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Veritas InfoScale Availability 7.3 for UNIX Linux- Advanced Administration II

Course outline

5 days
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Duration

5 days

Overview

The Veritas InfoScale Availability 7.3 for UNIX/Linux: Advanced Administration II course is designed for the IT professional tasked with managing, configuring, and using clusters in an enterprise environment.

This class covers how to set up advanced service group and application configurations, manage system outages, and

upgrade a cluster.

Note: This course does not teach basic clustering concepts and is a follow-on course from the Veritas InfoScale

Availability 7.3 for UNIX/Linux: Administration course.

Course Objectives

By the completion of this course, you will be able to:

  • Set up service group dependencies and virtual Business services.
  • Use triggers to customize VCS behavior.
  • Reconfigure cluster memberships.
  • Control and customize application startup, failover, and shutdown.
  • Manage system outages and upgrade clusters.

Who Should Attend

This course is for system administrators, architects, and technical support personnel who are responsible for implementing, managing, and supporting clusters in complex enterprise environments.

Prerequisites

You must have administrator-level experience with UNIX or Linux, TCP/IP networking, and clustering using Veritas Cluster Server.

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

Service Groups

Managing Service Group Dependencies

  • Common application relationships
  • Service group dependencies
  • Service group dependency examples
  • Configuring service group dependencies
  • Limitations of service group dependencies

Using Virtual Business Services

  • Understanding Virtual Business Services
  • Configuring a virtual business services
  • Managing a virtual business service
  • Disaster recovery support in VBS
  • Supporting a VBS environment

Using Triggers to Customize VCS Behavior

  • Understanding triggers
  • Configuring triggers
  • Using multiple trigger scripts

Reconfiguring Cluster Membership

  • Removing a cluster node
  • Adding a cluster node
  • Merging clusters

Applications

Controlling Application Startup and Shutdown

  • Agent framework overview
  • Resource online and offline processes
  • Cluster startup
  • Startup rules and policies
  • Limits and prerequisites

Controlling Application Failover

  • Failover rules and policies
  • Limits and prerequisites
  • Priority based failover
  • AdaptiveHA

Customizing Application Failover Behavior

  • VCS response to resource faults
  • Other service group attributes affecting failover
  • Controlling failover with resource type attributes

Managing Applications in Docker Containers

  • Docker overview
  • Storage management for Docker
  • Using Veritas File System for Docker storage
  • Using Cluster File System for Docker storage
  • High availability for Docker
  • Disaster recovery for Docker

Systems and Clusters

Managing System Outages

  • Differentiating between system shutdown and outage
  • Controlling cluster shutdown
  • Controlling applications during a system outage

Upgrading InfoScale Availability

  • Planning to upgrade InfoScale
  • Online upgrade
  • Full upgrade
  • Rolling upgrade
  • Phased upgrade
  • Finding and installing InfoScale patches
  • Other upgrade considerations

Programme scope, delivery arrangements and suitability are confirmed during enquiry.