RH 436

(Investment of Time: 32 hours)

Red Hat Enterprise Clustering and Storage Management (RH436) provides intensive, hands-on experience with storage management, Red Hat Cluster Suite, and the shared storage technology delivered by Red Hat Global File System™ (GFS). Created for Senior Linux system administrators, this 4-day course has a strong emphasis on lab-based activities .

Strongly recommended for experienced Linux system administrators responsible for managing shared storage across one or more Linux systems or Linux system administrators responsible for maintaining a high availability service using cluster technology.

Course Outline:

Review Red Hat Enterprise clustering and storage management technologies

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 Clustered Logical Volumes

Global File System (GFS) 2

Implementation and configuration | Lock management | Planning for and growing on-line 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