HP Serviceguard on Linux for HP-UX Administrators

Course overview

This course is designed for experienced Serviceguard on HP-UX administrators who will be implementing Serviceguard A.11.20 on Linux. Topics include the major differences between the implementations, in particular the installation of Serviceguard, the active/standby LAN interface mechanism and Logical Volume Manager volume group activation using hosttags. The course is 50 percent lecture and 50 percent hands-on labs using Linux version RHEL 6.2 on HP servers, culminating in configuring an Oracle 11gR2 database package using the Oracle toolkit

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 (LVM) (H6285S) or HP-UX VERITAS Volume Manager (VxVM) (HB505S) and
• Linux administration experience (H7091S or U2794S) or equivalent will be helpful.

Audience

• Experienced Serviceguard on HP-UX system administrators , who may have attend H6487s course or have equivalent HP Serviceguard administration experience

Ways to save

Course objectives

At the conclusion of this course you should be able to:

• Configure a Serviceguard cluster and packages under Linux
• Understand the differences between Serviceguard on HP-UX and Linux

Next steps

• HP Serviceguard II: ContinentalClusters, CFS, & Oracle RAC (U8601S) or HP Metrocluster (HB507S), HP Integrity Virtual Machines (HB506S), HP StorageWorks XP Disk Arrays (H6773S)

Benefits to you

• Protect your mission critical applications against a wide variety of hardware and software failures through effective use of Serviceguard on Linux
• Reduce your application downtime to near zero by learning how to configure your Serviceguard cluster and using Serviceguard's rolling upgrade facility
• Minimize, and in some instances eliminate, your application downtime by learning how to automate the detection of failures and restoration of application service

Course outline

Introduction

• Objectives
• Prerequisites
• What the course IS and IS NOT

Device File Naming

• Disk storage
• Partitions and swap
• /proc
• Network interfaces

Storage for Serviceguard

• Disk storage management overview
• Persistent Reservations using SCSI-3
• Review of LVM concepts
• Configure a shared LVM volume group
• Configure and use hosttags
• HP-UX and Linux VG activation differences

Linux Network Channel Bonding for Standby Lans

• Standby LAN differences in HP-UX and Linux
• HP-UX active/standby LAN
• Linux active/standby LAN using channel bonding
• Configuring Linux channel bonding

Software Installation and 'cmeasyinstall'

• Software installation differences in HP-UX and Linux
• Prerequisite software packages for HP Serviceguard A.11.20
• Install Serviceguard A.11.20
• Using ‘cmeasyinstall’
• Install and configure the Serviceguard Quorum server
• Install Serviceguard Manager

Serviceguard Differences HP-UX and Linux

• Network discovery and monitoring
• Volume management
• File systems
• Configure a shared LVM volume group
• Serviceguard directories and files

Create a Serviceguard Cluster

• Steps to configure a Serviceguard cluster
• Configure a LockLun
• Convert a running cluster to use a Quorum server
• View the cluster status
• The cluster log file

Creating Serviceguard Packages

• Review package concepts
• Modular packages
• Create and configure a Serviceguard package using shared storage
• The package log file
• Configure and use hosttags

Using Serviceguard Toolkits

• Describe the available Serviceguard on Linux toolkits
• Using the Oracle toolkit to create an Oracle 11gR2 package
• Testing the Oracle package