LPIC 3 306: High Availability and Storage Clusters

LPIC 3 Certification in High Availability and Clusters

This expert-level certification validates advanced skills in managing enterprise Linux systems with a focus on high availability, storage cluster management, and resilience in distributed architecture. Candidates develop competencies in load balancing solutions, failover clusters, distributed stora…

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Certificación Internacional LPIC 3 306: High Availability and Storage Clusters
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This expert-level certification validates advanced skills in managing enterprise Linux systems with a focus on high availability, storage cluster management, and resilience in distributed architecture. Candidates develop competencies in load balancing solutions, failover clusters, distributed storage, and both multi-node and single-node configurations.

Upon completing the training, the student will be able to:

  • Implement load balancers using LVS/IPVS, Keepalived, and HAProxy
  • Configure failover clusters with Pacemaker and Corosync
  • Manage replicated storage with DRBD, integrated with Pacemaker
  • Connect to networked storage (SAN) using iSCSI, multipathing, and LVM clustering
  • Implement distributed cluster file systems such as GFS2 and OCFS2
  • Manage distributed storage clusters using GlusterFS and Ceph
  • Set up single-node high availability, including SMART monitoring, UPS integration, and advanced RAID/LVM configurations
  • Handle redundant networking, bonding, VLANs, and basic BGP configuration

To participate in this course, attendees must meet the following specific requirements:

  • Active LPIC‑2 certification (mandatory prerequisite)
  • 3–5 years of hands-on experience in Linux administration within production environments
  • Knowledge of scripting, network administration, RAID/LVM, cluster protocols, and SAN (Storage Area Networks)

Certificación Internacional LPIC 3 306: High Availability and Storage Clusters Applies
Certificación Internacional LPIC 3 306: High Availability and Storage Clusters 60 hours

Learning Methodology

The learning methodology, regardless of the modality (in-person or remote), is based on the development of workshops or labs that lead to the construction of a project, emulating real activities in a company.

The instructor (live), a professional with extensive experience in work environments related to the topics covered, acts as a workshop leader, guiding students' practice through knowledge transfer processes, applying the concepts of the proposed syllabus to the project.

The methodology seeks that the student does not memorize, but rather understands the concepts and how they are applied in a work environment.

As a result of this work, at the end of the training the student will have gained real experience, will be prepared for work and to pass an interview, a technical test, and/or achieve higher scores on international certification exams.

Conditions to guarantee successful results:
  • a. An institution that requires the application of the model through organization, logistics, and strict control over the activities to be carried out by the participants in each training session.
  • b. An instructor located anywhere in the world, who has the required in-depth knowledge, expertise, experience, and outstanding values, ensuring a very high-level knowledge transfer.
  • c. A committed student, with the space, time, and attention required by the training process, and the willingness to focus on understanding how concepts are applied in a work environment, and not memorizing concepts just to take an exam.

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Description

This expert-level certification validates advanced skills in managing enterprise Linux systems with a focus on high availability, storage cluster management, and resilience in distributed architecture. Candidates develop competencies in load balancing solutions, failover clusters, distributed storage, and both multi-node and single-node configurations.

Objectives

Upon completing the training, the student will be able to:

  • Implement load balancers using LVS/IPVS, Keepalived, and HAProxy
  • Configure failover clusters with Pacemaker and Corosync
  • Manage replicated storage with DRBD, integrated with Pacemaker
  • Connect to networked storage (SAN) using iSCSI, multipathing, and LVM clustering
  • Implement distributed cluster file systems such as GFS2 and OCFS2
  • Manage distributed storage clusters using GlusterFS and Ceph
  • Set up single-node high availability, including SMART monitoring, UPS integration, and advanced RAID/LVM configurations
  • Handle redundant networking, bonding, VLANs, and basic BGP configuration

To participate in this course, attendees must meet the following specific requirements:

  • Active LPIC‑2 certification (mandatory prerequisite)
  • 3–5 years of hands-on experience in Linux administration within production environments
  • Knowledge of scripting, network administration, RAID/LVM, cluster protocols, and SAN (Storage Area Networks)

offers

Certificación Internacional LPIC 3 306: High Availability and Storage Clusters Applies
Certificación Internacional LPIC 3 306: High Availability and Storage Clusters 60 hours

Learning Methodology

The learning methodology, regardless of the modality (in-person or remote), is based on the development of workshops or labs that lead to the construction of a project, emulating real activities in a company.

The instructor(live), a professional with extensive experience in work environments related to the topics covered, acts as a workshop leader, guiding students' practice through knowledge transfer processes, applying the concepts of the proposed syllabus to the project.

La metodología persigue que el estudiante "does not memorize", but rather "understands" the concepts and how they are applied in a work environment."

As a result of this work, at the end of the training the student will have gained real experience, will be prepared for work and to pass an interview, a technical test, and/or achieve higher scores on international certification exams.

Conditions to guarantee successful results:
  • a. An institution that requires the application of the model through organization, logistics, and strict control over the activities to be carried out by the participants in each training session.
  • b. An instructor located anywhere in the world, who has the required in-depth knowledge, expertise, experience, and outstanding values, ensuring a very high-level knowledge transfer.
  • c. A committed student, with the space, time, and attention required by the training process, and the willingness to focus on understanding how concepts are applied in a work environment, and not memorizing concepts just to take an exam.

Course Modules

Module 1: Fundamentals of High Availability (HA)

  • Principles of high availability in Linux environments.

  • Risk assessment, recovery time objectives (RTO/RPO), and fault tolerance.

  • Common architectures: active-passive, active-active.

  • Analysis of physical and virtual cluster topologies.

  • Introduction to the Corosync + Pacemaker stack.

  • Basic and advanced configuration of Pacemaker.

  • Definition and management of resources, constraints, and fencing policies.

  • Monitoring and troubleshooting in HA clusters.

  • Configuration of shared file systems (OCFS2, GFS2, NFS).

  • Integrity, locking, and performance considerations.

  • Use of DRBD for real-time storage replication.

  • Management of shared volumes with LVM and LVM2 in cluster mode.

  • Architecture and components of DRBD.

  • Synchronization modes: protocol A, B, and C.

  • Primary-secondary and dual primary configuration.

  • Failure recovery and failover testing.

  • Configuration of redundant storage devices.

  • Implementation of multipathing with Device Mapper and multipath-tools.

  • Error diagnosis and route monitoring.

  • Practices for load balancing and high availability in SAN environments.

  • Configuration of load balancers: LVS, HAProxy.

  • Implementation of virtual IP (VIP) and failover with keepalived.

  • Integration with services such as Apache, Nginx, and PostgreSQL in clusters.

  • Review of state monitoring techniques and automatic response.

  • Use of crm, pcs, and hawk for managing Pacemaker.

  • Task automation with Ansible or custom scripts.

  • Backups and configuration snapshots.

  • Integration with monitoring tools (Prometheus, Nagios).

  • Design of a complete cluster with Pacemaker + DRBD + NFS/OCFS2.

  • Failure simulation and recovery evaluation.

  • Resolution of practical cases.

  • Final review with LPIC-3 306-300 exam-style questions.