RH436 Red Hat Enterprise Clustering and Storage Management 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). This 4-day course has a strong emphasis on hands-on lab activities using enterprise-class storage, server, and auxiliary equipment. A portion of the final day of class is entirely given over to additional lab time so that course participants have ample time to practice Cluster Suite and GFS skills in a realistic environment before returning to production systems.

Course Outline

1. Review Red Hat Enterprise Clustering and Storage Management Technologies

2. Linux Dynamic Device Management

• * udev Features
• * udev Rule Configuration

 
3. iSCSI

• iSCSI as a Shared Storage Device
• Configuring an iSCSI initiator
• Authentication

4. Advanced Software RAID

• Types and Differences
• Monitoring
• Optimization Techniques
• Growth and High Availability

 
5. Device Mapper and Multipathing

• Mapping Targets
• LVM2 Snapshots
• Multipath Device Configuration

 
6. Cluster Technology

• Common Cluster Hardware
• Shared Storage Alternatives

 
7. Cluster Suite Overview

• Design and Elements of Clustering
• Cluster Configuration Tools
• Clustered Logical Volumes and Lock Management

 
8. Quorum and the Cluster Manager

• Intracluster Communication
• Cluster Tools

 
9. Fencing and Failover

• Fencing Components
• Failover Domains

 
10. Quorum Disk

• Heuristic Configuration

 
11. Service Manager

• Resource Groups and Recovery
• Hierarchical Resource Ordering
• High Availability Services

 
12. Global File System (GFS)

• Implementation and Configuration
• Lock Management
• Planning For and Growing On-line GFS
• Monitoring Tools
• Journal Configuration and Management

Duration
4 days from 9AM to 5PM

Location
Housing Co. d.o.o., Vodovodna 100, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia

Special offer (for croatian customers only)
- includes hotel accomodation
- includes transport Zagreb – Ljubljana and Ljubljana – Zagreb
- includes lunch

Price
3.400 EUR + VAT

Date
16.08.2010. - 19.08.2010.

Goal

RH436 is designed to train people with RHCE level competency on skills required to deploy and manage highly available storage data to the mission-critical enterprise computing environment. Complementing skills gained in RH401, this course delivers extensive hands-on training with storage management, Red Hat Cluster Suite, and the shared file system, GFS.

Prerequisites

Participants in RH436 should already be familiar with Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Recommended minimum competency level is completion of the RHCE or equivalent knowledge.

Audience

RH436 is aimed at senior Red Hat Enterprise Linux system administrators and other IT professionals working in enterprise environments and mission-critical systems.

Prepares for

EX436 Red Hat Enterprise Clustering and Storage Management Expertise Exam.

Volume discounts

If your company needs to train more than one employee at the same time, take advantage of our multi-student discounts.

Contact

Dragutin Zivkovic
Housing d.o.o.
Zaharova 7, 10000 Zagreb
T: +385 1 4878999
F: +385 1 4878998
e-mail: dragutin.zivkovic@housing.hr