HPE Performance Cluster Management Administration Training

• H8PE8S: HPE Performance Cluster Management Foundations

• The following Linux system administration

skills are prerequisites for this course:

– Edit text with the vi editor

– Recognize regular expression syntax

– Access documentation with man and info file viewers

– Monitor, manage and maintain log files

– Enter common commands at the bash command line; create and interpret basic bash shell scripts

– Install and configure standard software components, services and security features – Configure basic communication protocols that support networked communications

– Create and modify crontabs

– Monitor resources usage; be familiar with basic monitoring tools

– Install and configure a Linux distribution on a server

– Create, modify, and delete user accounts and group accounts

– Partition disks, manage filesystems and logical volumes

– Use RPM package management

– Install and use virtualized systems

– Understand basic hardware and hardware troubleshooting

Module 1: Install Cluster

• Describe HPCM features

• Define operating system slots

• Build cluster from ground up

• Provision node with GUI

• Provision node with command line

• Add nodes to the cluster

• Explore auto installation tools

Module 2: Discover

• Discover nodes

• Interpret cluster configuration files

• Review cluster services

Module 3: Data Networks

• Describe technologies

• Describe InfiniBand configuration

• Describe Intel Omni-Path configuration

• Describe software components

• Use diagnostic commands

Module 4: Manage Images

• Manage software repositories

• List software repositories

• Add software repositories

• Remove software repositories

• Create repository groups

• Customize an image by using RPM lists

• Create a compute node image

• Create an ICE-compute node image

• Manage image version control

• Check in an image into version control

• Compare differences between two versions of an image

• List the versions of an image

• Deploy a specific version of an image

• Push an ICE-compute image to a rack

• Use parallel tools and inbuilt functionality to check differences between nodes

• Enable hyperthreading

• Disable hyperthreading

• Configure array services

• Install batch scheduler server on a compute node

• Install batch scheduler client on a compute node and in ICE compute node

• Configure HPCM connectors to job schedulers

• Capture an image from a node (golden)

• Add RPMs to, remove RPMs from, and version control compute images

• Add and remove RPMs from running compute nodes

• Clone an ICE-compute image

• Clean up old images on the lead node

• Add RPMs to ICE compute image Compare when and when not to use tmpfs root

• Determine which nodes use tmpfs root

• Configure nodes to use tmpfs root

• List tmpfs quota difference (rack leader quotas do not apply when ICE-compute nodes are in tmpfs)

• Set tmpfs mode

• Set disk mode

• Show which mode a node has booted with

• Show which mode a node is scheduled to boot into

• Perform a clone operating system slot operation

Module 5: Automate Post Installation Tasks

• Review conf.d scripts

• Exclude a conf.d script

• Use pre_reconf.sh

• Use reconfig.sh

• Develop post install and per-host customization scripts

Module 6: Configure Shared Filesystem, User Accounts, Applications, and Updates

• NFS Export a filesystem on a compute node

• Mount an NFS filesystem and create a user on an ICE compute node

• Manage user accounts

• Synchronize UIDs and GIDs, LDAP, etc.

• Run an application on compute and ICE compute nodes

• Display BIOS settings

• Upgrade firmware

• Update kernel

• Update distribution

• Update HPCM