Course Description

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.

What you will learn:

Course Outline

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

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.

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.

Certification Tracks:

** To be certified as an RHCA students must pass all five exams

Prepares for:

• EX436 Red Hat Enterprise Clustering and Storage Management Expertise Exam

Class times:

• Monday through Thursday
  • Start: 9:00am
  • End: 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.