Sun Fire Midrange Server Administration

QA Ltd.
Aberdeen, Birmingham, Bristol, Edinburgh, Exeter, Glasgow, Leeds, London, Manchester, Slough, United Kingdom

Course Format: Classroom | E-learning | Virtual Class | Online | On-site | Blended | Self-paced

Course Description:

'' The Sun Fire Midrange Server Administration course provides students with the information needed to configure, monitor, and manage the Sun Fire V1280/E2900, 3800, 4800/E4900, 4810, and 6800/E6900 midrange servers. Additionally, students implement concurrent maintenance and high-availability strategies, and use firmware tools and applications to assess a system.



Who Can Benefit

Students who can benefit from this course are enterprise system administrators, platform and domain administrators, system administrators, and anyone responsible for supporting midrange networked database servers.



Prerequisites


To succeed fully in this course, students should have:

Detailed knowledge of the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS) and UNIX
Knowledge of backup and storage
Detailed knowledge of network administration
Knowledge of Sun Management Center 3.0 software
Experience administrating workgroup and enterprise servers

Delegates will learn how to


Understand system controller administration, set up and configure the system controller, and navigate platform and domain shells
Perform common configuration and administrative tasks
Create and manage segments and domains
Configure a system for multipathed I/O and dynamically manage system resources


Course outline


Module 1 �Introducing the Sun Fire Midrange Servers



List the functional goals of the Sun Fire midrange server product line

Locate Sun Microsystems web sites containing important Sun Fire midrange server information

List the server models that comprise the Sun Fire server product line

Identify the disks, disk arrays, and backup devices that the Sun Fire midrange servers support

Describe the key features of each Sun Fire midrange server model

Power on and off each Sun Fire midrange server



Module 2 �Sun Fire Midrange Server Components



Identify the Sun Fire midrange physical resources by location and function

Locate and describe the function of the Sun Fire midrange server system controller boards

Access the system controller platform shell li>



Module 3 �Platform Configuration



Describe how to use Lights-Out Management (LOM) to perform Sun Fire V1280/E2900 server platform administrative functions

Describe how to display and manage Sun Fire V1280/E2900 server controller hardware attributes by using LOM shell commands

Describe how to access and manage the Sun Fire V1280/E2900 server system controller

Describe how to use the LOM shell to manage Sun Fire V1280/E2900 server Time-of-Day (TOD)

Monitor the Sun Fire V1280/E2900 server platform by using LOM shell commands

Power-cycle the Sun Fire V1280/E2900 server by using LOM shell commands and by using the front panel power rocker switch

Identify the platform shell commands you can use to display Sun Fire 3800, 4800/E4900, 4810, and 6800/E6900 server system information, set up system parameters, and test system hardware

Describe three methods you can use to connect to the system controller shells

Describe how to initiate a remote connection with Secure Shell (SSH)

Describe how to navigate between shells on the Sun Fire 3800, 4800/E4900, 4810, and 6800/E6900 servers

Configure the platform and system controller by using the platform shell

Configure the platform TOD

Display and change system controller parameters by using the platform shell Li>Describe how to view the system controller message logs

Describe how to manage the system controller for configuration and reboot

Describe how to manage the system controller for failover operation

Describe how to use system controller commands to monitor the platform

Describe how to power on and off the system components

Describe how to update the platform firmware

Describe how to back up and restore a system controller

Describe how to use SSH to secure the Sun Fire midrange server system controller



Module 4 �Domain Configuration



Describe the benefits of dividing the Sun Fire midrange servers into multiple segments and domains

Describe the effects of system segmenting and multiple domains

Create a system configuration consisting of multiple segments and domains

Configure an access control list (ACL) for a domain

Define passwords for a domain

Correlate OpenBoot programmable read-only memory (PROM) device tree entries to the physical system components of the Sun Fire midrange servers

Determine how the Solaris OS references system components

Identify the steps required to configure devices in the Solaris OS

Identify Solaris OS support utilities

Navigate between shell environments



Module 5 �Multipathing I/O Management



Describe how Sun StorEdge Traffic Manager software uses multipath access to I/O devices to provide a high level of disk availability and performance

Describe the purpose of Sun StorEdge Traffic Manager software

Identify other products that use multipathing I/O to solve path failover and provide higher path bandwidth

Identify I/O software and hardware devices that Sun StorEdge Traffic Manager software supports

List terms and acronyms that are associated with Sun StorEdge Traffic Manager software

Describe how Sun StorEdge Traffic Manager software works

Describe how Sun StorEdge Traffic Manager uses a device tree to map supported devices

Describe how to display path states and Small Computer System Interface (SCSI) device attributes

Configure Sun StorEdge Traffic Manager software for installation, post-installation setup and verification, and domain configuration verification

Edit the Sun StorEdge Traffic Manager software configuration file to enable or disable Sun StorEdge Traffic Manager software and for load balancing

Describe how to back up the Sun StorEdge Traffic Manager software before performing an upgrade to the operating system

Describe how Sun StorEdge Traffic Manager software does automatic path discovery

Describe how to use Sun StorEdge Traffic Manager software to manage and get information about multiplexed devices

Describe how Sun StorEdge Traffic Manager software manages automatic failover

Describe the purpose of Internet Protocol Multipathing (IPMP)

List three different methods of combining Ethernet links to increase throughput or availability

List the hardware and software requirements for configuring IPMP

List the rules you must follow when you configure an IPMP group

Describe how IPMP works

Describe the parameters contained in the multipathing configuration file

Describe the new commands available for configuring IPMP

Describe the multiple components of an IPMP configuration

Describe an IPMP implementation

Describe how to verify IPMP load spreading

Automate IPMP configuration when using Sun StorEdge Traffic Manager software with Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4)

Configure IPMP using IPv6

Describe how automatic IPMP failover and recovery is supported by dynamic reconfiguration



Module 6 �Dynamic Reconfiguration



Describe the benefits of dynamic reconfiguration (DR)

Analyze domain configuration status using DR

Identify the steps required for removing and installing system boards using DR

Move a system board between domains using DR

Describe the benefits of Reconfiguration Coordination Manager (RCM)



Module 7 �Sun Fire Midrange Systems Management Through Sun MC 3.x Software



Describe the architecture behind Sun Management ...''

Elements of this syllabus are subject to change.

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