COURSE DESCRIPTION
The Symantec High Availability Fundamentals course is designed for the IT professional who wants an overview of the Symantec Storage Foundation and Symantec Cluster
Server products.
This five-day, instructor-led, hands-on class is a condensed version of the four day Symantec Storage Foundation 6.x for UNIX: Administration Fundamentals course and the five day Symantec Cluster Server 6.x for UNIX: Administration
Fundamentals course. It covers a subset of the topics in those two courses.
Delivery Method
Instructor-led Training (ILT)
Duration
Five days
Course Objectives
By the completion of this course, you will be able to:
Install and configure Symantec Storage Foundation High
Availability.
Configure and manage disks, disk groups, and volumes.
Administer file systems.
Create a VCS cluster.
Configure service groups and resources.
Implement and verify failover and failback capability for application, storage, and network services.
Who Should Attend
This course is for UNIX system administrators, system engineers, technical support personnel, network/SAN administrators, and systems integration/development staff who want an overview of the Symantec Storage Foundation and Symantec Cluster Server products..
Prerequisites
Knowledge of UNIX system administration.
Hands-On
This course includes practical lab exercises that enable you to test your new skills and begin to transfer those skills into your working environment.
PART 1: Symantec Storage Foundation 6.x for
UNIX: Administration Fundamentals
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
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
Allocating storage for volumes
Making Configuration Changes
Administering mirrored volumes
Resizing a volume and a file system
Moving data between systems
Renaming VxVM objects
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
Managing Devices within the VxVM Architecture
Managing components in the VxVM architecture
Discovering disk devices
Managing multiple paths to disk devices in the U.S. and other countries. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners. Specifications and product offerings are subject to change without notice.
PART 2: Symantec Cluster Server 6.x for UNIX:
Administration Fundamentals
High Availability Concepts
High availability concepts
Clustering concepts
HA application services
Clustering prerequisites
High availability references
VCS Building Blocks
VCS terminology
Cluster communication
VCS architecture
Preparing a Site for VCS
Hardware and software requirements
Hardware and software recommendations
Preparing installation information
Installing VCS
Using the Common Product Installer
VCS configuration files
Cluster management tools
VCS Operations
Common VCS tools and operations
Service group operations
Resource operations
VCS Configuration Methods
Starting and stopping VCS
Overview of configuration methods
Online configuration
Controlling access to VCS
Preparing Services for VCS
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
Adding resources
Solving common configuration errors
Testing the service group
Offline Configuration
Offline configuration examples
Offline configuration procedures
Solving offline configuration problems
Testing the service group
Configuring Notification
Notification overview
Configuring notification
Overview of triggers
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
Cluster Communications
VCS communications review
Cluster interconnect configuration
Joining the cluster membership
System and cluster interconnect failures
Changing the interconnect configuration
Protecting Data Using SCSI 3-Based Fencing
Data protection requirements
I/O fencing concepts
I/O fencing operations
I/O fencing implementation
Configuring I/O fencing
This is a version-specific reference outline. Confirm the current syllabus and delivery arrangements with EIEIO.