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Red Hat High Availability Clustering with (EX436) Exam

  • Course Code RH437
  • Duration 5 days

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Course Overview

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Red Hat® Enterprise Clustering and Storage Management with Exam (RH437) provides intensive, hands-on experience with storage management, Red Hat Cluster Suite, and the shared storage technology delivered by Red Hat Global File System (GFS). Created for senior Linux® system administrators, this 4-day course has a strong emphasis on lab-based activities. At the end of the course, students will have learned to deploy and manage shared storage and server clusters that provide highly available network services to a mission-critical enterprise environment.
A Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE®) who successfully completes this course is prepared to take the Red Hat Enterprise Clustering and Storage Management Expertise Exam (EX436).

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Target Audience

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An experienced Linux system administrator responsible for managing shared storage across 1 or more Linux systems, an experienced Linux system administrator responsible for maintaining a high-availability service using cluster technology, an RHCE interested in earning a Red Hat Certificate of Expertise, a Red Hat Certified Datacenter Specialist (RHCDS) or a Red Hat Certified Architect (RHCA) credential.

Course Objectives

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  • Setup and management of high-availability clustered services with Red Hat Cluster Suite
  • Providing iSCSI targets with Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  • Customization and control of device files with udev
  • Storage I/O multipath with device mapper
  • Using cluster Logical Volume Management (LVM)
  • Configuration and use of the Red Hat Global File System cluster file system for shared storage

Course Content

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Storage technologies

  • Storage Requirements
  • NAS vs. SAN

iSCSI

  • iSCSI as a shared storage device
  • Configuring an iSCSI initiator
  • Configuring an iSCSI target
  • Authentication

Kernel Device Management

  • udev features
  • udev rule configuration
  • I/O scheduler

Device mapper and multipathing

  • Mapping targets
  • Multipath device configuration

Red Hat Cluster Suite overview

  • Design and elements of clustering
  • Cluster configuration tools

Logical Volume Management

  • LVM review
  • Setting up clusered logical volumes

Global File System (GFS) 2

  • Implementation and configuration
  • Lock management
  • Planning for and growing online GFS
  • Monitoring tools
  • Journal configuration and management

Quorum and the cluster manager

  • Intracluster communication
  • Cluster tools

Fencing and failover

  • Fencing components
  • Failover domains

Quorum disk

  • Heuristic configuration

Resource Group Manager (rgmanager)

  • Resource groups and recovery
  • Hierarchical resource ordering
  • High-availability services

Course Prerequisites

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  • RHCE certification or equivalent experience

Test Certification

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  • Red Hat Enterprise Clustering and Storage Management Expertise Exam (EX436) Hands-on, performance-based, 4-hour exam.
  • This course prepares you for these credentials:
  • Red Hat Certified Architect — RHCA
  • Red Hat Certified Datacenter Specialist — RHCDS
  • Certificates of Expertise

Follow on Courses

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  • RH401, Red Hat Enterprise Deployment and Systems Management
  • RHS333, Red Hat Enterprise Security Network Services
  • RH442, Red Hat Enterprise Performance Tuning
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