
    2. cLVM
  7. Global File System (GFS) 2
    1. GFS2 Overview
    2. GFS2 Capabilities
    3. GFS2 Theory of Operation
    4. GFS2 Configuration Prerequisites
    5. Setting Up Cluster LVM
    6. GFS2 Filesystem Creation
    7. GFS2 Filesystem Management
    8. GFS2 Fencing Requirement
    Lab Tasks
    1. GFS2
  8. Quorum and the Cluster Manager
    1. Vocabulary
    2. Network Topology
    3. Host Configuration
    4. Ethernet Bonding
    5. Broadcast vs. Multicast vs. Unicast
    6. IPv6 Considerations
    7. Storage: cLVM
    8. Ricci
    9. cluster.conf Overview
    10. CCS & Conga
    11. Cluster Quorum
    12. Corosync
    13. Corosync - Dual Ring Configuration
    14. CMAN
    15. CMAN Utility: cman_tool
    16. Quorum Administration
    17. Quorum Disk
    18. Upgrading
    19. Distributed Lock Manager
    20. dlm_tool
    Lab Tasks
    1. Totem RRP
    2. Quorum and Qdisk
    3. Conga
  9. Fencing and Failover
    1. Fencing Introduction
    2. Node Based Fencing
    3. Resource Based Fencing
    4. Fencing Architecture
    5. Fencing Agents
    6. Fencing Agents listing
    7. Fencing Daemon
    8. Fencing XML Example
    9. Fencing in cluster.conf
    10. Fencing Daemon Tuning
    11. Manual Fencing
    12. Best Practices
    13. Failover Domains
    14. Failover Domain Characteristics
    15. Failover Domain Administration
    Lab Tasks
    1. Fencing with fence_scsi
    2. Failover Domains
  10. Resource Group Manager
    1. Resource Management Overview
    2. Component Relationships
    3. Resource Agents
    4. Discover Resource Agents
    5. Available Resource Agents
    6. Resources
    7. Resource Scope
    8. Resource Actions: Timeout
    9. Resource Actions: Status
    10. Resource Administration
    11. Resource Group Management
    12. Service Group Attributes & Policies
    13. Service Group Administration
    14. Service Group States
    15. Service Group Operations
    16. Service Group Administration
    17. Best Practices & Troubleshooting
    Lab Tasks
    1. Resource Group Manager