Date: 27-Nov-2009 URL: global/training/catalog/courses/ES-445.xml

Sun Cluster 3.2 Advanced Administration (ES-445)

The Sun Cluster 3.2 Advanced Administration course provides system administrators, database administrators, and support personnel with advanced configuration, maintenance, and troubleshooting skills and procedures for Sun Cluster 3.2. The course is intended for students who already have experience installing and configuring basic applications for Sun Cluster 3.2. The course begins with coverage of upgrades in the Sun Cluster environment. It then covers advanced data service configuration, and advanced procedures such as adding and deleting nodes. Students will get the opportunity to configure advanced features in the cluster such as shared QFS, telemetry, and automated resource management. Students will understand in detail the three models for managing zones in the Sun Cluster environment and will configure HA-Containers, cluster-controlled applications in zones, and zone clusters.

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Languages

English

Who Can Benefit

Students who can benefit from this course are system administrators, database administrators, and support personnel with previous experience installing and configuring Sun Cluster 3.2

Prerequisites

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

Install and configure Sun Cluster 3.2 software
Configure supported failover and scalable applications in the Sun Cluster 3.2 Environment
Demonstrate knowledge and experience in Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS) server administration and maintenance
Perform basic network administration
Administer virtual volume structures using either VERITAS Volume Manager (VxVM) or Solaris Volume Manager software (formerly known as Solstice DiskSuite software)

Skills Gained

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

Upgrade Solaris OS, Volume Manager and Sun Cluster Software using Live Upgrade and dual partition upgrade method
Perform advanced data service configuration in Sun Cluster 3.2
Add and delete nodes from a running cluster
Perform disk replacement in a running cluster
Administer failover QFS and shared QFS in Sun Cluster 3.2
Distinguish between the three different models for managing zones in Sun Cluster 3.2
Administer the HA-Containers feature (failover zones)
Administer failover and scalable applications in Solaris zones in Sun Cluster 3.2
Configure and administer zone clusters
Understand Sun Cluster management of Oracle RAC and implement Oracle RAC in zone clusters

Related Courses

Before:

Sun Cluster 3.2 Administration (ES-345)
Sun Cluster 3.2 Administration (VC-ES-345)
System Administration for the Solaris 10 Operating System Part 2 (SA-202-S10)
VERITAS Volume Manager 4.0 Administration (was Sun StorEdge Volume Manager Administraton) (ES-310)
Solaris Volume Manager Administration (ES-222)

Course Content

Module 1 - Upgrades in the Sun Cluster Environment

Describe high availability issues when performing upgrades in the Sun Cluster environment
Describe the required relationships for upgrading the Sun Cluster software
Describe the different upgrade strategies
Describe and perform an upgrade of the SolarisT 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 Software

Upgrade Sun Cluster software when not using Live Upgrade
Use the scinstall options that control the dual-partitioned upgrade method, when not using Live Upgrade
Use Live Upgrade to upgrade the Sun Cluster software
Upgrade resource types and resource
Configure storage options and best storage practices for Sun Cluster, including using ZFS for data and for root

Module 3 - Advanced Data Service Configuration

Understand Sun Cluster data services
Develop Sun Cluster 3.2 software data services using the builder applications and GDS
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 3.2 software from a node
Replace failed disks
Back up and restore the Cluster Configuration Repository (CCR)

Module 5 - Advanced Features

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
Configure the Sun Cluster telemetry feature
Configure automated Solaris Resource Management

Module 6 - Zone Features

List the three models for managing applications in zones in Sun Cluster 3
Configure the HA-containers feature (failover zones)
Configure failover and scalable applications in zones managed by standard Sun Cluster resources and resource types
Understand the zone cluster feature
Configure multiple zone clusters on the same physical cluster
Confiure resource management with zone clusters
Configure and manage applications in zone cluster

Module 7 - Introduction to Oracle RAC Management and Oracle RAC in zone clusters

Understand Oracle RAC storage options
Configure Sun Cluster resources controlling Oracle RAC for different storage options
Configure and run Oracle RAC in zone clusters