Course outline — RH436

Manage Red Hat Enterprise Linux deployments

  1. Review Red Hat® enterprise clustering and storage management technologies

  2. Storage Technologies

    • Storage Requirements

    • NAS vs SAN

  3. iSCSI

    • iSCSI as a shared storage device

    • Configuring an iSCSI initiator

    • Configuring an iSCSI target

    • Authentication

  4. Kernel Device Management

    • udev Features

    • udev Rule Configuration

    • I/O Scheduler

  5. Device mapper and multipathing

    • Mapping targets

    • Multipath device configuration

  6. Red Hat Cluster suite overview

    • Design and elements of clustering

    • Cluster configuration tools

  7. Logical Volume Management

    • LVM Review

    • Setting up Clustered Logical Volumes

  8. Global File System (GFS) 2 (MOVED UP)

    • Implementation and configuration

    • Lock management

    • Planning for and growing on-line GFS

    • Monitoring tools

    • Journal configuration and management

  9. Quorum and the cluster manager

    • Intracluster communication

    • Cluster tools

  10. Fencing and failover

    • Fencing components

    • Failover domains

  11. Quorum disk

    • Heuristic configuration

  12. Resource Group Manager (rgmanager)

    • Resource groups and recovery

    • Hierarchical resource ordering

    • High availability services