Detailed Course Outline
Unit 1 - Review Red Hat Enterprise Clustering and Storage Management Technologies
Unit 2 - Linux Dynamic Device Management
- udev Features
- udev Rule Configuration
Unit 3 - iSCSI
- iSCSI as a Shared Storage Device
- Configuring an iSCSI initiator
- Configuring an iSCSI target
- Authentication
Unit 4 - Advanced Software RAID
- Types and Differences
- Monitoring
- Optimization Techniques
- Growth and High Availability
Unit 5 - Device Mapper and Multipathing
- Mapping Targets
- LVM2 Snapshots
- Multipath Device Configuration
Unit 6 - Cluster Technology
- Common Cluster Hardware
- Shared Storage Alternatives
Unit 7 - Cluster Suite Overview
- Design and Elements of Clustering
- Cluster Configuration Tools
- Clustered Logical Volumes and Lock Management
Unit 8 - Quorum and the Cluster Manager
- Intracluster Communication
- Cluster Tools
Unit 9 - Fencing and Failover
- Fencing Components
- Failover Domains
Unit 10 - Quorum Disk
- Heuristic Configuration
Unit 11 - Service Manager
- Resource Groups and Recovery
- Hierarchical Resource Ordering
- High Availability Services
Unit 12 - Global File System (GFS)
- Implementation and Configuration
- Lock Management
- Planning For and Growing On-line GFS
- Monitoring Tools
- Journal Configuration and Management