RH437 Red Hat High Availability Clustering With Exam Training
The intensive, hands-on Red Hat® High Availability Clustering (RH436) course teaches storage management, the Red Hat High Availability Add-On, and the shared storage technology delivered by Red Hat Global File System 2 (GFS2) and Red Hat Gluster Storage. Created for senior Linux® system administrators, this 4-day course strongly emphasizes lab-based activities. You'll learn how to deploy and manage shared storage and server clusters that [..]
Duration
5 days.
Prerequisites
- RHCE certification or equivalent experience
Skills Gained
- Setup and management of high-availability clustered services with Red Hat Cluster Suite
- Providing iSCSI targets with Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- Customization and control of device files with udev
- Storage I/O multipath with device mapper
- Using cluster Logical Volume Management (LVM)
- Configuration and use of the Red Hat Global File System cluster file system for shared storage
Who Can Benefit?
- An experienced Linux system administrator responsible for managing shared storage across 1 or more Linux systems
- An experienced Linux system administrator responsible for maintaining a high-availability service using cluster technology
- An RHCE interested in earning a Red Hat Certificate of Expertise, a Red Hat Certified Datacenter Specialist (RHCDS) or a Red Hat Certified Architect (RHCA) credential
Outline for Red Hat High Availability Clustering With Exam Training
Storage technologies
- Storage Requirements
- NAS vs. SAN
iSCSI
- iSCSI as a shared storage device
- Configuring an iSCSI initiator
- Configuring an iSCSI target
- Authentication
Kernel Device Management
- udev features
- udev rule configuration
- I/O scheduler
Device mapper and multipathing
- Mapping targets
- Multipath device configuration
Red Hat Cluster Suite overview
- Design and elements of clustering
- Cluster configuration tools
Logical Volume Management
- LVM review
- Setting up clusered logical volumes
Global File System (GFS) 2
- Implementation and configuration
- Lock management
- Planning for and growing online GFS
- Monitoring tools
- Journal configuration and management
Quorum and the cluster manager
- Intracluster communication
- Cluster tools
Fencing and failover
- Fencing components
- Failover domains
Quorum disk
- Heuristic configuration
Resource Group Manager (rgmanager)
- Resource groups and recovery
- Hierarchical resource ordering
- High-availability services