Red Hat® Enterprise Clustering and Storage Management with Exam (RH437) 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. At the end of the course, students will have learned to deploy and manage shared storage and server clusters that provide highly available network services to a mission-critical enterprise environment.
A Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE®) who successfully completes this course is prepared to take the Red Hat Enterprise Clustering and Storage Management Expertise Exam (EX436).
TARGET 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.
COURSE PREREQUISITES:
• RHCE certification or equivalent experience
COURSE CONTENT:
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
COURSE OBJECTIVE:
• Setup and management of high-availability clustered services with Red Hat Cluster Suite
• Providing iSCSI targets with Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• Customization and control of device files with udev
• Storage I/O multipath with device mapper
• Using cluster Logical Volume Management (LVM)
• Configuration and use of the Red Hat Global File System cluster file system for shared storage
FOLLOW ON COURSES:
RH401, Red Hat Enterprise Deployment and Systems Management
RHS333, Red Hat Enterprise Security Network Services
RH442, Red Hat Enterprise Performance Tuning