SUSE Enterprise Storage 5 Administration

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SUSE Enterprise Storage 5 Administration

Duration: 5 Days

Course Code: SESA5

Prerequisite:

Before taking this training student should have knowledge of Linux system administration equivalent to SUSE Certified Administrator in Enterprise Linux 12. Familiarity with other storage solutions and distributed file systems would be a plus point but it is not essential.

Course Description:

SUSE Enterprise Storage 5 Administration 5-day course introduces students to SUSE Enterprise Storage 5 Administration and help them to gain skills needed to access, administer and monitor a basic storage cluster. SUSE Enterprise Storage help IT Organizations with the ability to deploy a distributed storage architecture which will support various use cases using commodity hardware platforms.

Course Objectives:

Upon Completion of this Course, you will accomplish following:
•    Introduction to SES 5 and Ceph Architecture
•    OpenATTIC Management Console
•    Configure and access Block Storage using rbd
•    Configure and access Object Storage using the Ceph Object Gateway (RADOS-GW)
•    Configure and use File Storage with CephFS
•    Configure access to Block Storage using iSCSI
•    Configure access to Object and File Storage via NFS
•    Monitoring a SES Cluster using OpenATTIC

Intended Audience:

This course is designed for existing Linux administrators who want to configure highly available services using SUSE Linux Enterprise HA. This course provides a foundation for deploying SAP on SLE 15 HA.      

Course Outline:

Section 1: Introduction to SES 5 and Ceph Architecture
? Ceph Features
? Ceph Architecture
? Core Components
? RADOS
? CRUSH
? Ceph Nodes and Daemons
? Storage Structure
? Pool
? Placement Group
? Example
? Hardware Requirements and Recommendations
? Minimum Requirements
? Minimum Disk Size
? Using SSD for OSD Journals
? Maximum Recommended Number of Disks
? Monitor Nodes
? RADOS Gateway Nodes
? Operating Ceph Services
? Starting, Stopping, and Restarting Services using Targets
? Starting, Stopping, and Restarting Individual Services
? Identifying Individual Services
? Service Status
? Determining Cluster State
? Checking Cluster Health
? Watching a Cluster
? Checking a Cluster's Usage Stats
? Checking a Cluster's Status
? Checking OSD Status
? Checking for Full OSDs
? Checking Monitor Status
? Checking Placement Group States
? Using the Admin Socket
? Authentication with Cephx
? Authentication Architecture
? Key Management

Section 2: OpenATTIC Management Console
? OpenATTIC Deployment and Configuration
? Deploying OpenATTIC
? OpenATTIC Initial Setup
? OpenATTIC Web User Interface
? Dashboard 

Section 3: Configure and access Block Storage using rbd
? RADOS Block Device
? Block Device Commands
? Mounting and Unmounting RBD Images
? Block Device Snapshots
? rbdmap: Map RBD Devices at Boot Time
? RADOS Block Device Mirroring
? Erasure Coded Pools
? Creating a Sample Erasure Coded Pool
? Erasure Code Profiles
? Erasure Coded Pool and Cache Tiering
? Erasure Coded Pools with RADOS Block Device    

Section 4: Configure and access Object Storage using the Ceph Object Gateway
? RADOS Gateway Manual Installation
? RADOS Gateway Configuration

Section 5: Configure and use File Storage with CephFS
? Supported CephFS Scenarios and Guidance
? Ceph Metadata Server
? Adding a Metadata Server
? Configuring a Metadata Server
? CephFS
? Creating CephFS 

Section 6: Configure access to Block Storage using iSCSI
? iSCSI Block Storage
? General Information about lrbd
? Installation and Configuration
? Installing the ceph_iscsi Patter
? Create RBD Images
? Export RBD Images via iSCSI

Section 7: Configure access to Object and File Storage via NFS
? Installation
? Configuration
? Starting or Restarting NFS Ganesha
? Setting Log Level
? Verifying the Exported NFS Share
? Mounting the Exported NFS Share

Section 8: Monitoring a SES Cluster using OpenATTIC
? Common Web UI Features
? Listing OSD Nodes
? Managing RADOS Block Devices (RBDs)
? Managing Pools
? Listing Nodes
? Managing NFS Ganesha
? Managing iSCSI Gateways
? Viewing the Cluster CRUSH Map
? Managing Object Gateway Users and Bucket