Oracle Solaris Cluster 4.x Administration Ed 4

Suggested Prerequisite

• Oracle Solaris 11 System Administration
• Oracle Solaris 11 Advanced System Administration

Audience

• Data Center Manager
• System Administrator

Course Topics

Introduction to the course

• Introduction
• Overview
• Course agenda
• Course goals
• Your Learning Center

Introducing Oracle Solaris Cluster Hardware and Software

• Describe the Oracle Solaris Cluster software HA framework
• Describe the Oracle Solaris Cluster hardware and software environment
• Describe the role of clustering as a high availability (HA) platform
• Describe the types of applications supported by Oracle Solaris Cluster

Establishing Cluster Node Console Connectivity

• Describe the different methods for accessing the cluster node console
• Install the pconsole utility

Preparing for the Oracle Solaris Cluster Installation

• Describe persistent quorum reservations and cluster amnesia
• Identify the cluster transport interconnects
• Identify the public network adapters
• Describe the role of quorum devices and quorum votes
• Describe the guidelines for planning Oracle Solaris software installation in a cluster configuration
• Describe the various cluster storage topologies

Configuring the Oracle Solaris Cluster Software

• Install the Oracle Solaris Cluster software
• Describe sample cluster configuration scenarios
• Perform post-installation verification
• Perform quorum configuration
• Configure the Oracle Solaris Cluster software

Administering Oracle Solaris Cluster

• Administer cluster nodes
• Administer cluster global properties
• List commands for administering the cluster
• Perform Cluster Operations
• Administer disk path monitoring and SCSI protocol settings of storage devices
• Administer cluster interconnect components
• Use the clsetup command
• Administer quorum in a cluster configuration

Configuring Volume Management With Oracle Solaris ZFS

• Use ZFS in the Oracle Solaris Cluster environment
• Build ZFS storage pools and file systems
• Describe the role of ZFS in data management
• Configuring Volume Management with Solaris Volume Manager
• Describe the role of Solaris Volume Manager in disk space management
• Build volumes in shared disk sets with soft partitions of mirrors
• Manage shared disksets in cluster environment
• Manage Solaris Volume Manager device group
• Create highly available file systems

Managing the Public Network

• Manage the Public Network with IPMP
• Manage the Public Network with Link aggregation

Managing Data Services, Resource Groups, and HA-NFS

• Control the state of resources and resource groups manually
• Describe standard, extension, and resource group properties
• Describe the primary purpose of resources, resource groups and resource types
• Configure resources and resource groups
• List the guidelines for using global and highly available local file systems
• Describe the Oracle Solaris Cluster data services

Configuring Scalable Services and Advanced Resource Group Relationships

• Describe the properties of resource groups and scalable groups
• Control scalable resources and resource groups
• Describe scalable services and shared addresses
• Describe advanced resource group relationships
• Describe how the SharedAddress resource works with scalable services
• Review command examples for a scalable service

Configuring Oracle Solaris Zones in Oracle Solaris Cluster

• Configure a HA for Solaris Zones
• Describe zone cluster
• Configure a zone cluster
• Describe Oracle Solaris Zones
• Describe HA for Solaris Zones

Exploring Oracle Solaris Cluster Use Cases

• Configure Oracle 12c as a failover application
• Configure the Oracle Solaris Cluster using unified archive (demonstration)