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SGI Altix System Administration I (SLES based)

Languages: English  |  Available as: Classroom, Virtual
Course Length: 4.5 Days

This course provides the experienced Linux® user with the skills and information needed to administer the SGI Altix 3000/4000 family of servers and superclusters. Lab exercises are included to prepare students for the actual work environment.

** Note ** This class is specifically for customers who are using the SuSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) based Altix Environment . The class is based on the SLES10 with the additional SGI ProPack 5 software.

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Topics Covered

  • Overview of SGI Altix 3000/4000 hardware
  • SLES Linux™ Environment
  • SGI Altix SLES-10 installation with XFS® root
  • SGI ProPack™ feature-specific installation
  • SGI Altix SLES-10 upgrade procedure
  • EFI shell and boot options
  • Startup and shutdown
  • MBR, GPT, and SGI partition tables
  • parted disk partitioning tool
  • XFS filesystems (mkfs.xfs) and filesystem management
  • XVM - SGI Volume Manager
  • Building concat, stripe, and mirror filesystems
  • Setup for Performance Co-Pilot™
  • SGI Numatools
  • SGI Array Services
  • SGI Ethernet setup
  • Installing SGI specific kernel modules
  • Intel compiler and module environment

Objectives

Upon completion of this course, the student should be able to:

  • Plan and install SGI ProPack and SuSE Linux Enterprise Server
  • Plan and perform a software upgrade
  • Configure EFI shell boot options and elilo.conf
  • Startup (EFI startup) and shut down the Altix 3000 family server.
  • Partition and build a system disk
  • Build multipartition (concat, stripe, mirror) filesystems with XVM
  • Setup and use Performance Co-Pilot (PCP)
  • Install SGI specific kernel modules
  • Install the Intel compiler environment modules
  • Setup an array for SGI MPI applications
  • Use taskset, dplace and cpusets to pin an application

Target Audience
Experienced Linux users who wish to administer an SGI Altix 3000/4000 family server or supercluster.

Prerequisites

  • Training and experience administering a Linux system
  • Introduction to Linux course
  • Linux System Administration course

Accreditation
This course is part of the Accreditation for Continued Excellence (ACE) program. An optional ACE examination is offered during the afternoon of the last day of class. The examination period follows the completion of the standard coursework.

There is no additional charge to take this examination on the last day of class. If you wait to take the examination at a later time, an examination charge will be accessed per the conditions of the ACE program.

If you plan to take the examination on the last day of class, ensure that your travel arrangements allow for up to two (2) hours in the afternoon to complete the examination.

The virtual classroom course provides remote access to an SGI Customer Education instructor and SGI lab equipment.

You will view presentation materials over the Web, listen to and interact with your instructor and classmates via teleconference, and perform lab exercises on a remote system in one of our computer labs.

Course Sequences

This course is featured in the following sequences

Linux® System Admin (SLES)