Red Hat Enterprise Clustering and Storage Management

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 Description:

RH436 is designed to train people with RHCE level competency on skills required to deploy and manage highly available storage data to the mission-critical enterprise computing environment. Complementing skills gained in RH401, this course delivers extensive hands-on training with storage management, Red Hat Cluster Suite, and the shared file system, GFS.

This course includes the following modules:

Review Red Hat Enterprise Clustering and Storage Management Technologies

Linux Dynamic Device Management

• udev Features
• udev Rule Configuration

iSCSI

• iSCSI as a Shared Storage Device
• Configuring an iSCSI initiator
• Configuring an iSCSI target
• Authentication

Advanced Software RAID

• Types and Differences
• Monitoring
• Optimization Techniques
• Growth and High Availability

Device Mapper and Multipathing

• Mapping Targets
• LVM2 Snapshots
• Multipath Device Configuration

Cluster Technology

• Common Cluster Hardware
• Shared Storage Alternatives

Cluster Suite Overview

• Design and Elements of Clustering
• Cluster Configuration Tools
• Clustered Logical Volumes and Lock Management

Quorum and the Cluster Manager

• Intracluster Communication
• Cluster Tools

Fencing and Failover

• Fencing Components
• Failover Domains

Quorum Disk

• Heuristic Configuration

Service Manager

• Resource Groups and Recovery
• Hierarchical Resource Ordering
• High Availability Services

Global File System (GFS)

• Implementation and Configuration
• Lock Management
• Planning For and Growing On-line GFS
• Monitoring Tools
• Journal Configuration and Management