When it comes to high availability, Novell Cluster Services has long been known as a leader in its field. Now, backed by the power of OES2 SP2 Linux, it has progressed to the next level. NCS for Linux has all the features of NCS for NetWare and adds the ability to cluster many common Linux services and Linux only OES features. With this change of platform comes a different mindset for installation, configuration and management. OES2 SP2 also saw a major rewrite of NCS, improving performance, reducing server load and reducing resource failover times between nodes.

This three-day, hands on, course will take you through the fundamentals of successfully creating and maintaining a cluster on OES2 SP2 Linux. During the course you will install and configure your own three node cluster, carrying out manual and autoYaST node builds. You will learn how to configure a wide variety of cluster resources, including:

• NSS with NCP, CIFS and NFS client access for file sharing
• Dynamic Storage Technology
• Novell iPrint
• Novell eDirectory integrated DNS
• Novell eDirectory integrated DHCP
• EVMS/Linux filesystem based resources

As part of the course, you will learn best practice methodologies for cluster deployment, maintenance and troubleshooting. Real world deployment scenarios such as SAN multipathing and network card bonding (teaming) to further improve cluster resilience will be covered.

The course presents you with a great opportunity to learn from NDS8 consultants Tim Heywood and Mark Robinson who have considerable real world experience in this field.