ES-345 Sun Cluster 3.2 Administration

Module 1 - Introducing Sun Cluster Hardware and Software

• Define the concept of clustering
• Describe the hardware and software environment
• Identify the data service support
• Explore the high availability (HA) framework
• Define global storage services differences

Module 2 - Exploring Node Console Connectivity and the Cluster Console Software

• Access the Node consoles on domain-based servers
• Configure the Sun Cluster console software
• Use the Cluster console tools

Module 3 - Preparing for Installation and Understanding Quorum Devices

• List the Sun Cluster software boot disk requirements and restrictions
• Identify typical cluster storage topologies
• Describe quorum votes and quorum devices
• Configure a quorum server
• Describe persistent quorum reservations and cluster amnesia
• Describe data fencing
• Configure a supported cluster interconnect system
• Identify public network adapters
• Configure shared physical adapters

Module 4 - Installing and Configuring the Sun Cluster Software Framework

• Install the Sun Cluster packages using the Sun Java Enterprise System (Java ES) installer
• Describe the Sun Cluster Framework configuration
• Describe the files and settings that are automatically configured by scinstall
• Perform automatic quorum configuration
• Describe the manual quorum selection

Module 5 - Performing Basic Cluster Administration

• Identify the cluster daemons
• Perform basic cluster startup and shutdown operations
• Describe the Sun Cluster administration utilities

Module 6 - Using VERITAS Volume Manager for Volume Management

• Describe the most important concepts of VERITAS Volume Manager (VxVM)
• Initialize a VERITAS Volume Manager disk
• Install VxVM 5.0 software
• Use basic commands to put disks in disk groups and build volumes
• Register and resynchronize VxVM disk groups with the cluster

Module 7 - Managing Volumes With Solaris Volume Manager

• Describe the most important concepts of Solaris Volume Manager
• Describe Solaris Volume Manager soft partitions
• Explain shared disksets, local disksets and multiowner disksets
• Describe volume database (metadb) management issues
• Install and configure the software
• Create the local metadbs
• Add disks to shared disksets
• Perform device group management
• Perform cluster-specific changes to device groups
• Create global file systems
• Mirror the boot disk

Module 8 - Managing the Public Network With IPMP

• Define the concepts for an IPMP group
• List examples of network adapters in IPMP groups
• Describe the operation of the in.mpathd daemon
• List the new options to the ifconfig command that support IPMP, and configure IPMP with /etc/hostname.xxx files
• Perform a forced failover of an adapter in an IPMP group
• Configure IPMP manually
• Describe the integration of IPMP into the Sun Cluster software environment

Module 9 - Introducing Data Services, Resource Groups, and HA-NFS

• List the components of a data service agent
• Describe the primary purpose of resource groups
• Differentiate between failover and scalable data services
• Use the clrg and clres command to control resources and resource groups
• Use the rg and clres cstat command to view resource and group status
• Use the clsetup utility for resources and resource group operations

Module 10 - Configuring Scalable Services and Advanced Resource Group Relationships

• Describe scalable services
• Create the failover resource group
• Create the scalable resource group
• Describe the SharedAddress resource
• Use the clrg and clres commands

Module 11 - Performing Supplemental Exercises for Sun Cluster 3.2 Software

• Configure a failover applications that fails over between zones
• Configure HA-ORACLE in a Sun Cluster 3.2 software environment as a failover application
• Configure ORACLE Real Application Cluster (RAC) 10g in a Sun Cluster 3.2 software environment