Veritas InfoScale 7.4.2 Fundamentals for UNIX/Linux: Administration
Duration: 5 Days (40 Hours)
Veritas InfoScale 7.4.2 Fundamentals for UNIX/Linux: Administration Course Overview:
The Veritas InfoScale 7.4.2 Fundamentals for UNIX/Linux Administration course is specifically designed to provide IT professionals with a comprehensive overview of Veritas InfoScale Storage and Veritas InfoScale Availability products. This condensed five-day course combines the key components of the Veritas InfoScale Storage 7.4.2 for UNIX/Linux: Administration course and the Veritas InfoScale Availability 7.4.2 for UNIX/Linux: Administration course.
During this course, participants will gain a solid foundation in the fundamentals of InfoScale Storage 7.4.2 and InfoScale Availability 7.4.2. Through a combination of theoretical instruction and practical hands-on exercises, participants will have the opportunity to apply their newly acquired knowledge and skills in a real-world context.
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.
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.
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
• 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
Knowledge of UNIX system administration.
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