GlusterFS Storage Administration

This course covers installation, brick management, volume management, Geo-Replication, advanced administration, snapshotting, and troubleshooting.

Module 1: INTRODUCTION

• GlusterFS Overview
• GlusterFS Internals
• Elastic Hash Algorithm
• GlusterFS History
• Example Use Case: Virtualization Servers
• Terminology
• Architectural Overview
• Features
• Comparison to Other Clustered Filesystems
• Scaling
• Using screen
• Running Commands on Multiple Systems

Module 2: INSTALLATION

• Gluster Package Installation
• Identifying Initial Bricks
• Creating Bricks
• Formatting and Mount Bricks
• Setting up the GlusterFS Volume

Module 3: VOLUME TYPES

• Brick Layouts and Standards
• Volume Types
• Distributed Volume
• Replicated Volume
• Striped Volume
• Sharded Volume
• Dispersed Volume
• Distributed Replicate Volume
• Distributed Striped Replicate Volume
• Distributed Striped Volume
• Striped Replicated Volume
• Distributed Dispersed Volume

Module 4: GEO-REPLICATION

• Geo-replication Overview
• Geo-replication Deployment Scenarios
• Environment Requirements
• Master/slave Architecture
• Setting up Geo-replication
• Cascading Geo-replication
• Distributed Geo-replication
• Administration

Module 5: MANAGING VOLUMES

• Transports
• Resizing Volumes
• Migrating Data
• Removing Volumes
• Self-Healing
• Bitrot Detection

Module 6: GLUSTERFS CLIENTS

• GlusterFS Client Support
• FUSE client
• FUSE mounting volumes
• NFS client
• The Network Lock Manager
• CIFS/SMB Client

Module 7: ACLS AND QUOTAS

• POSIX ACLs
• Listing and Setting ACLs
• Removing ACLs
• GlusterFS Quota Support
• Setting and Displaying Disk Limits
• Memory Cache Size and Alert Time

Module 8: IP FAILOVER

• CTDB
• CTDB Prerequisites
• Configuring CTDB
• Verifying CTDB Setup with Samba

Module 9: SNAPSHOTS

• Prerequisites
• Snapshot Features
• Managing Snapshots
• Managing Snapshots
• Managing Snapshots

Module 10: TROUBLESHOOTING

• Volume Status
• Statedump
• GlusterFS logs
• Geo-replication Logs
• Troubleshooting Geo-replication
• Troubleshooting NFS

• Module 1 LAB TASKS
  • Screen Basics
  • Running Commands on Multiple Hosts
• Module 2 LAB TASKS
  • GlusterFS QuickStart
• Module 3 LAB TASKS
  • Creating Volumes
• Module 4 LAB TASKS
  • Setting up GlusterFS Geo-replication
• Module 5 LAB TASKS
  • Managing GlusterFS Volumes
• Module 6 LAB TASKS
  • Setting up GlusterFS Clients
• Module 7 LAB TASKS
  • Setting up ACLs and Quotas
• Module 8 LAB TASKS
  • Setting up and configuring CTDB
• Module 9 LAB TASKS
  • Using and managing GlusterFS snapshots
• Module 10 LAB TASKS
  • Troubleshooting GlusterFS

An intermediate knowledge of the Linux operating system is required. The equivalent knowledge can be found in the Linux Fundamentals and Enterprise Linux Systems Administration courses.