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Linux clustering
Linux clustering course description
A hands on course focusing on Linux clustering using heartbeat v1 and v2.

Who will benefit?
Technical staff working with Linux clusters.

Linux clustering prerequisites
Introduction to Linux administration.

Linux clustering course objectives
By the end of the course delegates will be able to:
  • Build Linux clusters.
  • Configure Linux clusters.
  • Manage Linux clusters.
  • Troubleshoot Linux clusters.
Duration: 2 days

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Linux clustering course contents

HA and cluster concepts
High Availability, downtime, redundancy, single points of failure, what is clustering? Cluster components, Cluster architectures, performance, shared file systems, RAID issues, making applications highly available.

Preparing Linux for clustering
Linux hardware components, creating shared filesystems. Hands on: Installing Linux for clustering.

Heartbeat
What is heartbeat? Heartbeat versions, obtaining heartbeat, installing heartbeat. Hands on: Installing Heartbeat.

Heartbeat configuration
ha.cf, Configuring the primary system, configuring the secondary system. Hands on: Creating clusters.

Configuring resources
Resource types, Resource agents, cib.xml, resource groups, constraints. Data access architectures. IO fencing, STONITH. Hands on: Resource configuration.

How heartbeat works
Membership, heartbeat messages, authentication. Time. Log files, crm_verify. Hands on: Troubleshooting.

Cluster management
Failover methods, failover testing, ipfail, DRBD, verifying shared resources. Hands on: Managing clusters, failover analysis.

Highly available network resources
DNS, DHCP, Apache, others. Configuring Heartbeat to control the applications. Hands on: Apache and clusters

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