Sun Cluster Course

by Vibrant Technologies & Computers

Module

Title

Contents

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

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