Duration
4 days
Course Description
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.
This course also helps you prepare for the Red Hat Certificate of Expertise in High Availability Clustering exam (EX436).
Content summary
- Install and configure a Pacemaker-based high availability cluster
- Create and manage highly available services
- Troubleshoot common cluster issues
- Work with shared storage (iSCSI) and configure multipathing
- Configure GFS2 file systems
Audience:
Senior Linux system administrators responsible for maximizing resiliency though high-availability clustering services and using fault-tolerant shared storage technologies
Prerequisites:
RHCE® certification
Course Outline
Clusters and storage
Get an overview of storage and cluster technologies.
Create high-availability clusters.
Review and create the architecture of Pacemaker-based high-availability clusters.
Nodes and quorum
Review cluster node membership and how quorum is used to control clusters.
Fencing
Understand fencing and fencing configuration.
Resource groups
Create and configure simple resource groups to provide high-availability services to clients.
Troubleshoot high-availability clusters
Identify and troubleshoot cluster problems.
Complex resource groups
Control complex resource groups by using constraints.
Two-node clusters
Identify and work around two-node clusters issues.
ISCSI initiators
Manage iSCSI initiators for access to shared storage.
Multipath Storage
Configure redundant storage access.
Logical volume manager (LVM) clusters
Manage clustered LV.
Global File System 2
Create symmetric shared file systems.
Eliminate single points of failure
Eliminate single points of failure to increase service availability.
Comprehensive review
Set up high-availability services and storage.
Note: Course outline is subject to change with technology advances and as the nature of the underlying job evolves.
Recommended next exam or course
Red Hat Certificate of Expertise in High Availability Clustering exam (EX436)
Hands-on, performance-based, 4-hour exam.
Red Hat Enterprise Deployment and Systems Management (RH401)
Equips senior administrators for large-scale deployment and management of Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems, including Red Hat Network Satellite Server.
Red Hat Enterprise Performance Tuning (RH442)
Gives senior administrators methodology and experience with performance tuning and capacity planning for Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
This is a version-specific reference outline. Confirm the current syllabus and delivery arrangements with EIEIO.