Oracle Solaris Cluster Advanced Administration

Course Description

The Oracle Solaris Cluster Advanced Administration course provides System Administrators, Database Administrators, and Support Personnel with advanced configuration, maintenance, and troubleshooting skills and procedures for Oracle Solaris Cluster. The course is intended for students who already have experience installing and configuring basic applications for Oracle Solaris Cluster. The course begins with coverage of upgrades in the Oracle Solaris Cluster environment. It then covers advanced data service configuration, and advanced procedures such as adding and deleting nodes. Students will get the opportunity to configure advanced features in the cluster such as shared QFS, telemetry, and automated resource management. Students will understand in detail the three models for managing zones in the Solaris Cluster environment and will configure HA-Containers, cluster-controlled applications in zones, and zone clusters.

Skills Gained

• Upgrade Solaris OS, Volume Manager, and Oracle Solaris Cluster Software using Live Upgrade and dual partition upgrade method
• Perform advanced data service configuration in Oracle Solaris Cluster
• Add and delete nodes from a running cluster
• Perform disk replacement in a running cluster
• Administer failover QFS and shared QFS in Solaris Cluster
• Distinguish between the three different models for managing zones in Solaris Cluster
• Administer the HA-Containers feature (failover zones)
• Administer failover and scalable applications in Solaris zones in Solaris Cluster
• Configure and administer zone clusters
• Understand Solaris Cluster management of Oracle RAC and implement Oracle RAC in zone clusters

Who Can Benefit

• Database Administrators
• Support Engineer
• System Administrator

Syllabus

Upgrades in the Solaris Cluster Environment

• Describe high availability issues when performing upgrades in the Solaris Cluster environment
• Describe the required relationships for upgrading the Solaris Cluster software
• Describe the different upgrade strategies
• Describe and perform an upgrade of the Solaris OS using the Solaris Live Upgrade software

Upgrading the Solaris Cluster Software and Completing Solaris Cluster Upgrades

• Upgrade Solaris Cluster software when not using Live Upgrade
• Use the scinstall options that control the dual-partitioned upgrade method, when not using Live Upgrade
• Use Live Upgrade to upgrade the Solaris Cluster software
• Upgrade resource types and resources
• Perform post-installation storage best-practices for Solaris Cluster

Advanced Data Service Configuration

• Describe Solaris Cluster data services
• Write Solaris Cluster 3.x software data services
• Control RGM behavior through resource group properties and resource properties
• Use advanced resource group relationships
• Configure multimaster and scalable applications

Performing Recovery and Maintenance Procedures

• Add a new node to a running cluster
• Remove a node from a cluster
• Replace a failed node in a cluster
• Uninstall the Solaris Cluster software from a node
• Replace failed disks
• Back up and restore the Cluster Configuration Repository (CCR)

Advanced Features (QFS and Oracle Solaris Cluster Geographic Edition)

• Describe the design and features of the QFS file system
• Configure a standard QFS file system
• Configure a shared QFS file system in the cluster using Solaris Volume Manager multiowner diskset devices
• Describe the features of Solaris Cluster Geographic Edition and use scripts to create a sample configuration

Advanced Features (Zones)

• Configure and identify benefits of HA-Containers agent
• Configure applications using Solaris Cluster Zones feature
• Configure and understand zone clusters

Oracle RAC in Solaris Cluster and Zone Cluster

• Describe Oracle RAC 10g and 11g with and without Solaris Cluster
• Describe the many benefits of using Solaris Cluster underneath Oracle RAC 10g or 11g
• Describe the architecture of Oracle RAC in a zone cluster