Duration
5 days
Overview
The Veritas InfoScale Availability 8.0 for Unix/Linux: Administration course is designed for IT professionals tasked with installing, deploying, configuring, and maintaining Veritas Cluster Server (VCS) clusters. This course discusses how to use InfoScale Availability to manage applications and databases in high availability environments and Cloud environments. The course is designed to enable you to gain the necessary fundamental and advanced skills that are required to manage a highly available application in a cluster. It also discusses how 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:
Provide an overview of the InfoScale product suite and InfoScale support for cloud environments. • Create a cluster, and configure service groups and resources. • Outline the different VCS cluster communication mechanisms. • Explain InfoScale support for multi-version clusters. • Perform common administrative cluster operations. • Summarize VCS user and agent account passwords encryption standards. • Outline online and offline configuration procedures. • Configure notifications and triggers to customize VCS behavior in response to events. • Explain how VCS responds to resources faults. • Describe how the Intelligent Monitoring Framework improves fault detection. • Describe VCS response to common system and cluster interconnect failures. • Illustrate how I/O Fencing protects data in common cluster scenarios.
Manage applications and databases in a VCS environment. • Explain InfoScale support for containers and Kubernetes. • Summarize the architecture of VMware vSphere HA. • Summarize the architecture for supporting HA in VMware environments. • Set up cluster configuration using shared storage for CFS clusters.
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 install, configure, manage, and integrate InfoScale Availability.
Prerequisites
Knowledge of and hands-on experience with UNIX/Linux systems administration is required.
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.
Outline
Cluster Server Basics
High Availability Concepts
Clustering Concepts
High Availability Applications
Clustering Prerequisites
Labs: Introduction
Exercise A: Viewing Virtual Machine Configuration Details
Exercise B: Verifying Network Connectivity
Labs:
Exercise A: Performing a CPI Pre-installation Verification
Exercise B: Performing a SORT Pre-installation Verification
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:
Exercise A: Installing InfoScale Enterprise Using the Common Product Installer (CPI)
Exercise B: Running a Post-installation Check
Exercise C: Adding Managed Hosts to the VIOM Management Server
VCS Building Blocks
VCS Terminology
Cluster Communication
VCS Architecture
Multi-version Cluster
Veritas InfoScale Operations Manager (VIOM): Overview
Labs:
Exercise A: Working with the VIOM GUI Dashboard and Inventory Information
Exercise B: Exploring the VIOM GUI License Options
Exercise C: Working with the VIOM GUI Settings Option
VCS Operations
Common VCS Tools and Operations
Service Group Operations
Resource Operations
VCS Custom Scripts: 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
Configuration Methods: Overview
Online Configuration
Controlling Access to VCS
VCS Password Encryption
Labs:
Exercise A: VCS Configuring the State and Stopping VCS
Exercise B: Configuring Automatic Backup of 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 a 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 (VFD) 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
Triggers: Overview
Labs:
Exercise A: Configuring and Testing Notifier Using VIOM
Exercise B: Configuring Trigger Scripts
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
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 RestartLimit Behavior
Intelligent Monitoring Framework
Intelligent Monitoring Framework: Overview
Intelligent Monitoring Framework: Configuration
Faults and Failover with Intelligent Monitoring
Labs:
Exercise A: Examining IMF Monitoring on a Resource
Exercise B: (Optional) Examining IMF Default Configuration
Cluster Communications
VCS Communications: Overview
Cluster Interconnect Configuration
Cluster Startup
System and Cluster Interconnect Failure
Changing the Interconnect Configuration
Labs:
Exercise A: Reconfiguring LLT
Exercise B: Observing Jeopardy Membership
Cluster Server Applications
Using I/O Fencing for Application Data Integrity
Data Protection Requirements
I/O Fencing Concepts
I/O Fencing Operations
I/O Fencing Implementation
Fencing Configuration
Labs:
Exercise A: Fencing Configuration Pre-checks
Exercise B: Configuring VCS for I/O Fencing
Exercise C: Verifying I/O Fencing Configuration
Exercise D: Verifying Data Disks for I/O Fencing
Clustering Applications
Application Service: Overview
Manage Applications Using VCS Agents
Working with the Application Agent
IMF Support and Prevention of Concurrency Violation
Labs:
Exercise A: Adding a Resource of Type Application
Exercise B: Testing the Resource
Exercise C: IMF and Application Agent Monitoring Options
Clustering Databases
VCS Database Agents
Database Preparation
Database Agent For Oracle
Database Failover Behavior
Additional Oracle Agent Functions
Labs:
Exercise A: Verifying the Oracle Configuration
Exercise B: Preparing Storage and Network Resources for the Oracle Service Group
Exercise C: Testing the Oracle Database Manually
Exercise D: Configuring Oracle Under VCS Control
Exercise E: Running a Virtual Fire Drill and Switching the Oracle Service Group
Exercise F: (Optional) Oracle Monitoring
In-Guest Clustering
InfoScale Support for Cloud Environments
InfoScale Solutions for Cloud Environments
InfoScale Support for Kubernetes on Linux
Preparing for InfoScale Installations in Cloud Environments
Configuration for Cloud Environments
Application Migration Support for AWS
Troubleshooting Issues in Cloud Environment
Labs:
Exercise A: Configuring the REST API Server
Exercise B: Verifying S3 Server Details
Exercise C: Creating InfoScale Storage Support for S3 Connector
Exercise D: Using the VIOM Deploy Application Migration Add-On
Exercise E: Adding the VIOM Management Server to the Global Reports Perspective
Exercise F: Generating VIOM Reports
VMware vSphere Data Center Architecture
VMware vSphere High Availability Architecture
VMware Administration
VMware Storage Architecture
Server and Storage Migration
Labs:
Exercise A: Verifying the VMware vSphere Lab Environment
Exercise B: Connecting to Nested Virtual Machines
Exercise C: Testing vMotion Functionality
Veritas High Availability Deployment in VMware
Veritas High Availability Architecture for VMware
Deploying InfoScale Availability on Virtual Machines
Configuring the vSphere Web Client for Veritas HA
Labs:
Exercise A: Preparing the Nested Virtual Machine Lab Environment
Exercise B: Deploying a Veritas Cluster on Nested Virtual Machines
Exercise C: Adding Cluster Systems as Managed Hosts to VIOM
Exercise D: Installing the VIOM Control Host Add-On
Exercise E: Adding Virtualization Information to the VIOM Management Server
Exercise F: Installing and Registering the Veritas HA Plug-in for vSphere Web Client
Veritas High Availability Configuration and Administration
Configuring Storage for VCS Failover Clusters
Configuring shared storage for CFS Clusters
Configuring Availability
Veritas High Availability Operations
Just-In-Time Availability Solution
Labs:
Exercise A: Preparing the Nested Virtual Machine Lab Environment
Exercise B: Setting the EnableUUID Parameter for Virtual Machine Disks
Exercise C: Testing vMotion with Veritas In-Guest Clustering
Exercise D: Managing the Oracle Disk Group Configuration
Labs: Managing Different Types of VMware Storage in a VCS Cluster
Exercise A: Preparing the Nested Virtual Machine Lab Environment
Exercise B: Configuring a Shared VMFS Datastore
Exercise C: Configuring Virtual and Physical RDM Disks
Exercise D: Creating a Service Group to Manage the Virtual and Physical RDM Disks
Exercise E: (Optional) Observing vMotion with RDM Disks
Exercise F: (Optional) Enabling Shared Storage Across Multiple VMs Using Physical RDM Disks
Exercise G: (Optional) Aligning Shared Disk Device Names Across Multiple Virtual Machines
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