Skills Gained
Upon completion of this course, students should be able to:- Describe the major Sun Cluster hardware and software components and functions
- Configure different methods of connecting to node consoles
- Configure a cluster administrative workstation
- Install and configure the Sun Cluster 3.2 software
- Configure Sun Cluster 3.2 quorum devices
- Configure VERITAS Volume Manager in the Sun Cluster software environment
- Configure Solaris Volume Manager software in the Sun Cluster software environment
- Create Internet Protocol Multipathing (IPMP) failover groups in the Sun Cluster 3.2 software environment
- Understand resources and resource groups, configure a failover data service resource group (Network File System [NFS]), and resource group (Apache)
- Configure failover between Solaris 10 zones, failover ORACLE, and ORACLE Real Application Clusters (RAC) in the Sun Cluster software environment
Course Content
Module 1 - Introducing Sun Cluster Hardware and Software
- Define the concept of clustering
- Describe the hardware and software environment
- Identify the data service support
- Explore the high availability (HA) framework
- Define global storage services differences
Module 2 - Exploring Node Console Connectivity and the Cluster Console Software
- Access the Node consoles on domain-based servers
- Configure the Sun Cluster console software
- Use the Cluster console tools
Module 3 - Preparing for Installation and Understanding Quorum Devices
- List the Sun Cluster software boot disk requirements and restrictions
- Identify typical cluster storage topologies
- Describe quorum votes and quorum devices
- Configure a quorum server
- Describe persistent quorum reservations and cluster amnesia
- Describe data fencing
- Configure a supported cluster interconnect system
- Identify public network adapters
- Configure shared physical adapters
Module 4 - Installing and Configuring the Sun Cluster Software Framework
- Install the Sun Cluster packages using the Sun Java Enterprise System (Java ES) installer
- Describe the Sun Cluster Framework configuration
- Describe the files and settings that are automatically configured by scinstall
- Perform automatic quorum configuration
- Describe the manual quorum selection
Module 5 - Performing Basic Cluster Administration
- Identify the cluster daemons
- Perform basic cluster startup and shutdown operations
- Describe the Sun Cluster administration utilities
Module 6 - Using VERITAS Volume Manager for Volume Management
- Describe the most important concepts of VERITAS Volume Manager (VxVM)
- Initialize a VERITAS Volume Manager disk
- Install VxVM 5.0 software
- Use basic commands to put disks in disk groups and build volumes
- Register and resynchronize VxVM disk groups with the cluster
Module 7 - Managing Volumes With Solaris Volume Manager
- Describe the most important concepts of Solaris Volume Manager
- Describe Solaris Volume Manager soft partitions
- Explain shared disksets, local disksets and multiowner disksets
- Describe volume database (metadb) management issues
- Install and configure the software
- Create the local metadbs
- Add disks to shared disksets
- Perform device group management
- Perform cluster-specific changes to device groups
- Create global file systems
- Mirror the boot disk
Module 8 - Managing the Public Network With IPMP
- Define the concepts for an IPMP group
- List examples of network adapters in IPMP groups
- Describe the operation of the in.mpathd daemon
- List the new options to the ifconfig command that support IPMP, and configure IPMP with /etc/hostname.xxx files
- Perform a forced failover of an adapter in an IPMP group
- Configure IPMP manually
- Describe the integration of IPMP into the Sun Cluster software environment
Module 9 - Introducing Data Services, Resource Groups, and HA-NFS
- List the components of a data service agent
- Describe the primary purpose of resource groups
- Differentiate between failover and scalable data services
- Use the clrg and clres command to control resources and resource groups
- Use the rg and clres cstat command to view resource and group status
- Use the clsetup utility for resources and resource group operations
Module 10 - Configuring Scalable Services and Advanced Resource Group Relationships
- Describe scalable services
- Create the failover resource group
- Create the scalable resource group
- Describe the SharedAddress resource
- Use the clrg and clres commands
Module 11 - Performing Supplemental Exercises for Sun Cluster 3.2 Software
- Configure a failover applications that fails over between zones
- Configure HA-ORACLE in a Sun Cluster 3.2 software environment as a failover application
- Configure ORACLE Real Application Cluster (RAC) 10g in a Sun Cluster 3.2 software environment