Detailed Course Outline
Introduction to the course
- Overview
- Course goals
- Course agenda
- Introduction
- Your Learning Center
Introducing Oracle Solaris Cluster Hardware and Software
- Describe the role of clustering as a high availability (HA) platform
- Describe the Oracle Solaris Cluster hardware and software environment
- Describe the types of applications supported by Oracle Solaris Cluster
- Describe the Oracle Solaris Cluster software HA framework
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 the guidelines for planning Oracle Solaris software installation in a cluster configuration
- Describe the various cluster storage topologies
- Describe the role of quorum devices and quorum votes
- Describe persistent quorum reservations and cluster amnesia
- Identify the cluster transport interconnects
- Identify the public network adapters
Configuring the Oracle Solaris Cluster Software
- Install the Oracle Solaris Cluster software
- Configure the Oracle Solaris Cluster software
- Describe sample cluster configuration scenarios
- Perform quorum configuration
- Perform post-installation verification
Administering Oracle Solaris Cluster
- List commands for administering the cluster
- Assign authorizations and privileges for administering the cluster
- Administer Cluster Global Properties
- Administer Cluster Nodes
- Administer Quorum in a cluster configuration
- Administer Disk Path Monitoring
- Administer SCSI Protocol Settings of Storage Devices
- Administer Cluster Interconnect components
Configuring Volume Management With ZFS
- Build ZFS storage pools and file systems for cluster data
- Create backups for cluster data with snapshots
Configuring Volume Management with Solaris Volume Manager
- Describe the role of Solaris Volume Manager in disk space management
- Manage shared disksets in cluster environment
- Build volumes in shared disk sets with soft partitions of mirrors
- Create highly available file systems
- Manage Solaris Volume Manager device group
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
- Describe the Oracle Solaris Cluster data services
- Describe the primary purpose of resources, resource groups and resource types
- List the guidelines for using global and highly available local file systems
- Describe standard, extension, and resource group properties
- Configure resources and resource groups
- Control the state of resources and resource groups manually
Configuring Scalable Services and Advanced Resource Group Relationships
- Describe scalable services and shared addresses
- Describe the properties of resource groups and scalable groups
- Describe how the SharedAddress resource works with scalable services
- Review command examples for a scalable service
- Control scalable resources and resource groups
- Describe advanced resource group relationships
Configuring Oracle Solaris Zones in Oracle Solaris Cluster
- Describe HA for zones
- Configure a failover zone
- Configure HA for Oracle Solaris kernel zones
- Configure a zone cluster
- Identify cross-cluster affinities and dependencies
Exploring Oracle Solaris Cluster Use Cases
- Configure Oracle 12c as a failover application
- Configure the Oracle Solaris Cluster using unified archive (demonstration)