RH436 Red Hat Enterprise Storage Management With Exam

Revision: TE1508_20060318

Course Length:

5 Days

Course Description:

Red Hat Enterprise 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:

RH436 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 RH436 should already be familiar with Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Recommended minimum competency level is completion of the RHCE or equivalent knowledge.

Course Outline:

• Chapter 1: Review Red Hat Enterprise Linux Storage Management Technologies
• Chapter 2: Data Storage Design: Data Sharing
  1. Analyze Storage Dynamics
  2. SNIA Shared Storage Model(SSM)
  3. Volume Management + File System Management = Data Management
• Chapter 3: Cluster Suite Overview
  1. Define Cluster Suite Implementation in the SSM
  2. Explain Cluster Suite Configuration
  3. Implement Cluster Suite; HA NFS
• Chapter 4: Global File System(GFS) Overview
  1. Define GFS Implementation in the SSM
  2. Explain GFS Configuration
  3. Explain Pools and Distributed Storage
  4. Introduce Fencing
  5. Explain Fencing Procedures
  6. Implement Fencing Methods
• Chapter 5: Describe GFS Management
  1. Describe GFS journals
  2. Explain GFS Modification
  3. Single/Redundant GFS Lockmanagers(SLM/RLM)
  4. Increasing Data Storage Capacity
• Chapter 6: Modify The On-line GFS Environment: Managing Data Capacity
• Chapter 7: Monitor GFS
• Chapter 8: Implement GFS Modifications
• Chapter 9: Migrating Cluster Suite NFS From DAS To GFS
• Chapter 10: Re-visit Cluster Suite Using GFS