HPE Serviceguard on Linux

Prerequisites

• Background in Linux system and network administration including Logical Volume Manager (LVM) and/or Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM)

Audience

• Linux system and network administrators who currently, or soon will, develop, design, implement, and monitor Serviceguard (SG) clusters on Linux

Course Outline

Module 1: Course Introduction

Module 2: Introduction to High Availability

• What is high availability and reducing the risk
• Storage technologies and HA network design

Module 3: High Availability with Serviceguard (SG)

• SG features and benefits and SG packages
• Minimizing planned downtime
• Installing prerequisite software
• Serviceguard Manager

Module 4: Storage for Serviceguard

• Volume management
• Persistent reservation overview
• Review of LVM and VxVM concepts
• Configure a shared LVM volume and VxVM data group
• Using hosttags

Module 5: Cluster Concepts and Configuration

• Describe the difference between heartbeat, stationary, and standby LAN interfaces
• Configure active/standby LAN interfaces using channel bonding
• Cluster arbitration using a LockLUN and Quorum server
• Steps to configure a Serviceguard cluster
• View the status of the cluster and log file

Module 6: Additional Cluster Features

• Test the local LAN failover
• Node failures and cluster reformation
• Node joining and leaving a cluster
• Basic cluster management

Module 7: Packages and Services

• Configure a basic Serviceguard package
• The package configuration file
• Package and node switching management
• Interpret package status from cmviewcl
• Package log file

Module 8: Package Policies

• Package FAILOVER and FAILBACK policies
• Package access control
• Using package dependencies, priorities, and weights

Module 9: Application Monitoring Scripts and Toolkits

• Writing and using an application monitor
• The package control script
• Application integration toolkits

Module 10: Cluster Troubleshooting

• Test clusters and packages for problems
• Using the log files
• Using Serviceguard commands for troubleshooting
• Approaches to troubleshooting

Module 11: Cluster and Package Online Reconfiguration

• Cluster modifications online and online package modifications
• Storage reconfiguration
• Add and remove a node or package while the cluster is running

Module 12: Highly Available NFS

• Install the NFS server toolkit
• Configure an NFS server package using the NFS toolkit
• Configure an NFS client package
• Test the NFS server package for various failures

Module 13: Highly Available Oracle Database

• Install the Oracle database toolkit
• Configure an Oracle 11gR2 database package using the Oracle toolkit
• Check the operation of the Oracle database and failover

Module 14: Cluster and Package Maintenance

• Rolling upgrade of Serviceguard
• Kernel parameter change using Live Application Detach
• Package partial startup

Module 15: Generic Resources

• Configure and use generic resources in a package

Module 16: Cluster Simulation

• Investigate the simulator interface and actions

Module 17: Cluster Analytics

• Install the Analytics utility
• Display data collected by Serviceguard Cluster Analytics

Module 18: Advanced Tookits

• Discuss the following tookits for Serviceguard: SAP/HANA, Oracle, MS/SQL on Linux, DB2