In this course, you will gain 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 course has a strong emphasis on lab-based activities. You will learn to deploy and manage shared storage and server clusters that provide highly available network services to a mission-critical enterprise environment.

Certification:

Upon passing the exam, you'll receive a Certificate of Expertise for Clustering Storage Management. This exam is one out of three needed to earn Red Hat Certified Data Center Specialist (RHCDS) certification and one out of five exams needed to earn Red Hat Certified Architect (RHCA) certification.

What You'll Learn

• Red Hat enterprise clustering and storage management technologies
• Linux dynamic device management
• iSCSI
• Advanced software RAID
• Device mapper and multipathing

Who Needs to Attend

RHCEs who want to prepare for and take the Clustering Storage Management Certificate of Expertise exam. If you are not an RHCE, you should enroll in RH436, a four-day course that does not include the exam.

Prerequisites

You must be a current RHCE to take this course and exam

Follow-On Courses

• Red HatŪ Enterprise Deployment and System Management with EX401 (RH402)
• Red HatŪ Enterprise Performance Tuning with Exam (RH443)
• Red HatŪ Enterprise Directory Services with Exam (RH424)

Course Outline

1. Storage Technologies

• Storage Requirements
• NAS vs. SAN

2. iSCSI

• iSCSI as a shared storage device
• Configuring an iSCSI initiator
• Configuring an iSCSI target
• Authentication

3. Kernel Device Management

• udev Features
• udev Rule Configuration
• I/O Scheduler

4. Device Mapper and Multipathing

• Mapping targets
• Multipath device configuration

5. Red Hat Cluster Suite

• Design and elements of clustering
• Cluster configuration tools

6. Logical Volume Management

• LVM Review
• Setting up Clustered Logical Volumes

7. Global File System (GFS) 2

• Implementation and configuration
• Lock management
• Planning for and growing on-line GFS
• Monitoring tools
• Journal configuration and 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. Resource Group Manager (rgmanager)

• Resource groups and recovery
• Hierarchical resource ordering
• High availability services