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Course Outline

1. Review Red Hat Enterprise Clustering and Storage Management Technologies
2. Linux Dynamic Device Management
• udev Features
• udev Rule Configuration
3. iSCSI
• iSCSI as a Shared Storage Device
• Configuring an iSCSI initiator
• Authentication
4. Advanced Software RAID
• Types and Differences
• Monitoring
• Optimization Techniques
• Growth and High Availability
5. Device Mapper and Multipathing
• Mapping Targets
• LVM2 Snapshots
• Multipath Device Configuration
6. Cluster Technology
• Common Cluster Hardware
• Shared Storage Alternatives
7. Cluster Suite Overview
• Design and Elements of Clustering
• Cluster Configuration Tools
• Clustered Logical Volumes and Lock Management
8. Quorum and the Cluster Manager
• Intracluster Communication
• Cluster Tools
9. Fencing and Failover
• Fencing Components
• Failover Domains
10. Quorum Disk
• Heuristic Configuration
11. Service Manager
• Resource Groups and Recovery
• Hierarchical Resource Ordering
• High Availability Services
12. Global File System (GFS)
• Implementation and Configuration
• Lock Management
• Planning For and Growing On-line GFS
• Monitoring Tools
• Journal Configuration and Management