Sun Cluster 3.1 Advanced Administration (ES-438)

Description:

The Sun Cluster 3.1 Advanced Administration course provides students with the skills necessary to upgrade, protect, configure, maintain, and troubleshoot software running in a Sun Cluster 3.1 software environment. Through the use of lecture and hands-on labs, students learn how to upgrade the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS), Sun Cluster software, VERITAS Volume Manager (VxVM), and ORACLE. Students learn how Sun Cluster data services are written, in order to fully understand how to tune and configure resources and resource groups. The course discusses advanced maintenance procedures for the cluster and several advanced features, such as using Sun StorEdge QFS in the cluster. The course discusses several best practices for Sun Cluster 3.x software administration, and specifically addresses hardening the cluster security using the Solaris Security Toolkit.

Finally, the course defines general and specific troubleshooting approaches and resources to resolve problems in a Sun Cluster 3.x software environment.

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