About this course
Course Overview
Red Hat® Enterprise Clustering and Storage Management (RH436) 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.
Target Audience
Experienced Linux system administrators responsible for managing shared storage across one or more Linux systems and Experienced Linux system administrators responsible for maintaining a high availability service using cluster technology.
Course Objectives
- Review of Red Hat enterprise clustering and storage management technologies
- Linux dynamic device management
- iSCSI
- Advanced software RAID
- Device mapper and multipathing
Course Content
1.Review Red Hat® enterprise clustering and storage management technologies
2.Storage Technologies
- Storage Requirements
- NAS vs SAN
3.iSCSI
- iSCSI as a shared storage device
- Configuring an iSCSI initiator
- Configuring an iSCSI target
- Authentication
4.Kernel Device Management
- udev Features
- udev Rule Configuration
- I/O Scheduler
5.Device mapper and multipathing
- Mapping targets
- Multipath device configuration
6.Red Hat Cluster suite overview
- Design and elements of clustering
- Cluster configuration tools
7.Logical Volume Management
- LVM Review
- Setting up Clustered Logical Volumes
8.Global File System (GFS) 2 (MOVED UP)
- Implementation and configuration
- Lock management
- Planning for and growing on-line GFS
- Monitoring tools
- Journal configuration and management
9.Quorum and the cluster manager
- Intracluster communication
- Cluster tools
10.Fencing and failover
- Fencing components
- Failover domains
11.Quorum disk
- Heuristic configuration
12.Resource Group Manager (rgmanager)
- Resource groups and recovery
- Hierarchical resource ordering
- High availability services
Course Prerequisites
- RHCE certification or equivalent experience
Test Certification
- Red Hat Enterprise Clustering and Storage Management Expertise Exam(EX436) Hands-on, performance-based, 4-hour exam.
- This course prepares you for these credentials:
- Red Hat Certified Architect — RHCA
- Red Hat Certified Security Specialist — RHCDS
- Certificates of Expertise
Follow on Courses
- RH401, Red Hat Enterprise Deployment and Systems Management
- RHS333, Red Hat Enterprise Security Network Services
- RH442, Red Hat Enterprise Performance Tuning
