Duration
5 days
Overview
The Veritas InfoScale Availability 7.3.1 for Windows: Administration course is designed for IT professionals tasked with installing, configuring, and maintaining the Veritas InfoScale Availability environments. This course discusses how to use InfoScale Availability to manage applications for high availability. It provides you with the necessary fundamental skills that are required to manage a highly available application in a cluster, and also enables you to deploy InfoScale Availability in the lab environment to practically implement a sample cluster design and deployment.
Course Objectives
By the completion of this course, you will be able to:
Describe how applications are managed in a high availability environment and the key requirements.
Describe VCS architecture.
Install InfoScale Enterprise (Availability and Storage)
Manage applications under the control of VCS service groups.
Manage resources within VCS service groups.
Compare and contrast VCS configuration methods.
Prepare and test applications before placing them under VCS control.
Stop resources and manually migrate an application.
Create a service group using online configuration tools.
Configure notification using the NotifierMngr resource.
Describe how VCS responds to resource faults.
Control fault behavior using resource type attributes.
Recover from resource faults, configure fault notification and triggers.
Learn how to configure IMF.
Describe how components communicate in a VCS environment.
Describe how cluster application services work in a high availability environment.
Describe how agents manage applications in a VCS environment.
Describe how VCS manages Exchange Server, SQL Server and SharePoint Server in a clustered environment.• Describe how VCS manages global cluster components.
Describe how VCS handles intercluster communication failures in a global cluster.
Configure the Global Cluster Option on a running cluster.
Administer global cluster heartbeats.
Who Should Attend
This course is for system administrators, system engineers, technical support personnel, network/SAN administrators, and systems integration/development staff, who will be installing, operating, managing, and working with InfoScale Availability.
Prerequisites
Knowledge of and hands-on experience with Microsoft Windows operating system administration is required. Working knowledge networking is also required.
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.
Course Outline
Cluster Server Basics
High Availability and Clustering Concepts
High availability concepts
Clustering concepts
High availability application services
Clustering prerequisites
Labs:
Exercise A: Connecting to the virtual machines
Exercise B: Verifying network connectivity
VCS Building Blocks
VCS terminology
Cluster communication
VCS architecture
Labs:
Exercise A: Verifying the details of configured iSCSI disks
Exercise B: Performing a SORT pre-installation verification check
Installing InfoScale
Introducing the Veritas InfoScale product suite
Installing InfoScale products
Labs:
Exercise A: Installing InfoScale Enterprise using the Veritas Product Installer (VPI)
Exercise B: Configuring the west cluster
Exercise C: Configuring the east cluster
Exercise D: Adding cluster systems to VIOM as managed hosts
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: Exploring the default VCS configuration
VCS Configuration Methods
Starting and stopping VCS
Overview of configuration methods
Online configuration
Offline configuration
Controlling access to VCS
Labs:
Exercise A: Starting and stopping VCS
Exercise B: Configuring automatic configuration backups
Exercise C: Configuring VCS stop options
Preparing Services for VCS
Preparing applications for VCS
Performing one-time configuration tasks
Testing the application service
Stopping and migrating an application service
Labs:
Exercise A: Configuring storage for an application
Exercise B: Configuring VMDg and MountV resources
Exercise C: Recording MAC address of cluster nodes
Exercise D: Setting up the application
Exercise E: Manually migrating the application
Exercise F: Making the services offline
Online Configuration
Online service group configuration
Adding resources
Solving common configuration errors
Testing the service group
Service group dependencies
Labs:
Exercise A: Creating a service group
Exercise B: Adding NIC and IP resources
Exercise C: Adding VMDg, MountV, and Process resources to a service group
Exercise D: Linking all the resources in a service group
Exercise E: Testing a service group
Exercise F: Setting resources to critical
Offline Configuration
Offline configuration procedures
Solving offline configuration problems
Testing the service group
Labs:
Exercise A: Adding a resource using the command line interface
Exercise B: Testing the FileOnOff resource
Configuring Notification
Notification overview
Configuring notification
Using triggers for notification
Labs:
Exercise A: Configuring SNMP Trap Receiver
Exercise B: Configuring a NotifierMngr type resource on west cluster
Exercise C: Configuring a NotifierMngr type resource on east cluster
Exercise D: Testing notifications
Cluster Server Additions
Handling Resource Faults
VCS response to resource faults
Determining failover duration
Controlling fault behavior
Recovering from resource faults
Fault notification and event handling
Introducing Intelligent Resource Monitoring
Labs:
Exercise A: Modifying the monitor interval of the FileOnOff resource
Exercise B: Observing the result of a non-critical resource fault
Exercise C: Observing the result of a critical resource fault
Exercise D: Observing the result of faults within frozen service groups
Exercise E: Observing the result of ManageFaults and FaultPropagation
Exercise F: Observing the result of RestartLimit behavior
Exercise G: (Optional) Observing Intelligent Resource Monitoring
Cluster Communications
VCS communications overview
Cluster membership
Cluster interconnect configuration
Joining the cluster membership
Changing the interconnect configuration
Labs:
Exercise A: Verifying the low-priority LLT link communication in west cluster
System and Communication Faults
System failures
Cluster interconnect failures
Labs:
Exercise A: Observing VCS response to single LLT link failure
Exercise B: Observing VCS response to multiple LLT link failures (Jeopardy)
Exercise C: Observing VCS response to multiple LLT link failures (Network Partition)
Cluster Server Applications
Clustering Applications
Application service overview
VCS Agents for managing applications
The GenericService agent
The ServiceMonitor agent
Labs:
Lab 13a:
Exercise A: Configuring shared storage for a GenericService resource
Lab 13b:
Exercise A: Creating a service group
Exercise B: Adding NIC and IP resources
Exercise C: Adding VMDg, MountV, and GenericService resources to a service group
Exercise D: Linking all the resources in service group websg
Exercise E: Testing the service group
Exercise F: Setting resources to critical
Clustering Exchange Server
Exchange Server in the VCS environment
VCS agent for Exchange Server
Supported Exchange Server configurations
Installing Exchange Server
Configuring an Exchange Server service group
Labs:
Exercise A: Configuring storage for Exchange application
Exercise B: Configuring an Exchange Server service group
Clustering SQL Server
SQL Server in the VCS environment
VCS database agents for SQL Server
Managing registry keys
Installing SQL Server in the cluster
Configuring a SQL Server service group
Monitoring databases
Labs:
Exercise A: Configuring storage for SQL application
Exercise B: Configuring a SQL Server service group
Exercise C: Testing the service group
Clustering SharePoint Server
SharePoint Server in the VCS environment
VCS agent for SharePoint Server
Installing SharePoint Server in a clustered environment
Configuring SharePoint Server service groups
Verifying the SharePoint cluster configuration
Labs:
Exercise A: Configuring a SharePoint Server farm
Exercise B: Configuring a SharePoint Server service group
Global Cluster Option
Global Cluster Architecture and Concepts
Global cluster architecture
Global cluster components
VCS features for global cluster management
Inter-cluster communication failure
Labs:
Exercise A: Verifying the lab environment for global clustering
Exercise B: Configuring a local service group on west cluster
Exercise C: Configuring a local service group on east cluster
Configuring a Global Cluster
Configuring the Global Cluster Option
Linking clusters
Configuring a global service group
Managing dynamic DNS updates
Labs:
Exercise A: Configuring GCO on west and east cluster
Exercise B: Linking clusters
Exercise C: Verifying DNS server access from cluster systems
Exercise D: Reconfiguring vcshelper user account on east cluster
Exercise E: Configuring a global service group on west cluster
Exercise F: Configuring a global service group on east cluster
Managing a Global Cluster
Managing clusters in a global cluster environment
Managing global cluster heartbeats
Managing global service groups
Labs:
Exercise A: Testing dynamic DNS updates
Exercise B: Adding another Icmp heartbeat link
Notification and Failover behavior in a Global Cluster
Notification in a global cluster
Failover behavior of a global service group
Cluster state transitions
Labs:
Exercise A: Verifying notification configuration
Exercise B: Testing local failover
Exercise C: Testing intercluster failover with ClusterFailOverPolicy set to Manual
Exercise D: Testing intercluster failover with ClusterFailOverPolicy set to Connected
Exercise E: Testing intercluster failover with ClusterFailOverPolicy set to Auto
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