Upgrades in the Sun Cluster Environment
- Describe high availability issues when performing upgrades in the Sun Cluster environment
- Describe the required relationships for upgrading the Sun Cluster software
- Describe the different upgrade strategies
- Describe and perform an upgrade of the SolarisTOS using the Solaris Live Upgrade software
- Upgrade the Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) software into the Solaris Live Upgrade environment
Upgrading the Sun Cluster Software Software
- Upgrade Sun 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 Sun Cluster software
- Upgrade resource types and resource
- Configure storage options and best storage practices for Sun Cluster, including using ZFS for data and for root
Advanced Data Service Configuration
- Understand Sun Cluster data services
- Develop Sun Cluster 3.2 software data services using the builder applications and GDS
- Control RGM behavior through resource group properties and resource properties
- Use advanced resource group relationships
- Tune multimaster and scalable applications
Performing Recovery and Maintenance Procedures
- Add a new node to a running cluster
- Remove a node from the cluster
- Replace a failed node in the cluster
- Uninstall the Sun Cluster 3.2 software from a node
- Replace failed disks
- Back up and restore the Cluster Configuration Repository (CCR)
Advanced Features
- Understand 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
- Configure the Sun Cluster telemetry feature
- Configure automated Solaris Resource Management
Zone Features
- List the three models for managing applications in zones in Sun Cluster 3
- Configure the HA-containers feature (failover zones)
- Configure failover and scalable applications in zones managed by standard Sun Cluster resources and resource types
- Understand the zone cluster feature
- Configure multiple zone clusters on the same physical cluster
- Configure resource management with zone clusters
- Configure and manage applications in zone cluster
Introduction to Oracle RAC Management and Oracle RAC in zone clusters
- Understand Oracle RAC storage options
- Configure Sun Cluster resources controlling Oracle RAC for different storage options
- Configure and run Oracle RAC in zone clusters