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Course Length:
5 Days
Course Description:
Red Hat Enterprise Clustering and Storage Management provides intensive hands-on experience with the emerging Shared Storage technology delivered by Red Hat Global File System™ (GFS). This 4-day course focuses on the implementation of native Red Hat Enterprise Linux technologies included in Cluster Suite and GFS. An exam is administered on the final day of class.
Who Should Attend:
RH437 is aimed at senior Red Hat Enterprise Linux system administrators and other IT professionals working in enterprise environments and mission-critical systems.
Benefits of Attendance:
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
  • Deploy and manage highly available storage data to the mission-critical enterprise computing environment.
Prerequisites:
Participants in RH437 should already be familiar with Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Recommended minimum competency level is completion of the RHCE or equivalent knowledge.
Course Outline:
  • Review Red Hat Enterprise Clustering and Storage Management Technologies
  • Linux Dynamic Device Management
    1. udev Features
    2. udev Rule Configuration
  • iSCSI
    1. iSCSI as a Shared Storage Device
    2. Configuring an iSCSI initiator
    3. Configuring an iSCSI target
    4. Authentication
  • Advanced Software RAID
    1. Types and Differences
    2. Monitoring
    3. Optimization Techniques
    4. Growth and High Availability
  • Device Mapper and Multipathing
    1. Mapping Targets
    2. LVM2 Snapshots
    3. Multipath Device Configuration
  • Cluster Technology
    1. Common Cluster Hardware
    2. Shared Storage Alternatives
  • Cluster Suite Overview
    1. Design and Elements of Clustering
    2. Cluster Configuration Tools
    3. Clustered Logical Volumes and Lock Management
  • Quorum and the Cluster Manager
    1. Intracluster Communication
    2. Cluster Tools
  • Fencing and Failover
    1. Fencing Components
    2. Failover Domains
  • Quorum Disk
    1. Heuristic Configuration
  • Service Manager
    1. Resource Groups and Recovery
    2. Hierarchical Resource Ordering
    3. High Availability Services
  • Global File System (GFS)
    1. Implementation and Configuration
    2. Lock Management
    3. Planning For and Growing On-line GFS
    4. Monitoring Tools
    5. Journal Configuration and Management