High-Availability Linux Clustering with ricci and luci

Full Day
(9:00 am-5:00 pm)

Marina 3

SuperSysadmin
T1
Joshua Jensen, Cisco Systems
Description: 

We are evolving from a single service running on a single server, complete with multiple points of hardware and software failure...but to what? With services and platforms that need to be restored before our pagers or bat-phones ring, system administrators of today have a need for high availability. Starting with the current realities of modern data centers, this full-day tutorial will explore practical uses of Linux clusters.

Who should attend: 

Linux administrators who are planning on implementing a multi-service fail-over cluster implementation in a production environment. Course attendees should be familiar with the basics of system administration in a Linux environment. At no point will the word "cloud" be used, although novice administrators and gurus alike should leave the tutorial having learned something.

Take back to work: 

The knowledge and ability to create and administer highly available services and filesystems on a Linux cluster.

Topics include: 
  • Linux HA Cluster technology: Corosync, OpenAIS, rgmanager, Conga
  • Data management with shared disk implementations: SAN, iSCSI, AoE, FCoE
  • Node fencing with STONITH
  • Network power switches and IPMI
  • Clustered logical volume management
  • GFS2 filesystems with Distributed Lock Manager (DLM)
  • Service management with failover domains
  • Virtual machines as a cluster service
  • Cluster administration with luci
  • Working with cluster-unaware services