Oracle Solaris Cluster 4.x Administration NEW

The Oracle Solaris Cluster 4.x Administration course provides students with the essential information and skills needed to install and administer Oracle Solaris Cluster 4.1 hardware and software systems. Students are introduced to Oracle Solaris Cluster 4.1 hardware and software product features, hardware configuration, and software installation along with configuration, data service configuration, and system operation.

Learn To:

• Install Oracle Solaris Cluster 4.1 packages using Oracle Solaris IPS
• Use Cluster commands to administer global properties, quorum, disk paths, and interconnect components
• Build ZFS Storage pools and file systems for the cluster
• Configure an IPMP group and fail over an adapter in the group
• Create scalable and failover resource groups.
• Configure Oracle Solaris Zones, Failover Zones, and Zone Clusters

Benefits To You:

Benefit from gaining a deeper understanding about how to configure Oracle Solaris Zones, failover Zones and Cluster Zones in mission-critical Oracle Solaris 10 applications on Oracle Solaris 11 cloud environments.

Audience

• Data Center Manager
• System Administrator

Course Topics Planning the Oracle Solaris Cluster Environment

• Define clustering
• Oracle Solaris Cluster features
• Oracle Solaris Cluster hardware environment
• Oracle Solaris Cluster software environment
• Oracle Solaris Cluster supported applications
• Oracle Solaris Cluster High Availability framework
• Identifying the global storage services
• Virtualization support in Oracle Solaris Cluster

Establishing Cluster Node Console Connectivity

• Accessing the cluster node consoles
• Using the Oracle Solaris Parallel Console Software

Preparing for the Oracle Solaris Cluster Installation

• Preparing the Oracle Solaris OS environment
• Oracle Solaris Cluster storage connections
• Describing quorum votes and quorum devices
• Persistent quorum reservations and cluster amnesia
• Describing data fencing
• Configuring a cluster interconnect
• Identifying public network adapters
• Configuring shared physical adapters

Installing and Configuring the Oracle Solaris Cluster Software

• Identifying the Oracle Solaris Cluster install package groups
• Prerequisites for installing the Oracle Solaris Cluster software
• Installing the Oracle Solaris Cluster software
• Set the root environment
• Configuring the Oracle Solaris Cluster software
• Sample cluster configuration scenarios
• Settings automatically configured by scinstall
• Automatic quorum configuration and installmode reset

Perform Oracle Solaris Cluster Administration

• Identify the cluster daemons
• Use cluster commands
• Using RBAC with Oracle Solaris Cluster
• Administering cluster global properties
• Administering cluster nodes
• Administering quorum
• Administering disk path monitoring
• Administering SCSI protocol settings of storage devices

Using ZFS With Oracle Solaris Cluster Software

• Building ZFS Storage pools and file systems
• Using ZFS for Oracle Solaris Cluster failover data

Using Solaris Volume Manager With Oracle Solaris Cluster Software

• Introduction to Solaris Volume Manager
• Solaris Volume Manager disk sets
• Solaris Volume Manager Multi-Owner Disksets (for Oracle RAC)
• Shared disk set replica management
• Using Solaris Volume Manager Status Commands and Building Volumes in shared disk sets with soft partitions of mirrors
• Managing Solaris Volume manager disksets and Oracle Solaris Cluster device groups
• Using global and failover file systems on shared disk set volumes

Managing the Public Network With IPMP

• Introducing IPMP
• Describing general IPMP concepts
• Configuring standby adapters in a group
• Controlling the behavior of IPMP
• Using ipadm commands to configure IPMP
• Performing failover and failback manually
• Configuring IPMP in the Oracle Solaris Cluster environment

Managing Data Services, Resource Groups, and HA-NFS

• Introducing data services in the cluster
• Oracle Solaris Cluster Software Data Service Agents
• Introducing data service packaging, installation, and registration
• Introducing resources, resource groups, and resource group manager
• Describing failover resource groups
• Using special resource types
• Guidelines for using global and failover file systems
• Understanding resource dependencies and resource group dependencies

Configuring Scalable Services and Advanced Resource Group Relationships

• Using scalable services and shared addresses
• Exploring the characteristics of scalable services
• Using the shared address resource
• Exploring resource groups for scalable services
• Properties for scalable groups and services
• Adding auxiliary nodes for a SharedAddress aroperty
• Reviewing command examples for a scalable service
• Controlling scalable resources and resource groups

Using Oracle Solaris Zones in Oracle Solaris Cluster

• Oracle Solaris Zones in Oracle Solaris 11
• Using HA for Zones
• Configuring a Failover Zone
• Using Zone Cluster
• Creating a Zone Cluster
• Creating a solaris10 branded zone in Zone Clusters
• Support for Exclusive-IP Zone in Zone Clusters
• Support for Trusted Extensions with Zone Clusters

Course Objectives

• Describe the major Oracle Solaris Cluster hardware and software components and functions
• Configure access to node consoles and the cluster console software
• Install and configure the Oracle Solaris Cluster software
• Configure Oracle Solaris Cluster quorum devices and device fencing
• Configure and use ZFS in the Oracle Solaris Cluster software environment
• Configure Solaris Volume Manager software in the Oracle Solaris Cluster software environment
• Create Internet Protocol Multipathing (IPMP) failover groups in the Oracle Solaris Cluster software environment
• Describe resources and resource groups, configure a failover data service resource group (Network File System [NFS]), and configure a scalable data service resource group (Apache)
• Configure an Oracle Solaris 10 branded zone
• Build zone clusters
• Migrate a scalable application from global zone to zone cluster
• Convert a scalable application to failover application in zone cluster