COURSE DESCRIPTION
The Veritas InfoScale 7.1 Fundamentals for UNIX/Linux
Administration course is designed for the IT professional who wants an overview of the Veritas InfoScale Storage and Veritas
InfoScale Availability products.
This five-day class is a condensed version of the five day Veritas
InfoScale Storage 7.1 for UNIX/Linux: Administration course and the five day Veritas InfoScale Availabiity 7.1 for UNIX/Linux:
Administration course. This is a subset of the two courses, and it covers absolute basics of the two products InfoScale Storage 7.1 and InfoScale Availability 7.1.
This course will NOT prepare you for the certification exams* or the Advanced courses** of both the products.
* Certification exams:
Administration of Veritas InfoScale Storage 7.1 for UNIX/Linux
Exam
Administration of Veritas InfoScale Availability 7.1 for UNIX/Linux
Exam
** Advanced courses:
Veritas InfoScale Storage 7.x for UNIX/Linux: Advanced
Administration
Veritas InfoScale Availability 7.x for UNIX/Linux: Advanced
Administration I & II
Delivery Method
This course is available in the following delivery methods:
Instructor-led training (ILT)
Virtual Academy (VA)
Duration
Five days
Course Objectives
By the completion of this course, you will be able to:
Install and configure Veritas InfoScale Enterprise.
Configure and manage disks, disk groups, and volumes.
Administer file systems.
Create a 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/Linux system administrators, system engineers, technical support personnel, network/SAN administrators, and systems integration/development staff who want an overview of the
Veritas Storage Foundation and Veritas Cluster Server products.
Prerequisites
Knowledge of UNIX system administration
Veritas InfoScale 7.1 for UNIX/Linux: Installation
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: Veritas InfoScale Storage 7.1 for
UNIX/Linux: Administration
InfoScale Storage Basics
Virtual Objects
Operating system storage devices and virtual data storage
Volume Manager (VxVM) storage objects
VxVM volume layouts and RAID levels
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 and other countries. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners. Specifications and product offerings are subject to change without notice.
PART 2: Veritas InfoScale Availability 7.1 for
UNIX/Linux: Administration
InfoScale Availability Basics
High Availability Concepts
High availability concepts
Clustering concepts
High availability application services
Clustering prerequisites
VCS Building Blocks
VCS terminology
Cluster communication
VCS architecture
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
InfoScale Availability Additions
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 interconnect configuration
Joining the cluster membership
Changing the interconnect configuration
This is a version-specific reference outline. Confirm the current syllabus and delivery arrangements with EIEIO.