RH436 - Red Hat Enterprise Storage Management

Course Summary

RH436 Red Hat Enterprise Storage Management provides intensive hands-on experience with the emerging Shared Storage technology delivered by Red Hat Global File System™ (GFS). This 4-day course focuses on the implementation of native Red Hat Enterprise Linux technologies included in Cluster Suite and GFS. RH436 has a strong emphasis on hands-on lab activities using enterprise-class storage, server, and auxiliary equipment. The final day of class is entirely given over to additional lab time so that course participants have ample time to practice Cluster Suite and GFS skills in a realistic environment before returning to production systems.

RH436 Red Hat Enterprise Storage Management Description

Goal:

RH436 is designed to train people with RHCE level competency on skills required to deploy and manage highly available storage data to the mission-critical enterprise computing environment. Complementing skills gained in RH401, this course delivers extensive hands-on training with the cluster file system, GFS.

Audience:

RH436 is aimed at senior Red Hat Enterprise Linux system administrators and other IT professionals working in enterprise environments and mission-critical systems.

Prerequisites:

Participants in RH436 should already be familiar with Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Recommended minimum competency level is completion of the RHCE or equivalent knowledge.

Duration:

4 days

What you will learn:

  1. Review Red Hat Enterprise Linux Storage Management Technologies
  2. Data Storage Design: Data Sharing
    • Analyze Storage Dynamics
    • SNIA Shared Storage Model(SSM)
    • Volume Management + File System Management = Data Management
  3. Cluster Suite Overview
    • Define Cluster Suite Implementation in the SSM
    • Explain Cluster Suite Configuration
    • Implement Cluster Suite; HA NFS
  4. Global File System(GFS) Overview
    • Define GFS Implementation in the SSM
    • Explain GFS Configuration
    • Explain Pools and Distributed Storage
    • Introduce Fencing
    • Explain Fencing Procedures
    • Implement Fencing Methods
  5. Describe GFS Management
    • Describe GFS journals
    • Explain GFS Modification
    • Single/Redundant GFS Lockmanagers(SLM/RLM)
    • Increasing Data Storage Capacity
  6. Modify the On-line GFS Environment: Managing Data Capacity
  7. Monitor GFS
  8. Implement GFS modifications
  9. Migrating Cluster Suite NFS from DAS to GFS
  10. Re-visit Cluster Suite using GFS