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<!DOCTYPE FL_Course SYSTEM "https://www.flane.de/dtd/fl_course095.dtd"><?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="https://portal.flane.ch/css/xml-course.xsl"?><course productid="34876" language="en" source="https://portal.flane.ch/swisscom/en/xml-course/suse-lhn201" lastchanged="2025-08-29T17:55:46+02:00" parent="https://portal.flane.ch/swisscom/en/xml-courses"><title>Longhorn Deployment and Operations</title><productcode>LHN201</productcode><vendorcode>SU</vendorcode><vendorname>SUSE</vendorname><fullproductcode>SU-LHN201</fullproductcode><version>1.5</version><objective>&lt;p&gt;Attendees will be taught the following concepts and skills: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;An Introduction to Longhorn&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Installation of Longhorn via Helm and as a Rancher Application&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Management of Nodes&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Management of Disks and Volume Replicas&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Logging and Monitoring of Clusters&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Backing up and Restoring of Volumes&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Disaster Recovery Volumes&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Upgrading Longhorn Manager and Engine&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;</objective><essentials>&lt;p&gt;An understanding of Kubernetes objects and resources is needed for this course. This knowledge can be gained through the &lt;span class=&quot;attentionbbcode&quot; title=&quot;course: SU-KUB201&quot;&gt;!&lt;/span&gt; course. Linux command line experience is helpful.&lt;/p&gt;</essentials><audience>&lt;p&gt;This course is designed for system administrators and other persons responsible for provisioning and administering Kubernetes clusters with Rancher Manager for Rancher Prime.&lt;/p&gt;</audience><contents>&lt;h5&gt;Section 1: Course Introduction&lt;/h5&gt;&lt;h5&gt;Section 2: Introduction to Longhorn&lt;/h5&gt;&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Introduction to Longhorn&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;High-level Overview of Longhorn Features&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Overview of the Longhorn Architecture&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;h5&gt;Section 3: Install Longhorn&lt;/h5&gt;&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Installation Requirements&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Installation with Helm&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Installation as a Rancher Application&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Longhorn Web UI Features&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;h5&gt;Section 4: Node Management&lt;/h5&gt;&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Enable or Disable Nodes&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Add a new Node in Cluster&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Node Maintenance&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Remove a Node from Cluster&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;h5&gt;Section 5: Disk and Volumes Management&lt;/h5&gt;&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Add Individual Disk Partition&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Remove Disk Storage&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Add LVM Storage&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Create a Volume&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Use Trim to Reclaim Storage Space&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Resize Volume&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Tune Storage Performance by Data Locality&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;h5&gt;Section 6: High Availability in Longhorn&lt;/h5&gt;&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Define Replica Counts and Location&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Replica Balancing for even Distribution of Resources&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;h5&gt;Section 7: Monitor and Troubleshoot Longhorn&lt;/h5&gt;&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Install Prometheus and Grafana for Monitoring Longhorn&amp;rsquo;s Vital Metrics&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Integrate Longhorn Metrics with the Rancher Monitoring System&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Configure Longhorn Alert Rules&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Recover from Failures&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;h5&gt;Section 8: Longhorn Backup and Restore&lt;/h5&gt;&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Manually Create a Snapshot of a Volume&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Restore a Volume from a Snapshot Manually&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Delete a Volume Snapshot&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Work with Recurring Volume Snapshot&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Manually Create a Backup of a Volume&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Restore a Volume from a Backup&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Work with Recurring Volume Backups&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Work with Disaster Recovery Volumes&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;h5&gt;Section 9: Upgrade Longhorn&lt;/h5&gt;&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Upgrade Longhorn Manager&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Upgrade Longhorn Engine&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;</contents><objective_plain>Attendees will be taught the following concepts and skills: 


- An Introduction to Longhorn
- Installation of Longhorn via Helm and as a Rancher Application
- Management of Nodes
- Management of Disks and Volume Replicas
- Logging and Monitoring of Clusters
- Backing up and Restoring of Volumes
- Disaster Recovery Volumes
- Upgrading Longhorn Manager and Engine</objective_plain><essentials_plain>An understanding of Kubernetes objects and resources is needed for this course. This knowledge can be gained through the (!)  course. Linux command line experience is helpful.</essentials_plain><audience_plain>This course is designed for system administrators and other persons responsible for provisioning and administering Kubernetes clusters with Rancher Manager for Rancher Prime.</audience_plain><contents_plain>Section 1: Course Introduction

Section 2: Introduction to Longhorn


- Introduction to Longhorn
- High-level Overview of Longhorn Features
- Overview of the Longhorn Architecture
Section 3: Install Longhorn


- Installation Requirements
- Installation with Helm
- Installation as a Rancher Application
- Longhorn Web UI Features
Section 4: Node Management


- Enable or Disable Nodes
- Add a new Node in Cluster
- Node Maintenance
- Remove a Node from Cluster
Section 5: Disk and Volumes Management


- Add Individual Disk Partition
- Remove Disk Storage
- Add LVM Storage
- Create a Volume
- Use Trim to Reclaim Storage Space
- Resize Volume
- Tune Storage Performance by Data Locality
Section 6: High Availability in Longhorn


- Define Replica Counts and Location
- Replica Balancing for even Distribution of Resources
Section 7: Monitor and Troubleshoot Longhorn


- Install Prometheus and Grafana for Monitoring Longhorn’s Vital Metrics
- Integrate Longhorn Metrics with the Rancher Monitoring System
- Configure Longhorn Alert Rules
- Recover from Failures
Section 8: Longhorn Backup and Restore


- Manually Create a Snapshot of a Volume
- Restore a Volume from a Snapshot Manually
- Delete a Volume Snapshot
- Work with Recurring Volume Snapshot
- Manually Create a Backup of a Volume
- Restore a Volume from a Backup
- Work with Recurring Volume Backups
- Work with Disaster Recovery Volumes
Section 9: Upgrade Longhorn


- Upgrade Longhorn Manager
- Upgrade Longhorn Engine</contents_plain><duration unit="d" days="2">2 days</duration><pricelist><price country="US" currency="USD">1600.00</price><price country="CA" currency="CAD">2210.00</price></pricelist><miles/></course>