Course Overview
Uptime is critical, and this course will teach you the concepts and tools you need to maintain an extremely high level of availability for you Linux servers, even under heavy load.
Who should attend
This course is designed for IT managers, system administrators, DevOps, and technical personnel operating highly-available mission-critical Linux systems. Students should have a good working knowledge of fundamental operating system and hardware concepts and experience with network addressing and topologies. A basic foundation in mission critical deployments will also be beneficial.
Course Objectives
You can’t afford to have mission-critical systems go down, and this course will teach you how to ensure that your servers stand up under even the most intense pressure. Developed for some of the largest Linux deployments in the world, this course will teach you:
- How to create and maintain systems that allow for highly-available applications.
- The concepts and best practices used to meet security and high availability requirements using the latest hardware technologies.
- You’ll also become familiar with tools that help you maintain and operate highly-available systems easily.
This course is designed to work with a wide range of Linux distributions, so you will be able to apply these concepts regardless of your distro.
Course Content
Introduction
- Linux Foundation
- Linux Foundation Training
- Logistics
Day 1: The Basics
- Course Objectives
- Agenda
- Mission Critical Systems
- The Intel RAS Features
- From Unix to Enterprise Linux
- Linux distributions and commercial support
- An Introduction To High Availability
- Storage Options
Day 1: The Basics, Part 2
- Advanced Open-Source Storage Solutions
- Linux Distributions' HA Stacks
Day 2: Linux HA Stacks
- Agenda
- Linux High Availability Stacks
- Introduction To Corosync
Day 2: Linux HA Stacks, Part 2
- Introduction To Pacemaker
Day 2: Linux HA Stacks, Part 3
- Node Fencing In Pacemaker Clusters
Day 2: Linux HA Stacks, Part 4
- Highly Available MySQL With DRBD And Pacemaker
Day 3: Advanced Corosync/Pacemaker Clusters
- Agenda
- Resource Monitoring And Recovery With Pacemaker
Day 3: Advanced Corosync/Pacemaker Clusters, Part 2
- Integrating Advanced Storage Solutions And Pacemaker
Day 3: Advanced Corosync/Pacemaker Clusters, Part 3
- Highly Available Virtualization With GlusterFS And Pacemaker
Day 3: Advanced Corosync/Pacemaker Clusters, Part 4
- Site Fail-Over With The Linux High Availability Cluster Stack
Day 3: Advanced Corosync/Pacemaker Clusters, Part 5
- Cluster Maintenance And Upgrades
Day 4: Automating, Monitoring And Designing HA-Clusters
- Agenda
- Monitoring Linux-HA Clusters
- Automating Linux-HA Cluster Deployments
- Designing Systems For High Availability
- Additional Considerations