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Veritas Cluster Server 6.0 for UNIX - Administration

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Duration

5 days

Course Description

The Veritas Cluster Server 6.0 for UNIX: Administration course is designed for the IT professional tasked with installing, configuring, and maintaining VCS clusters.

This five-day, instructor-led, hands-on class covers how to use Veritas Cluster Server to manage applications in a high availability environment.

After gaining the fundamental skills that are needed to manage a highly available application in a cluster, you deploy VCS in a lab environment to implement a sample cluster design.

This course includes practical, hands-on lab exercises that enable you to test your new skills and begin to transfer them into your working environment.

Prerequisites

You must have experience as a system or network administrator working in a UNIX environment, and basic knowledge of UNIX system administration.

Objectives

  • Install VCS and create a cluster.
  • Configure service groups and resources.
  • Implement and verify failover and failback capability for application, storage, and network services.
  • Configure and optimize cluster behavior.
  • Protect data in a shared storage environment.
  • Configure VCS to manage an Oracle database, an NFS share, and other applications.
  • Implement four-node clusters.
  • Configure service group dependencies and workload management.
  • Implement alternative network configurations.

Part 1: Veritas Cluster Server 6.0 for UNIX: Install and Configure (three-day course)

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

Data Protection Using SCSI 3-Based 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 configuration CP servers
  • Configuring client clusters
  • CPS administration
  • Coordination point agent

Part 2: Veritas Cluster Server 6.0 for UNIX: Manage and Administer (two-day course)

Veritas Cluster Server: Example Application Configurations (book)

Clustering Applications

  • Application service overview
  • VCS agents for managing applications
  • The Application agent

Clustering Databases

  • VCS database agents
  • Database preparation
  • The database agent for Oracle
  • Database failover behavior
  • Additional Oracle agent functions

Clustering NFS

  • Preparing NFS for high availability
  • Testing the NFS service
  • Configuring NFS resources
  • NFS lock failover
  • Alternative NFS configurations

Veritas Cluster Server for UNIX: Cluster Management (book)

Service Group Dependencies

  • Common application relationships
  • Service group dependencies
  • Service group dependency examples
  • Configuring service group dependencies
  • Alternative methods of controlling interactions

Reconfiguring Cluster Membership

  • Adding a new system to a running VCS cluster
  • Merging two running VCS clusters
  • Additional reconfiguring tasks

Startup and Failover Policies

  • Startup rules and policies
  • Failover rules and policies
  • Limits and prerequisites
  • Modeling startup and failover policies

Alternate Network Configurations

  • Alternative network configurations
  • Multiple interface configurations

High Availability in the Enterprise

  • Veritas Operations Manager
  • Disaster recovery enhancements
  • Virtualization support

This is a version-specific reference outline. Confirm the current syllabus and delivery arrangements with EIEIO.