Veritas High Availability Fundamentals with VSF 6.0 and VCS 6.0 for Unix
Duration: 5 Days (40 Hours)
Veritas High Availability Fundamentals with VSF 6.0 and VCS 6.0 for Unix Course Overview:
The Symantec High Availability Fundamentals with Veritas Storage Foundation 6.0 and Veritas Cluster Server 6.0 for UNIX course provides comprehensive training on managing storage in a high availability environment, performing cluster management, and conducting basic file system administration.
This instructor-led, hands-on class spans over five days and covers the utilization of Veritas high availability technology to meet data availability objectives within your operations. The course focuses on the implementation of Veritas Cluster Server and Veritas Storage Foundation, which includes Veritas Volume Manager and Veritas File System.
During the course, participants will learn key concepts and techniques for configuring and managing storage resources in a high availability environment. They will gain hands-on experience in deploying Veritas Cluster Server and Veritas Storage Foundation to achieve enhanced data availability and resilience. Additionally, participants will acquire skills in basic file system administration and cluster management tasks.
By the end of the course, participants will have a solid understanding of Veritas high availability solutions, enabling them to effectively implement and manage these technologies to meet their organization’s data availability goals.
Intended Audience:
This course is for UNIX system or network administrators, system engineers, technical support personnel, and system integration/development staff who will be installing, operating, or integrating Veritas Storage Foundation and Veritas Cluster Server.
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Install and configure Veritas Storage Foundation High Availability.
- Configure and manage disks, disk groups, and volumes by using Veritas Volume Manager.
- Perform online file system administration by using Veritas File System tools and commands.
- Identify types of disk failure and resolve disk failures.
- Manage cluster services with Veritas Cluster Server and perform troubleshooting techniques.
- Describe cluster communications, identify faults, and configure failover behavior.
PART 1: Veritas Storage Foundation 6.0: Install and Configure
Virtual Objects
Operating system storage devices and virtual data storage
Volume manager storage objects
VxVM volume layouts and RAID levels
Installing Storage Foundation and Accessing SF Interfaces
Preparing to install Storage Foundation
Installing Storage Foundation
Storage Foundation resources
Storage Foundation user interfaces
Getting Started with Veritas Operations Manager (VOM)
VOM overview
Installing the VOM management server
Installing additional functionality using VOM add-ons
Changing Storage Foundation hosts to managed hosts
Creating a Volume and File System
Preparing disks and disk groups for volume creation
Creating a volume and adding a file system
Displaying disk and disk group information
Displaying volume configuration information
Removing volumes, disks, and disk groups
Working with Volumes with Different Layouts
Volume layouts
Creating volumes with various layouts
Creating a layered volume
Allocating storage for volumes
Using the Storage Provisioning add-on in VOM
Making Configuration Changes
Administering mirrored volumes
Resizing a volume and a file system
Moving data between systems
Renaming disks and disk groups
Managing disk group versions and formats
Administering File Systems
Benefits of using Veritas File System
Using Veritas File System commands
Logging in VxFS
Controlling file system fragmentation
Using thin provisioning disk arrays
PART 2: Veritas Cluster Server 6.0 for UNIX: Install
High Availability Concepts
High availability concepts
Clustering concepts
HA application services
Clustering prerequisites
VCS Building Blocks
VCS terminology
Cluster communication
VCS architecture
Preparing a Site for VCS Implementation
Hardware requirements and recommendations
Software requirements and recommendations
Preparing installation information
Preparing to upgrade
Installing VCS
Using the Common Product Installer
VCS configuration files
Viewing the default VCS configuration
Veritas Operations Manager
Other installation considerations
Upgrading to 6.0
VCS Operations
Common VCS tools and operations
Service group operations
Resource operations
Using the VCS Simulator
VCS Configuration Methods
Starting and stopping VCS
Overview of configuration methods
Online configuration
Offline configuration
Controlling access to VCS
Preparing Services for High Availability
Preparing applications for VCS
Performing one-time configuration tasks
Testing the application service
Stopping and migrating an application service
Collecting configuration information
Online Configuration
Online service group configuration procedure
Adding resources
Solving common configuration errors
Testing the service group
Offline Configuration
Offline configuration procedures
Solving offline configuration problems
Testing the service group
Configuring Notification
Notification overview
Configuring notification
Using triggers for notification
Handling Resource Faults
VCS response to resource faults
Determining failover duration
Controlling fault behavior
Recovering from resource faults
Fault notification and event handling
Intelligent Monitoring Framework
IMF overview
IMF configuration
Faults and failover with intelligent monitoring
Cluster Communications
VCS communications review
Cluster membership
Cluster interconnect configuration
Joining the cluster membership
Changing the interconnect configuration
I/O Fencing
Data protection requirements
I/O fencing concepts and components
I/O fencing operations
I/O fencing implementation
Configuring I/O fencing
Coordination Point Server
Coordination point concepts
Installing and configuring CP servers
Configuring client clusters
CPS administration
Coordination point agent
Knowledge of UNIX system administration
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- Team building
- Immediate application
Training Exclusives
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- Practice Labs.
- Get Trained by Certified Trainers.
- Access to the recordings of your class sessions for 90 days.
- Digital courseware
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