RH437 Red Hat High Availability Clustering With Exam
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).
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
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. SANiSCSI • iSCSI as a shared storage device • Configuring an iSCSI initiator • Configuring an iSCSI target • AuthenticationKernel Device Management • udev features • udev rule configuration • I/O schedulerDevice mapper and multipathing • Mapping targets • Multipath device configurationRed Hat Cluster Suite overview • Design and elements of clustering • Cluster configuration toolsLogical Volume Management • LVM review • Setting up clusered logical volumesGlobal File System (GFS) 2 • Implementation and configuration • Lock management • Planning for and growing online GFS • Monitoring tools • Journal configuration and managementQuorum and the cluster manager • Intracluster communication • Cluster toolsFencing and failover • Fencing components • Failover domainsQuorum disk • Heuristic configurationResource Group Manager (rgmanager) • Resource groups and recovery • Hierarchical resource ordering • High-availability services
FOLLOW ON COURSES:
RH401, Red Hat Enterprise Deployment and Systems Management RHS333, Red Hat Enterprise Security Network Services RH442, Red Hat Enterprise Performance Tuning
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