RH436 - Red Hat Enterprise Clustering and Storage Management

  • Price (excl. VAT): 3430 EUR   2295 GBP
  • Training Units: 14
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  • Training Units:
  • Duration: 4 days
  • First day: 09:30 - 17:00
  • All other days: 09:00 - 17:00

Course Summary

RH436 Red Hat Enterprise Clustering and Storage Management 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). This 4-day course has a strong emphasis on hands-on lab activities using enterprise-class storage, server, and auxiliary equipment. A portion of the final day of class is entirely given over to additional lab time so that course participants have ample time to practice Cluster Suite and GFS skills in a realistic environment before returning to production systems.

RH436 Red Hat Enterprise Clustering and Storage Management Description

Goal:

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.

Audience:

RH436 is aimed at senior Red Hat Enterprise Linux system administrators and other IT professionals working in enterprise environments and mission-critical systems.

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.

Duration:

4 days
Training Start Time: 9:00 a.m.
Training End Time: 4:00-5:00PM (depending on class progress)
Note: A portion of day 4 is dedicated to open lab practice time to use the lab´s cluster and shared storage before returning to production servers.

What you will learn:

  1. Review Red Hat Enterprise Clustering and Storage Management Technologies
  2. Linux Dynamic Device Management
    • udev Features
    • udev Rule Configuration
  3. iSCSI
    • iSCSI as a Shared Storage Device
    • Configuring an iSCSI initiator
    • Authentication
  4. Advanced Software RAID
    • Types and Differences
    • Monitoring
    • Optimization Techniques
    • Growth and High Availability
  5. Device Mapper and Multipathing
    • Mapping Targets
    • LVM2 Snapshots
    • Multipath Device Configuration
  6. Cluster Technology
    • Common Cluster Hardware
    • Shared Storage Alternatives
  7. Cluster Suite Overview
    • Design and Elements of Clustering
    • Cluster Configuration Tools
    • Clustered Logical Volumes and Lock Management
  8. Quorum and the Cluster Manager
    • Intracluster Communication
    • Cluster Tools
  9. Fencing and Failover
    • Fencing Components
    • Failover Domains
  10. Quorum Disk
    • Heuristic Configuration
  11. Service Manager
    • Resource Groups and Recovery
    • Hierarchical Resource Ordering
    • High Availability Services
  12. Global File System (GFS)
    • Implementation and Configuration
    • Lock Management
    • Planning For and Growing On-line GFS
    • Monitoring Tools
    • Journal Configuration and Management