Design and deploy a high availability cluster
The intensive, hands-on Red Hat® High Availability Clustering (RH436) course teaches storage management, the Red Hat High Availability Add-On, and the shared storage technology delivered by Red Hat Global File System 2 (GFS2) and Red Hat Gluster Storage.
Created for senior Linux® system administrators, this 4-day course strongly emphasizes lab-based activities. You'll learn how to deploy and manage shared storage and server clusters that provide highly available network services to a mission-critical enterprise environment.
This course also helps you prepare for the Red Hat Certificate of Expertise in High Availability Clustering exam (EX436).
Audience for this course
If you want to take this course without the exam (RH436) and have not earned your RHCE® certification, you can confirm that you have the necessary knowledge by passing the online skills assessment.
Content summary
Impact on the organization
This course is intended to develop the skills needed to produce highly available, more resilient, mission critical applications, resulting in reduced downtime and easier hardware maintenance.
Red Hat has created this course in a way intended to benefit our customers, but each company and infrastructure is unique, and actual results or benefits may vary.
Impact on the individual
As a result of attending this course, students should be able to create, manage, and troubleshoot highly available network services and tightly-coupled cluster storage for business-critical applications.
Students should be able to demonstrate the following skills:
Clusters and storage
Get an overview of storage and cluster technologies.
ISCSI configuration
Set up and manage iSCSI.
UDEV
Learn basic manipulation and creation of udev rules.
Multipathing
Combine multiple paths to SAN devices into one fault-tolerant virtual device.
Red Hat high-availability overview
Learn the architecture and component technologies in the Red Hat® High Availability Add-On.
Quorum
Understand quorum and quorum calculations.
Fencing
Understand Fencing and fencing configuration.
Resources and resource groups
Understand rgmanager and the configuration of resources and resource groups.
Advanced resource management
Understand resource dependencies and complex resources.
Two-node cluster issues
Understand the use and limitations of 2-node clusters.
LVM management
Review LVM commands and Clustered LVM (clvm).
Global File System
Understand the GFS2 file system and use tools to create, maintain, and troubleshoot it.
XFS
Explore the Features of the XFS® file system and tools required for creating, maintaining, and troubleshooting.
Red Hat Storage
Work with Gluster to create and maintain a scale-out storage solution.
Comprehensive review
Set up high-availability services and storage.