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Who Can Benefit

Students who can benefit from this course are those responsible for designing, configuring, maintaining, and troubleshooting a Sun Cluster 3.1 software environment.  

Prerequisites

To succeed fully in this course, students should be able to:

• Install, configure, and administer the Sun Cluster 3.1 software
• Use the VxVM software or Solaris Volume Manager (Solaris VM) software
• Perform routine system and network administration tasks

 

Skills Gained

Upon completion of this course, students should be able to:

• Upgrade the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS), VERITAS Volume Manager (VxVM), and ORACLE database software
• Upgrade Sun Cluster software
• Build Sun Cluster software data services and perform advanced resource and resource group management
• Perform recovery and maintenance procedures on Sun Cluster software
• Configure the QFS, shared QFS, and zone advanced features of the cluster software
• Describe Sun Cluster software best practices
• Harden Sun Cluster security
• Use helpful tips to troubleshoot Sun Cluster software
• Perform Sun Cluster software troubleshooting exercises

 

Related Courses

Before:

• Sun Cluster 3.0 Administration (ES-333)
• Sun Cluster 3.1 Administration (ES-338)

After:

• Sun Cluster Geographic Edition 3.1 Software Administration (ES-361)

 

Course Content

Module 1 - Upgrades in the Sun Cluster Environment

• Describe high availability issues when performing upgrades in the Sun Cluster environment
• Describe and perform an upgrade of the Solaris OS using the Solaris Live Upgrade software
• Upgrade the Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) software into the Solaris Live Upgrade environment

Module 2 - Upgrading the Sun Cluster Software

• Define and compare different methods of upgrading cluster software
• Upgrade Sun Cluster 3.1 software
• Upgrade resource types and resources

Module 3 - Advanced Data Service Configuration

• Understand Sun Cluster data services
• Write Sun Cluster 3.x software data services
• Control RGM behavior through resource group properties and resource properties
• Use advanced resource group relationships
• Tune multimaster and scalable applications

Module 4 - Performing Recovery and Maintenance Procedures

• Add a new node to a running cluster
• Remove a node from the cluster
• Replace a failed node in the cluster
• Uninstall the Sun Cluster 3.1 software from a node
• Replace failed disks
• Back up and restore the Cluster Configuration Repository (CCR)

Module 5 - Advanced Features (QFS and Zones)

• Understand the design and features of the QFS file system
• Configure a standard QFS file system
• Configure a shared QFS file system in the cluster using Solaris Volume Manager multiowner diskset devices
• Run high-availability Solaris 10 OS zones
• Understand the details of the zone agent
• Configure a failover zone

Module 6 - Best Practices

• Define and implement best practices for the HAStoragePlus resource
• Define and implement best practices for Internet Protocol multipathing (IPMP)
• Define and implement best practices for boot disk encapsulation and mirroring
• Define and implement best practices for quorum devices
• Define and implement best practices for campus clusters

Module 7 - Hardening Cluster Security

• Define basic security concepts
• Identify security vulnerabilities in a Sun Cluster 3.x software environment
• Use the Solaris Security Toolkit software
• Download and install security software on the cluster nodes
• Implement the Toolkit software secure cluster driver
• Provide secure clustered services

Module 8 - Examining Troubleshooting Tips

• Describe how to troubleshoot clustered services
• Identify log files for each layer

Module 9 - Troubleshooting the Software

• Observe self-induced problems
• Resolve instructor-induced problems and faults in your cluster
• Perform node disaster recovery in practice

 
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