RH436 - Red Hat High Availability Clustering

Course Overview

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 Certified Specialist in High Availability Clustering exam (EX436).

Content summary

Install and configure a Pacemaker-based high availability cluster
Create and manage highly available services
Troubleshoot common cluster issues
Work with shared storage (iSCSI) and configure multipathing
Configure GFS2 file systems

Audience for this course

Senior Linux system administrators responsible for maximizing resiliency through high-availability clustering services and using fault-tolerant shared storage technologies

Prerequisites 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.

Outline for this course

Clusters and storage

Get an overview of storage and cluster technologies.

Create high-availability clusters

Review and create the architecture of Pacemaker-based high-availability clusters.

Nodes and quorum

Review cluster node membership and how quorum is used to control clusters.

Fencing

Understand fencing and fencing configuration.

Resource groups

Create and configure simple resource groups to provide high-availability services to clients.

Troubleshoot high-availability clusters

Identify and troubleshoot cluster problems.

Complex resource groups

Control complex resource groups by using constraints.

Two-node clusters

Identify and work around two-node clusters issues.

ISCSI initiators

Manage iSCSI initiators for access to shared storage.

Multipath Storage

Configure redundant storage access.

Logical volume manager (LVM) clusters

Manage clustered LV.

Global File System 2

Create symmetric shared file systems.

Eliminate single points of failure

Eliminate single points of failure to increase service availability.

Comprehensive review

Set up high-availability services and storage.