LPIC3-306 High Availability Clustering Exam Syllabus 2021

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  LPIC3-306 Exam Syllabus 2021
   
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22 361 High Availability Cluster Management
13 362 High Availability Cluster Storage
13 363 High Availability Distributed Storage
12 364 Single Node High Availability
   
   
22 361 High Availability Cluster Management
6 351.1 Virtualization Concepts and Theory
8 361.2 Load Balanced Clusters
8 361.3 Failover Clusters
13 362 High Availability Cluster Storage
6 362.1 DRBD
3 362.2 Cluster Storage Access
4 352.4 Container Orchestration Platforms
13 363 High Availability Distributed Storage
5 363.1 GlusterFS Storage Clusters
8 363.2 Ceph Storage Clusters
12 364 Single Node High Availability
2 364.1 Hardware and Resource High Availability
2 364.2 Advanced RAID
3 364.3 Advanced LVM
5 364.4 Network High Availability
   
   
   
   
  361 High Availability Cluster Management
  351.1 Virtualization Concepts and Theory
  Weight: 6
  Description: Candidates should understand the properties and design approaches of
  high availability clusters.
  Key Knowledge Areas:
  • Understand the goals of High Availability and Site Reliability Engineering
  • Understand common cluster architectures
  • Understand recovery and cluster reorganization mechanisms
  • Design an appropriate cluster architecture for a given purpose
  • Understand application aspects of high availability
  • Understand operational considerations of high availability
  Partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:
  • Active/Passive Cluster
  • Active/Active Cluster
  • Failover Cluster
  • Load Balanced Cluster
  • Shared-Nothing Cluster
  • Shared-Disk Cluster
  • Cluster resources
  • Cluster services
  • Quorum
  • Fencing (Node and Resource Level Fencing)
  • Split brain
  • Redundancy
  • Mean Time Before Failure (MTBF)
  • Mean Time To Repair (MTTR)
  • Service Level Agreement (SLA)
  • Disaster Recovery
  • State Handling
  • Replication
  • Session handling
   
   
  361.2 Load Balanced Clusters
  Weight: 8
  Description: Candidates should know how to install, configure, maintain and troubles-
  hoot LVS. This includes the configuration and use of keepalived and ldirectord. Candi-
  dates should further be able to install, configure, maintain and troubleshoot HAProxy.
  Key Knowledge Areas:
  Understand the concepts of LVS / IPVS
  • Understand the basics of VRRP
  • Configure keepalived
  • Configure ldirectord
  • Configure backend server networking
  • Understand HAProxy
  • Configure HAProxy
  Partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:
  • ipvsadm
  • syncd
  • LVS Forwarding (NAT, Direct Routing, Tunneling, Local Node)
  • connection scheduling algorithms
  • keepalived configuration file
  • ldirectord configuration file
  • genhash
  • HAProxy configuration file
  • load balancing algorithms
  • ACLs
   
   
  361.3 Failover Clusters
  Weight: 8
  Description: Candidates should have experience in the installation, configuration,
  maintenance and troubleshooting of a Pacemaker cluster. This includes the use of
  Corosync. The focus is on Pacemaker 2.x for Corosync 2.x.
  Key Knowledge Areas:
  • Understand the architecture and components of Pacemaker (CIB, CRMd, PEngine,
  LRMd, DC, STONITHd)
  • Manage Pacemaker cluster configurations
  • Understand Pacemaker resource classes (OCF, LSB, Systemd, Service, STONITH,
  Nagios)
  • Manage Pacermaker resources
  • Manage resource rules and constraints (location, order, colocation).
  • Manage advanced resource features (templates, groups, clone resources, mul-
  ti-state resources)
  • Obtain node information and manage node health
  • Manage quorum and fencing in a Pacermaker cluster
  • Configure the Split Brain Detector on shared storage
  • Manage Pacemaker using pcs
  • Manage Pacemaker using crmsh
  • Configure and management of corosync in conjunction with Pacemaker
  • Awareness of Pacemaker ACLs
  • Awareness of other cluster engines (OpenAIS, Heartbeat, CMAN)
  Partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:
  • pcs
  • crm
  • crm_mon
  • crm_verify
  • crm_simulate
  • crm_shadow
  • crm_resource
  crm_attribute
  • crm_node
  • crm_standby
  • cibadmin
  • corosync.conf
  • authkey
  • corosync-cfgtool
  • corosync-cmapctl
  • corosync-quorumtool
  • stonith_admin
  • stonith
  • ocf:pacemaker:ping
  • ocf:pacermaker:NodeUtilization
  • ocf:pacermaker:ocf:SysInfo
  ocf:pacemaker:HealthCPU
  • ocf:pacemaker:HealthSMART
  • sbd
   
   
   
  362 High Availability Cluster Storage
  362.1 DRBD
  Weight: 6
  Description: Candidates are expected to have the experience and knowledge to ins-
  tall, configure, maintain and troubleshoot DRBD devices. This includes integration with
  Pacemaker. DRBD configuration of version 9.0.x is covered..
  Key Knowledge Areas:
  • Understand the DRBD architecture
  • Understand DRBD resources, states and replication modes
  • Configure DRBD disks and devices
  • Configure DRBD networking connections and meshes
  • Configure DRBD automatic recovery and error handling
  • Configure DRBD quorum and handlers for split brain and fencing
  • Manage DRBD using drbdadm
  • Understand the principles of drbdsetup and drbdmeta
  • Restore and verify the integrity of a DRBD device after an outage
  • Integrate DRBD with Pacemaker
  • Understand the architecture and features of LINSTOR
  Partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:
  • Protocol A, B and C
  • Primary, Secondary
  • Three-way replication
  • drbd kernel module
  • drbdadm
  • drbdmon
  • drbdsetup
  • drbdmeta
  • /etc/drbd.conf
  • /etc/drbd.d/
  • /proc/drbd
   
   
   
  362.2 Cluster Storage Access
  Weight: 3
  Description: Candidates should be able to connect a Linux node to remote block
  storage. This includes understanding common SAN technology and architectures,
  including management of iSCSI, as well as configuring multipathing for high availability
  and using LVM on a clustered storage.
  Key Knowledge Areas:
  Understand the concepts of Storage Area Networks
  • Understand the concepts of Fibre Channel, including Fibre Channel Toplogies
  • Understand and manage iSCSI targets and initiators
  • Understand and configure Device Mapper Multipath I/O (DM-MPIO)
  • Understand the concept of a Distributed Lock Manager (DLM)
  • Understand and manage clustered LVM
  • Manage DLM and LVM with Pacemaker
  Partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:
  • tgtadm
  • targets.conf
  • iscsiadm
  • iscsid.conf
  • /etc/multipath.conf
  • multipath
  • kpartx
  • pvmove
  • vgchange
  • lvchange
   
   
   
  352.4 Container Orchestration Platforms
  Weight: 4
  Description: Candidates should be able to install, maintain and troubleshoot GFS2
  and OCFS2 filesystems. This includes awareness of other clustered filesystems availa-
  ble on Linux.
  Key Knowledge Areas:
  • Understand the principles of cluster file systems and distributed file systems
  Understand the Distributed Lock Manager
  • Create, maintain and troubleshoot GFS2 file systems in a cluster
  • Create, maintain and troubleshoot OCFS2 file systems in a cluster
  • Awareness of the O2CB cluster stack
  • Awareness of other commonly used clustered file systems, such as AFS and Lustre
  Partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:
  • mkfs.gfs2
  • mount.gfs2
  • fsck.gfs2
  • gfs2_grow
  • gfs2_edit
  • gfs2_jadd
  • mkfs.ocfs2
  • mount.ocfs2
  • fsck.ocfs2
  • tunefs.ocfs2
  mounted.ocfs2
  • o2info
  • o2image
   
   
   
  363 High Availability Distributed Storage
  363.1 GlusterFS Storage Clusters
  Weight: 5
  Description: Candidates should be able to manage and maintain a GlusterFS storage
  cluster.
  Key Knowledge Areas:
  • Understand the architecture and components of GlusterFS
  • Manage GlusterFS peers, trusted storage pools, bricks and volumes
  • Mount and use an existing GlusterFS
  • Configure high availability aspects of GlusterFS
  • Scale up a GlusterFS cluster
  Replace failed bricks
  • Recover GlusterFS from a physical media failure
  • Restore and verify the integrity of a GlusterFS cluster after an outage
  • Awareness of GNFS
  Partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:
  • gluster (including relevant subcommands)
   
   
  363.2 Ceph Storage Clusters
  Weight: 8
  Description: Candidates should be able to manage and maintain a Ceph Cluster. This
  includes the configuration of RGW, RDB devices and CephFS.
  Key Knowledge Areas:
  • Understand the architecture and components of Ceph
  • Manage OSD, MGR, MON and MDS
  • Understand and manage placement groups and pools
  • Understand storage backends (FileStore and BlueStore)
  • Initialize a Ceph cluster
  • Create and manage Rados Block Devices
  • Create and manage CephFS volumes, including snapshots
  • Mount and use an existing CephFS
  • Understand and adjust CRUSH maps
  Configure high availability aspects of Ceph
  • Scale up a Ceph cluster
  • Restore and verify the integrity of a Ceph cluster after an outage
  • Understand key concepts of Ceph updates, including update order, tunables and
  features
  Partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:
  • ceph-deploy (including relevant subcommands)
  • ceph.conf
  • ceph (including relevant subcommands)
  • rados (including relevant subcommands)
  • rdb (including relevant subcommands)
  • cephfs (including relevant subcommands)
  • ceph-volume (including relevant subcommands)
  • ceph-authtool
  • ceph-bluestore-tool
  • crushtool
   
   
   
  364 Single Node High Availability
  364.1 Hardware and Resource High Availability
  Weight: 2
  Description: Candidates should be able to monitor a local node for potential hard-
  ware failures and resource shortages.
  Key Knowledge Areas:
  • Understand and monitor S.M.A.R.T values using smartmontools, including triggering
  frequent disk checks
  • Configure system shutdown at specific UPC events
  • Configure monit for alerts in case of resource exhaustion
  Partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:
  • smartctl
  • /etc/smartd.conf
  • smartd
  • nvme-cli
  apcupsd
  • apctest
  • monit
   
   
   
  364.2 Advanced RAID
  Weight: 2
  Description: Candidates should be able to manage software raid devices on Linux.
  This includes advanced features such as partitionable RAIDs and RAID containers as
  well as recovering RAID arrays after a failure.
  Key Knowledge Areas:
  • Manage RAID devices using various raid levels, including hot spare discs, partitiona-
  ble RAIDs and RAID containers
  • Add and remove devices from an existing RAID
  • Change the RAID level of an existing device
  • Recover a RAID device after a failure
  • Understand various metadata formats and RAID geometries
  • Understand availability and performance properties of various raid levels
  • Configure mdadm monitoring and reporting
  Partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:
  • mdadm
  • /proc/mdstat
  • /proc/sys/dev/raid/*
   
   
   
  364.3 Advanced LVM
  Weight: 3
  Description: Candidates should be able to configure LVM volumes. This includes ma-
  naging LVM snapshot, pools and RAIDs.
  Key Knowledge Areas:
  • Understand and manage LVM, including linear and striped volumes
  • Extend, grow, shrink and move LVM volumes
  • Understand and manage LVM snapshots
  • Understand and manage LVM thin and thick pools
  • Understand and manage LVM RAIDs
  Partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:
  • /etc/lvm/lvm.conf
  • pvcreate
  • pvdisplay
  • pvmove
  • pvremove
  • pvresize
  • vgcreate
  • vgdisplay
  • vgreduce
  • lvconvert
  • lvcreate
  • lvdisplay
  • lvextend
  • lvreduce
  lvresize
   
   
   
  364.4 Network High Availability
  Weight: 5
  Description: Candidates should be able to configure redundant networking connec-
  tions and manage VLANs. Furthermore, candidates should have a basic understanding
  of BGP.
  Key Knowledge Areas:
  • Understand and configure bonding network interface
  • Network bond modes and algorithms (active-backup, blance-tlb, balance-alb,
  802.3ad, balance-rr, balance-xor, broadcast)
  • Configure switch configuration for high availability, including RSTP
  • Configure VLANs on regular and bonded network interfaces
  • Persist bonding and VLAN configuration
  • Understand the principle of autonomous systems and BGP to manage external
  redundant uplinks
  • Awareness of traffic shaping and control capabilities of Linux
  Partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:
  • bonding.ko (including relevant module options)
  • /etc/network/interfaces
  • /etc/sysconfig/networking-scripts/ifcfg-*
  • /etc/systemd/network/*.network
  • /etc/systemd/network/*.netdev
  • nmcli
  • /sys/class/net/bonding_masters
  • /sys/class/net/bond*/bonding/miimon
  • /sys/class/net/bond*/bonding/slaves
  • ifenslave
  • ip
   
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