HP Serviceguard II: ContinentalClusters, CFS, & Oracle RAC (U8601S)

COURSE OVERVIEW

Experienced system administrators learn how to use cluster technology with a quorum service and appropriate CFS structures to support Oracle 11gR2 in data center environments. Students set up and test a failover cluster, configure a quorum server or lock disk cluster, incorporate cluster file systems into a Serviceguard cluster, explore extended distance clusters and configure ContinentalClusters including a dress rehearsal. The 3-day course is 40 percent lecture and 60 percent hands-on labs using HP servers.

AUDIENCE

HP-UX system administrators who develop, design, implement, and monitor Serviceguard clusters

PREREQUISITES

• HP-UX System and Network Administration I (H3064S) and HP-UX System and Network Administration II (H3065S) or
• HP-UX System and Network Administration for Experienced UNIX® System Administrators  (H5875S) and
• HP-UX Logical Volume Manager (H6285S) or HP-UX VERITAS Volume Manager (HB505S) and
• POSIX Shell Programming (H4322S) or experience in shell scripting and
• HP Serviceguard I (H6487S): Note that students who have not attended H6487S are likely to have great difficulty with U8601S

 COURSE OBJECTIVES

• Review Serviceguard concepts
• Create a multi-node package
• Configure and perfom a Continental Cluster dress rehearsal
• Configure a Serviceguard cluster with the quorum service or lock disk
• Understand a Cluster File System (CFS)
• Learn how to create a Serviceguard CFS cluster using VxVM setup and multi-node, diskgroup, and mountpoint packages
• Configure and test Oracle 11gR2 Clusterware and SGeRAC as a failover and RAC cluster
• Discuss and understand “extended distance clusters”
• Understand and configure a ContinentalCluster

 BENEFITS TO YOU

• Protect your mission critical applications against a wide variety of hardware and software failures through effective use of Oracle 11g in a Serviceguard environment
• Deliver highly available database service to your applications by integrating Oracle 11gR2 Real Application Cluster with the Serviceguard Framework
• Maintain a complex Oracle environment using SGeRAC
• Reduce your database downtime by using Oracle’s RAC in conjunction with Serviceguard
• Understand how Cluster File Systems (CFS) can achieve faster failover and facilitate management of applications

NEXT STEPS

• Consider attending the other courses in the HP Virtual Server Environment (VSE) curriculum to learn more about HP-UX virtualization

DETAILED COURSE OUTLINE

Introduction

• State the pre-requisites and expectations of this training course.
• State the purpose and scope of this training course
• Identify the platforms, operating systems, and software products used in this course
• Configure a cluster quickly from a base operating system install
• Review some ‘new’ Serviceguard features

Multi-node Packages

• Create a multi-node package
• Understand Serviceguard command output for multi-node packages
• Start and stop multi-node packages
• Describe the differences between a fail-over package and a multi-node package
• Explain the limitations of using filesystems in a multi-node package
• Identify the problems of using floating IP addresses in multi-node packages

Serviceguard Storage Management Suite (CFS)

• Understand key features of CFS
• Configure Serviceguard multi-node packages
• Configure CFS Mountpoint multi-node packages
• Create a Serviceguard CFS cluster

Serviceguard Extensions for Oracle RAC

• Describe the purpose, architecture and components of SGeRAC
• Install/remove SGeRAC
• Describe the difference between a Failover Cluster and a RAC Cluster
• Install Oracle 11gR2 Clusterware
• Create a Serviceguard package to control Clusterware
• Outline the different storage options available for Clusterware and RAC
• Deploy Oracle software on CFS storage

Extended Distance and Other Clusters

• Understand the four types of clusters
• Understand the difference between the four types of clusters
• Understand the geographic limitations of each of the four types of clusters

Disaster Recovery with Continental Clusters

• Describe the architecture used for HP’s Continental Clusters product
• List two supported methods for performing data replication in a Continental cluster
• Setup and configure a primary cluster in a Continental clusters environment
• Setup and configure a recovery cluster in a Continental clusters environment
• Setup, configure and test a monitoring package for a Continental clusters environment
• Put a recovery group into maintenance mode
• Setup, configure and run a disaster recovery dress rehearsal
• Revert a cluster after a disaster
• Use commands to monitor the status of a Continental cluster
• Be aware of the implications of data privacy laws on Continental cluster design

Extended Distance and Other Clusters

• Understand the four types of clusters
• Understand the difference between the four types of clusters
• Understand the geographic limitations of each of the four types of clusters

Disaster Recovery Dress Rehearsals with Continental Clusters

• Identify a suitable architecture for TCP/IP migration across clusters
• Understand the uses and limitations of a dress rehearsal
• Perform a disaster recovery dress rehearsal
• Put a package into maintenance mode
• Take a package out of maintenance mode
• Create a dress-rehearsal package
• Understand the important infrastructure changes which are not tested by a DR dress rehearsal

For more information about HP training programs in Ukraine visit the web site at http://www8.hp.com/ua/ru/training/index.html

For whom it is intended:

• System administrator