Duration
5 days
Overview
The Veritas InfoScale 7.4.2 Fundamentals for UNIX/Linux Administration course is designed for the IT professional who desires 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 7.4.2 for UNIX/Linux: Administration course and the five-day Veritas InfoScale
Availability 7.4.2 for UNIX/Linux: Administration course. This course is a subset of the two courses, and it covers the absolute basics of the two products - InfoScale Storage 7.4.2 and InfoScale Availability 7.4.2.
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 designed for UNIX/Linux system administrators, system engineers, technical support personnel, network/SAN administrators, and systems integration/development staff, who will be installing, operating, or integrating InfoScale Storage and InfoScale Availability.
Prerequisites
Knowledge of UNIX system administration.
Hands-On
This course includes practical hands-on exercises that enable you to test your new skills and begin to transfer them into your working environment.
PART 1: Veritas InfoScale Storage 7.4.2 for UNIX/Linux: Administration
InfoScale Storage Basics
Installing and Licensing InfoScale
- Introducing the Veritas InfoScale product suite
- Tools for installing InfoScale products
- InfoScale Cloud offerings
- Installing Veritas InfoScale Storage
- Installing Veritas InfoScale Availability
- Upgrading Veritas InfoScale Enterprise Labs: Introduction
- Exercise A: Viewing the virtual machine configuration
- Exercise B: Displaying networking information Labs: Installation of InfoScale Storage
- Exercise A: Verifying that the system meets installation requirements
- Exercise B: Installing InfoScale Storage and configuring Storage Foundation
- Exercise C: Performing post-installation and version checks
Virtual Objects
- Operating system storage devices and virtual data storage
- Volume Manager (VxVM) storage objects
- VxVM volume layouts and RAID levels Labs
- Exercise A: Text-based VxVM menu interface
- Exercise B: Accessing CLI commands
- Exercise C: Adding managed hosts (sys1 and sys2) to the VIOM Management Server (mgt)
Creating a Volume and File System
- Volume layouts
- Creating volumes with various layouts
- Allocating storage for volumes
- 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 Labs
- Exercise A: Creating disk groups, volumes and file systems: CLI
- Exercise B: Removing volumes and disks: CLI
- Exercise C: Destroying disk data using disk shredding: CLI
- Exercise D: (Optional) Creating disk groups, volumes, and file systems: VIOM
- Exercise E: (Optional) Removing volumes, disks, and disk groups: VIOM
Working with Volumes with Different Layouts
- Volume layouts
- Creating volumes with various layouts
- Allocating storage for volumes Labs
- Exercise A: Text-based VxVM menu interface
- Exercise B: Accessing CLI commands
- Exercise C: Adding managed hosts (sys1 and sys2) to the VIOM Management Server (mgt)
Making Configuration Changes
- Administering mirrored volumes
- Resizing a volume and a file system
- Moving data between systems
- Renaming VxVM objects Labs
- Exercise A: Administering mirrored volumes
- Exercise B: Resizing a volume and file system
- Exercise C: Renaming a disk group
- Exercise D: Moving data between systems
- Exercise E: (Optional) Resizing a file system only
PART 2: Veritas InfoScale Availability 7.4.2 for UNIX/Linux: Administration
InfoScale Availability Basics
High Availability Concepts
- High availability concepts
- Clustering concepts
- High availability application services
- Clustering prerequisites Labs:
- Exercise A: Installing InfoScale Enterprise using the
Common Product Installer (CPI)]
- Exercise B: Running a post-installation check
- Exercise C: Adding cluster systems to VIOM as managed hosts
VCS Building Blocks
- VCS terminology
- Cluster communication
- VCS architecture
- Multi version cluster Labs:
- Exercise A: Displaying cluster information
- Exercise B: Displaying status and attributes
- Exercise C: Performing service group operations
- Exercise D: Manipulating resources
VCS Operations
- Common VCS tools and operations
- Service group operations
- Resource operations Labs
- Exercise A: Displaying cluster information
- Exercise B: Displaying status and attributes
- Exercise C: Performing service group operations
- Exercise D: Manipulating resources
VCS Configuration Methods
- Starting and stopping VCS
- Overview of configuration methods
- Online configuration
- Controlling access to VCS Labs
- Exercise A: VCS configuration state and stopping VCS
- Exercise B: Configuring automatic backup of the VCS configuration
- Exercise C: Setting non default VCS stop options
Preparing Services for VCS
- Preparing applications for VCS
- Performing one-time configuration tasks
- Testing the application service
- Stopping and migrating a service
- Collecting configuration information Labs
- Exercise A: Configuring and examining storage for the service
- Exercise B: Examining the application
- Exercise C: Manually starting and stopping the application
Online Configuration
- Online service group configuration
- Adding resources
- Solving common configuration errors
- Testing the service group Labs
- Exercise A: Creating a service group for the loopy application
- Exercise B: Configuring resources for the loopy application
- Exercise C: Performing a virtual fire drill on the service group
- Exercise D: Testing the service group
- Exercise E: Setting resources to critical
- Exercise F: (Optional) Examining Veritas File System locking by VCS
Offline Configuration
- Offline configuration examples
- Offline configuration procedures
- Solving offline configuration problems
- Testing the service group Labs
- Exercise A: Editing a copy of the main.cf file using a system editor
- Exercise B: Stopping VCS
- Exercise C: Restarting VCS using the edited main.cf file
Configuring Notification
- Notification overview
- Configuring notification
- Overview of triggers Labs
- Exercise A: Configuring and testing the notifier using VIOM
- Exercise B: Configuring trigger scripts
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 Labs
- Exercise A: Observing non-critical resource faults
- Exercise B: Observing critical resource faults
- Exercise C: (Optional) Observing faults in frozen service groups
- Exercise D: (Optional) Observing ManageFaults behavior
- Exercise E: (Optional) Observing restart limit behavior
Intelligent Monitoring Framework
- IMF overview
- IMF configuration
- Faults and failover with intelligent monitoring Labs
- Exercise A: Examining IMF monitoring on a resource
- Exercise B: (Optional) Examining the IMF default configuration
Cluster Communications
- VCS communications review
- Cluster interconnect configuration
- Cluster startup
- System and cluster interconnect failure
- Changing the interconnect configuration Labs
- Exercise A: Reconfiguring LLT
- Exercise B: Observing jeopardy membership
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