Oracle Linux Advanced System Administration NEW

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Oracle Linux Advanced System Administration NEW

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This Oracle Linux Advanced System Administration training is ideal for administrators. You'll learn about managing resources and file systems, while developing troubleshooting and advanced storage administration skills.

Learn To:

  • Address today's large storage requirements.
  • Manage resources to deliver consistent response times and performance.
  • Allocate system resources to specific Linux processes.
  • Recover from boot errors.
  • Identify and resolve performance issues in your systems.
  • Use DTrace, which provides a comprehensive look into the software stack and enables you to identify performance bottlenecks.
  • Experience the Oracle Cluster File System, which provides a high performance and high avail…

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This Oracle Linux Advanced System Administration training is ideal for administrators. You'll learn about managing resources and file systems, while developing troubleshooting and advanced storage administration skills.

Learn To:

  • Address today's large storage requirements.
  • Manage resources to deliver consistent response times and performance.
  • Allocate system resources to specific Linux processes.
  • Recover from boot errors.
  • Identify and resolve performance issues in your systems.
  • Use DTrace, which provides a comprehensive look into the software stack and enables you to identify performance bottlenecks.
  • Experience the Oracle Cluster File System, which provides a high performance and high availability file system when you must have a redundant environment.
  • Understand a variety of tools and techniques to diagnose performance problems on Oracle Linux systems.
  • Use new technologies, including Linux Containers.

Benefits to You

After taking this course, you will be equipped to use the advanced features of Oracle Linux to get the most out of your systems and applications. Discover how to take advantage of Btrfs, which improve file system performance. You'll also learn how to use Linux Containers to increase your resource utilization by creating secure, isolated environments on a single host.

Gain Hands-On Installation Experience

Extensive hands-on practices will guide you through each concept. You will install different types of file systems, including Btrfs. You will also experience how to share storage devices across multiple systems, allocate system resources such as CPU, memory, network and I/O bandwidth to critical processes.

Live Virtual Class Format

A Live Virtual Class (LVC) is exclusively for registered students; unregistered individuals may not view an LVC at any time. Registered students must view the class from the country listed in the registration form. Unauthorized recording, copying, or transmission of LVC content may not be made.


Audience
  • System Administrator
  • Support Engineer
  • Data Center Manager

Course Topics Course Introduction
  • Virtualization with Oracle VM Server
  • Starting, Stopping, and Listing Guests
  • Connecting to Guests
  • Classroom System Configuration
Implementing the Btrfs File System
  • Introduction to Btrfs
  • Creating a Btrfs File System
  • The btrfs Utility
  • Btrfs Subvolmes and Snapshots
  • Taking a Snapshot of a File
  • Mounting a Btrfs Subvolume
  • Converting Ext File Systems to Btrfs
  • Create a Btrfs root file system using the UEK Boot ISO
Managing Resources with Control Groups (cgroups)
  • Introduction to Cgroups
  • Cgroup Subsystems and Subsystem Parameters
  • Cgroup Hierarchical Model
  • Cgroup Configuration Rules and Constrants
  • Using Cgroup Command Line Utilities
  • Assigning Processes to Cgroups
  • Configuring Cgroup Rules
  • Enabling PAM to Use Cgroup Rules
Virtualizing with Linux Containers
  • Introduction to Linux Containers
  • Linux Container Configuration File
  • Required Linux Container Software Packages
  • Linux Container Template Scripts
  • Starting and Stopping a Linux Container
  • Using the lxc Utilities
  • Creating a Linux Container from an existing root file system
Advanced Storage Administration
  • Introduction to iSCSI
  • Configuring iSCSI Target and iSCSI Initiator
  • Introduction to Device Mapper Multipathing (DM-Multipath)
  • The DM-Multipath Configuration File
  • Multipath Device Identifiers
  • Configuring iSCSI Multipathing
  • Introduction to Udev
  • Using the udevadm Utility
Clustering with the Oracle Cluster File System Version 2 (OCFS2)
  • Introduction to OCFS2
  • OCFS2 Features
  • Preparing for an OCFS2 Implementation
  • Configuring the Cluster Layout
  • OCFS2 Heartbeat Modes
  • Cluster Timout Settings
  • Using the OCFS2 Utilities
  • OCFS2 Tuning and Debugging
Performance Diagnostics
  • Using Rescue Mode to Correct Boot Problems
  • Frequently Encountered Performance Problems
  • Performance Tuning Kernel Parameters
  • System Resource Reporting Utilities
  • OS Watcher Black Box
  • OS Watcher Black Box Analyzer
  • Using the latencytop utility
  • Using the strace utility
Core Dump Analysis
  • System Core Collection
  • The kdump Configuration File
  • Kernel Parameters
  • Magic SysRq Keys
  • The kernel-debuginfo Software Packages
  • Using the crash Utility
  • General Guidelines for Using the crash Utility
Dynamic Tracking with DTrace
  • Introduction to DTrace on Oracle Linux
  • Why DTrace on Oracle Linux
  • Enabling DTrace on Oracle Linux
  • DTrace Providers and Probes
  • The D Programming Language
  • Enabling DTrace Actions
  • Built-in D Variables and Functions
  • D scripts

Course Objectives
  • Create and use Btrfs file systems
  • Configure resource management using Control Groups (cgroups)
  • Configure operating system-level virtualization with Linux Containers (LXC)
  • Configure iSCSI shared storage
  • Configure Device Mapper Multipathing
  • Create Udev rules for persistent device naming
  • Configure a shared disk cluster file system using Oracle Cluster File System Version 2 (OCFS2)
  • Use a range of performance monitoring utilities
  • Collect and analyze core dumps
  • Explore your system using Dynamic Tracing (DTrace)

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