COURSE OBJECTIVE:
At the conclusion of this course, you should be
able to: • Install HPCM • Add servers to the cluster • Manage data networks • Provision nodes • Create and modify images and software
repositories • Use image version control • Automate post installation tasks • Configure shared filesystem, user accounts,
applications and updates • Troubleshoot cluster services • Review cluster security features
TARGET AUDIENCE:
• Attend this class if you need to learn to
install, configure and administer clusters
managed with the HPE Performance Cluster
Manager (HPCM) • Experienced Linux system administrators
COURSE PREREQUISITES:
H8PE8S: HPE Performance Cluster
Management Foundations
• The following Linux system administration
skills are prerequisites for this course:
– Edit text with the vi editor
– Recognize regular expression syntax
– Access documentation with man and info file
viewers
– Monitor, manage and maintain log files
– Enter common commands at the bash
command line; create and interpret basic
bash shell scripts
– Install and configure standard software
components, services and security features
– Configure basic communication protocols
– Create and modify crontabs
– Monitor resources usage; be familiar with
basic monitoring tools
– Install and configure a Linux distribution on
a server
– Create, modify, and delete user accounts
and group accounts
– Partition disks, manage filesystems and
logical volumes
– Use RPM package management
– Install and use virtualized systems
– Understand basic hardware and hardware
troubleshooting
COURSE CONTENT:
Module 1: Install Cluster
• Describe HPCM features
• Define operating system slots
• Build cluster from ground up
• Provision node with GUI
• Provision node with command line
• Add nodes to the cluster
• Explore auto installation tools
Module 2: Discover
• Discover nodes
• Interpret cluster configuration files
• Review cluster services
Module 3: Data Networks
• Describe technologies
• Describe InfiniBand configuration
• Describe Intel Omni-Path configuration
• Describe software components
• Use diagnostic commands
Module 4: Manage Images
• Manage software repositories
• List software repositories
• Add software repositories
• Remove software repositories
• Create repository groups
• Customize an image by using RPM lists
• Create a compute node image
• Create an ICE-compute node image
• Manage image version control
• Check in an image into version control
• Compare differences between two versions of an
image
• List the versions of an image
• Deploy a specific version of an image
• Push an ICE-compute image to a rack
• Use parallel tools and inbuilt functionality to check
differences between nodes
• Enable hyperthreading
• Disable hyperthreading
• Configure array services
• Install batch scheduler server on a compute node
• Install batch scheduler client on a compute node and in
ICE compute node
• Configure HPCM connectors to job schedulers
• Capture an image from a node (golden)
• Add RPMs to, remove RPMs from, and version control
compute images
• Add and remove RPMs from running compute nodes
• Clone an ICE-compute image
• Clean up old images on the lead node
• Add RPMs to ICE compute image Compare when and
when not to use tmpfs root
• Determine which nodes use tmpfs root
• Configure nodes to use tmpfs root
• List tmpfs quota difference (rack leader quotas do not
apply when ICE-compute nodes are in tmpfs)
• Set tmpfs mode
• Set disk mode
• Show which mode a node has booted with
• Show which mode a node is scheduled to boot into
• Perform a clone operating system slot operation
Module 5: Automate Post Installation Tasks • Review conf.d
scripts
• Exclude a conf.d script
• Use pre_reconf.sh
• Use reconfig.sh
• Develop post install and per-host customization scripts
Module 6: Configure Shared Filesystem, User Accounts,
Applications, and Updates
• NFS Export a filesystem on a compute node
• Mount an NFS filesystem and create a user on an ICE
compute node
• Manage user accounts
• Synchronize UIDs and GIDs, LDAP, etc.
• Run an application on compute and ICE compute
nodes
• Display BIOS settings
• Upgrade firmware
• Update kernel
• Update distribution
• Update HPCM
Module 7: Troubleshoot Cluster • Backup cluster
configuration
• Backup managed network switch configuration
• Use the central log repository
• Investigate log files
• Gather system information
• Interrogate iLOs, BMCs
• Confirm resources
• Create pdsh groups
• Investigate bond devices
• Inspect VLAN devices
• Capture a node crash dump
• Transfer an image from another slot or another system
and confirm that the image can be used.
• Inject faults
Module 8: Review Cluster Security
• Describe system administrator configurable security
tasks
• Describe what makes cluster security different from
standalone security (how would change X break the
cluster)
• List ports used for each node role and for which
interfaces
• List components with passwords
– Admin node
– Flat compute nodes
– Rack leader nodes
– ICE compute nodes
– BMCs
– CMCs
– Ethernet network switches
– InfiniBand and Omni-Path switches
– IB/OPA switch BMCs
– Storage controllers
• List components that can have passwords applied
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