RH436-Bundle: Red Hat Enterprise Clustering and Storage Management + EX436

Course Overview

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 Objectives

• 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
  

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 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 Datacenter 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