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Accelerated Sun Certification Administration for Sun Cluster 3.2

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Sun Cluster is a multi-system, multi-site disaster recovery solution that manages the availability of applications services and data across local, regional and vastly dispersed datacenters. In the event that your applications, systems or datacentre experiences a catastrophic failure, Sun Cluster can ensure 24/7 access to all services running on your SPARC and x86/x64-based systems.

  • Intensive Hands-On Training utilizing Lecture, Lab, Review delivery
  • Comprehensive Study Materials, Courseware and Self-Testing software
  • Fully instructor-led with 24 hour lab access
  • Examination vouchers
  • On site testing
  • Accommodation, breakfast and lunch, beverages and snacks
  • Examination passing policy

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GB-ES-0003 3 days £2,500.00

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Who Can Benefit
Students who can benefit from this course are system administrators, database administrators, and support personnel.

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Prerequisites
To succeed fully in this course, students should be able to:
  • Demonstrate Some experience with Relational Databases and SQL.
Firebrand Training staff interview all potential students regarding their technical background, degrees and certifications held, and personal fortitude. This screening process ensures a successful match between the customer and Firebrand Training toward accelerated training and certification.
Firebrand Training is an aggressive training environment. You must have an attitude aimed for success. The above prerequisites are guidelines, but many students with less experience have other background or traits that have enabled their success in accelerated training through Firebrand Training.

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Skills Gained
Upon completion of this course, students should be able to:
  • Describe the major Sun Cluster hardware and software components and functions
  • Configure different methods of connecting to node consoles
  • Configure a cluster administrative workstation
  • Install and configure the Sun Cluster 3.2 software
  • Configure Sun Cluster 3.2 quorum devices
  • Configure VERITAS Volume Manager in the Sun Cluster software environment
  • Configure Solaris Volume Manager software in the Sun Cluster software environment
  • Create Internet Protocol Multipathing (IPMP) failover groups in the Sun Cluster 3.2 software environment
  • Understand resources and resource groups, configure a failover data service resource group (Network File System [NFS]), and resource group (Apache)
  • Configure failover between Solaris 10 zones, failover ORACLE, and ORACLE Real Application Clusters (RAC) in the Sun Cluster software environment

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Course Content

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
Sun Certified System Administrator for Sun Cluster 3.2 Software - Exam Track
This course prepares you for, and tests you in the following exam:
Sun Certified System Administrator for Sun Cluster 3.2 Software (CX-310-345)

Examination Passing Policy
Please note
* Exam vouchers for our (ISC)2 certifications need to be purchased directly from (ISC)2
** On site testing is not included in our ISACA, or ITIL Managers and Revision Certifications
Our instructors teach to accommodate every student's learning needs through individualised instruction, hands-on labs, lab partner and group exercises, independent study, self-testing, and question/answer drills.
Firebrand Training has dedicated, well-equipped educational facilities where you will attend instruction and labs and have access to comfortable study and lounging rooms. Our students consistently say our facilities are second-to-none.

Examination Passing Policy Should a student complete a Firebrand Training Program without having successfully passed all vendor examinations, the student may re-attend that program for a period of one year. Students will only be responsible for accommodations and vendor exam fees.

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