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Overview

Design and deploy a high availability cluster

Red Hat High Availability Clustering (RH436) provides intensive, hands-on experience with the Pacemaker component of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux High-Availability Add-On, as well as cluster storage components from the Resilient Storage Add-On, including Cluster Logical Volume Manager (CLVM), Red Hat Global File System 2 (GFS2), and Device-Mapper Multipath.

This course is based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1.

Created for senior Linux system administrators, this 4-day course strongly emphasizes lab-based activities. You'll learn how to deploy and manage shared storage and server clusters that provide highly available network services to a mission-critical enterprise environment.

Audience

An experienced Linux system administrator responsible for managing shared storage across 1 or more Linux systems, an experienced Linux system administrator responsible for maintaining a high-availability service using cluster technology, an RHCE interested in earning a Red Hat Certificate of Expertise, a Red Hat Certified Datacenter Specialist (RHCDS) or a Red Hat Certified Architect (RHCA) credential.

Skills Gained

As a result of attending this course, students should be able to create, manage, and troubleshoot highly available network services and tightly-coupled cluster storage for business-critical applications.

Students should be able to demonstrate the following skills:

  • Improve application uptime by using high availability clustering
  • Manage storage in an high availability environment using iSCSI initiators, HA-LVM or CLVM as appropriate, and GFS2 cluster file systems
  • Implement strategies to identify single points of failure in high availability clusters and eliminate them

Following completion of this course you will have the knowledge and experience to:

  • Review of Red Hat enterprise clustering and storage management technologies
  • Linux dynamic device management
  • iSCSI
  • Advanced software RAID
  • Device mapper and multipathing

Prerequisites

  • RHCE certification or equivalent experience

Outline

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 clusered logical volumes

Global File System (GFS) 2

  • Implementation and configuration
  • Lock management
  • Planning for and growing online 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

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