ISAUAVEVeritasVE-ISAUA7.4.2<p>By the completion of this course, you will be able to:</p> <ul> <li>Describe how clustering is used to implement high availability in the data center environment.</li><li>Describe VCS and cluster communication mechanisms.</li><li>Create a cluster, and configure service groups and resources.</li><li>Implement and verify failover and failback capability for application, storage, and network services.</li><li>Configure and optimize cluster behavior.</li><li>Protect data in a shared storage environment.</li><li>Describe I/O fencing operations, and its implementation.</li><li>Configure VCS to manage an Oracle database and other applications.</li><li>Describe InfoScale support for Cloud Environments.</li><li>Configure and manage VCS clusters on virtual machines in VMware environment.</li><li>Implement Just in Time Availability for single node VCS cluster on virtual machine in a VMware environment.</li></ul><p>Knowledge of and hands-on experience with UNIX/Linux systems administration is required.</p><p>This course is 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 Availability.</p><h5>Cluster Server Basics</h5><ul> <li>High Availability Concepts</li><li>Installing and Licensing InfoScale</li><li>VCS Building Blocks</li><li>VCS Operations</li><li>VCS Configuration Methods</li><li>Preparing Services for VCS</li><li>Online Configuration</li><li>Offline Configuration</li><li>Configuring Notification</li></ul><h5>Cluster Server Additions</h5><ul> <li>Handling Resource Faults</li><li>Intelligent Monitoring Framework</li><li>Cluster Communications</li></ul><h5>Cluster Server Applications</h5><ul> <li>Using I/O Fencing for Application Data Integrity</li><li>Clustering Applications</li><li>Clustering Databases</li></ul><h5>In-Guest Clustering</h5><ul> <li>InfoScale support for Cloud Environments</li><li>VMware vSphere Data Center Architecture</li><li>Veritas High Availability Deployment in VMware</li><li>Veritas High Availability Configuration and Administration</li></ul><h4>Cluster Server Basics</h4><h5>High Availability Concepts</h5><ul> <li>High availability concepts</li><li>Clustering concepts</li><li>High availability application services</li><li>Clustering prerequisites</li></ul><h5>Labs: Intro Lab</h5><ul> <li>Exercise A: Viewing the virtual machine</li><li>Exercise B: Verifying network</li></ul><h5>Labs: Validating Site Preparation</h5><ul> <li>Exercise A: Performing a CPI pre-installation verification</li><li>Exercise B: Performing a SORT pre-installation verification</li></ul><h5>Installing and Licensing InfoScale</h5><ul> <li>Introducing the Veritas InfoScale product suite</li><li>Tools for installing InfoScale products</li><li>Installing Veritas InfoScale Availability</li><li>InfoScale cloud offerings</li><li>Upgrading to InfoScale Enterprise</li></ul><h5>Labs:</h5><ul> <li>Exercise A: Installing InfoScale Enterprise using the Common Product Installer (CPI)]</li><li>Exercise B: Running a post-installation check</li><li>Exercise C: Adding cluster systems to VIOM as managed hosts</li></ul><h5>VCS Building Blocks</h5><ul> <li>VCS terminology</li><li>Cluster communication</li><li>VCS architecture</li><li>Multi version cluster</li></ul><h5>Labs:</h5><ul> <li>Exercise A: Working with the VIOM GUI Dashboard and inventory information</li><li>Exercise B: Exploring the VIOM GUI Licensing option</li><li>Exercise C: Working with the VIOM GUI Settings option</li></ul><h5>VCS Operations</h5><ul> <li>Common VCS tools and operations</li><li>Service group operations</li><li>Resource operations</li></ul><h5>Labs</h5><ul> <li>Exercise A: Displaying cluster information</li><li>Exercise B: Displaying status and attributes</li><li>Exercise C: Performing service group operations</li><li>Exercise D: Manipulating resources</li></ul><h5>VCS Configuration Methods</h5><ul> <li>Starting and stopping VCS</li><li>Overview of configuration methods</li><li>Online configuration</li><li>Controlling access to VCS</li></ul><h5>Labs</h5><ul> <li>Exercise A: VCS configuration state and stopping VCS</li><li>Exercise B: Configuring automatic backup of the VCS configuration</li><li>Exercise C: Setting non default VCS stop options</li></ul><h5>Preparing Services for VCS</h5><ul> <li>Preparing applications for VCS</li><li>Performing one-time configuration tasks</li><li>Testing the application service</li><li>Stopping and migrating a service</li><li>Collecting configuration information</li></ul><h5>Labs</h5><ul> <li>Exercise A: Configuring and examining storage for the service</li><li>Exercise B: Examining the application</li><li>Exercise C: Manually starting and stopping the application</li></ul><h5>Online Configuration</h5><ul> <li>Online service group configuration</li><li>Adding resources</li><li>Solving common configuration errors</li><li>Testing the service group</li></ul><h5>Labs</h5><ul> <li>Exercise A: Creating a service group for the loopy application</li><li>Exercise B: Configuring resources for the loopy application</li><li>Exercise C: Performing a virtual fire drill on the service group</li><li>Exercise D: Testing the service group</li><li>Exercise E: Setting resources to critical</li><li>Exercise F: (Optional) Examining Veritas File System locking by VCS</li></ul><h5>Offline Configuration</h5><ul> <li>Offline configuration examples</li><li>Offline configuration procedures</li><li>Solving offline configuration problems</li><li>Testing the service group</li></ul><h5>Labs</h5><ul> <li>Exercise A: Editing a copy of the main.cf file using a system editor</li><li>Exercise B: Stopping VCS</li><li>Exercise C: Restarting VCS using the edited main.cf file</li></ul><h5>Configuring Notification</h5><ul> <li>Notification overview</li><li>Configuring notification</li><li>Overview of triggers</li></ul><h5>Labs</h5><ul> <li>Exercise A: Configuring and testing the notifier using VIOM</li><li>Exercise B: Configuring trigger scripts</li></ul><h4>Cluster Server Additions</h4><h5>Handling Resource Faults</h5><ul> <li>VCS response to resource faults</li><li>Determining failover duration</li><li>Controlling fault behavior</li><li>Recovering from resource faults</li><li>Fault notification and event handling</li></ul><h5>Labs</h5><ul> <li>Exercise A: Observing non-critical resource faults</li><li>Exercise B: Observing critical resource faults</li><li>Exercise C: (Optional) Observing faults in frozen service groups</li><li>Exercise D: (Optional) Observing ManageFaults behavior</li><li>Exercise E: (Optional) Observing restart limit behavior</li></ul><h5>Intelligent Monitoring Framework</h5><ul> <li>IMF overview</li><li>IMF configuration</li><li>Faults and failover with intelligent monitoring</li></ul><h5>Labs</h5><ul> <li>Exercise A: Examining IMF monitoring on a resource</li><li>Exercise B: (Optional) Examining the IMF default configuration</li></ul><h5>Cluster Communications</h5><ul> <li>VCS communications review</li><li>Cluster interconnect configuration</li><li>Cluster startup</li><li>System and cluster interconnect failure</li><li>Changing the interconnect configuration</li></ul><h5>Labs</h5><ul> <li>Exercise A: Reconfiguring LLT</li><li>Exercise B: Observing jeopardy membership</li></ul><h4>Cluster Server Applications</h4><h5>Using I/O Fencing for Application Data Integrity</h5><ul> <li>Data protection requirements</li><li>I/O fencing concepts</li><li>I/O fencing operations</li><li>I/O fencing implementation</li><li>Fencing configuration</li></ul><h5>Labs</h5><ul> <li>Exercise A: Fencing configuration pre-checks</li><li>Exercise B: Configuring VCS for I/O fencing</li><li>Exercise C: I/O fencing configuration verification</li><li>Exercise D: Verifying data disks for I/O fencing</li></ul><h5>Clustering Applications</h5><ul> <li>Application service overview</li><li>VCS agents for managing applications</li><li>The Application agent</li><li>IMF support and prevention of concurrency violation</li></ul><h5>Labs</h5><ul> <li>Exercise A: Adding a resource of type Application</li><li>Exercise B: Testing the resource</li><li>Exercise C: IMF and Application agent monitoring options</li></ul><h5>Clustering Databases</h5><ul> <li>VCS database agents</li><li>Database preparation</li><li>The database agent for Oracle</li><li>Database failover behavior</li><li>Additional Oracle agent functions</li></ul><h5>Labs</h5><ul> <li>Exercise A: Verifying the Oracle configuration</li><li>Exercise B: Preparing storage and network resources for the Oracle service group</li><li>Exercise C: Testing the Oracle database manually</li><li>Exercise D: Configuring Oracle under VCS control</li><li>Exercise E: Running a virtual fire drill and switching the Oracle service group</li><li>Exercise F: (Optional) Oracle monitoring</li></ul><h4>In-Guest Clustering</h4><h5>InfoScale support for Cloud Environments</h5><ul> <li>InfoScale solutions for cloud environments</li><li>Preparing for InfoScale installations in cloud environments</li><li>Configurations for cloud environments</li><li>Troubleshooting issues in cloud environments</li></ul><h5>Labs</h5><ul> <li>Exercise A: Verify S3 server details (sys3)</li><li>Exercise B: Create InfoScale storage support for S3 connector</li><li>Exercise C: Using VIOM deploy Application Migration Add-on</li></ul><h5>VMware vSphere Data Center Architecture</h5><ul> <li>VMware vSphere high availability architecture</li><li>VMware administration</li><li>VMware storage architecture</li><li>Server and storage migration</li></ul><h5>Labs</h5><ul> <li>Exercise A: Verifying the VMware vSphere lab environment</li><li>Exercise B: Connecting to the nested virtual machines</li><li>Exercise C: Testing vMotion</li></ul><h5>Veritas High Availability Deployment in VMware</h5><ul> <li>Veritas high availability architecture in VMware</li><li>Deploying InfoScale Availability on virtual machines</li><li>Configuring the vSphere Web Client for Veritas HA</li></ul><h5>Labs</h5><ul> <li>Exercise A: Preparing the nested virtual machine lab environment</li><li>Exercise B: Deploying a Veritas cluster on nested virtual machines</li><li>Exercise C: Adding cluster systems as managed hosts to VIOM</li><li>Exercise D: Installing the VIOM Control Host add-on on mgt</li><li>Exercise E: Adding virtualization information to the VIOM management server</li><li>Exercise F: Installing and registering the Veritas HA Plug-in for vSphere Web Client</li></ul><h5>Veritas High Availability Configuration and Administration</h5><ul> <li>Configuring storage for VCS failover cluster</li><li>Configuring shared storage for CFS clusters</li><li>Configuring availability</li><li>Veritas high availability operations</li><li>Just-In-Time Availability solution</li></ul><h5>Labs &ndash; Part A</h5><ul> <li>Exercise A: Preparing the nested virtual machine lab environment</li><li>Exercise B: Using the vSphere Web Client to monitor Veritas high availability</li><li>Exercise C: Setting EnableUUID parameter for virtual machine disks</li><li>Exercise D: Testing vMotion with Veritas in-guest clustering</li><li>Exercise E: (Optional) Managing the Oracle Disk group configuration</li></ul><h5>Labs &ndash; Part B</h5><ul> <li>Exercise A: Preparing the nested virtual machine lab environment</li><li>Exercise B: Configuring a shared VMFS datastore</li><li>Exercise C: Configuring virtual and physical RDM disks on sys3</li><li>Exercise D: Creating a service group to manage the virtual and physical RDM disks</li><li>Exercise E: (Optional) Observing vMotion with RDM disks</li><li>Exercise F: (Optional) Enabling shared storage across multiple VMs using physical RDM disks</li><li>Exercise G: (Optional) Aligning the shared</li></ul><h5>Labs: Challenge Lab (Linux)</h5><ul> <li>Exercise A: Creating a 4-Node West cluster (VCS type)</li><li>Exercise B: Creating a local mount point (VxFS type) and backup data to S3 server (sys3)</li><li>Exercise C: Using VIOM install Application Migration and Control Host Add-ons</li></ul>By the completion of this course, you will be able to: - Describe how clustering is used to implement high availability in the data center environment. - Describe VCS and cluster communication mechanisms. - Create a cluster, and configure service groups and resources. - Implement and verify failover and failback capability for application, storage, and network services. - Configure and optimize cluster behavior. - Protect data in a shared storage environment. - Describe I/O fencing operations, and its implementation. - Configure VCS to manage an Oracle database and other applications. - Describe InfoScale support for Cloud Environments. - Configure and manage VCS clusters on virtual machines in VMware environment. - Implement Just in Time Availability for single node VCS cluster on virtual machine in a VMware environment.Knowledge of and hands-on experience with UNIX/Linux systems administration is required.This course is 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 Availability.Cluster Server Basics - High Availability Concepts - Installing and Licensing InfoScale - VCS Building Blocks - VCS Operations - VCS Configuration Methods - Preparing Services for VCS - Online Configuration - Offline Configuration - Configuring Notification Cluster Server Additions - Handling Resource Faults - Intelligent Monitoring Framework - Cluster Communications Cluster Server Applications - Using I/O Fencing for Application Data Integrity - Clustering Applications - Clustering Databases In-Guest Clustering - InfoScale support for Cloud Environments - VMware vSphere Data Center Architecture - Veritas High Availability Deployment in VMware - Veritas High Availability Configuration and AdministrationCluster Server Basics High Availability Concepts - High availability concepts - Clustering concepts - High availability application services - Clustering prerequisites Labs: Intro Lab - Exercise A: Viewing the virtual machine - Exercise B: Verifying network Labs: Validating Site Preparation - 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 - Installing Veritas InfoScale Availability - InfoScale cloud offerings - Upgrading to InfoScale Enterprise 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: Working with the VIOM GUI Dashboard and inventory information - Exercise B: Exploring the VIOM GUI Licensing option - Exercise C: Working with the VIOM GUI Settings option 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 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 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 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: I/O fencing configuration verification - Exercise D: Verifying data disks for I/O fencing Clustering Applications - Application service overview - VCS agents for managing applications - 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 - The 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 - Preparing for InfoScale installations in cloud environments - Configurations for cloud environments - Troubleshooting issues in cloud environments Labs - Exercise A: Verify S3 server details (sys3) - Exercise B: Create InfoScale storage support for S3 connector - Exercise C: Using VIOM deploy Application Migration Add-on 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 the nested virtual machines - Exercise C: Testing vMotion Veritas High Availability Deployment in VMware - Veritas high availability architecture in 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 on mgt - 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 cluster - Configuring shared storage for CFS clusters - Configuring availability - Veritas high availability operations - Just-In-Time Availability solution Labs – Part A - Exercise A: Preparing the nested virtual machine lab environment - Exercise B: Using the vSphere Web Client to monitor Veritas high availability - Exercise C: Setting EnableUUID parameter for virtual machine disks - Exercise D: Testing vMotion with Veritas in-guest clustering - Exercise E: (Optional) Managing the Oracle Disk group configuration Labs – Part B - Exercise A: Preparing the nested virtual machine lab environment - Exercise B: Configuring a shared VMFS datastore - Exercise C: Configuring virtual and physical RDM disks on sys3 - 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 the shared Labs: Challenge Lab (Linux) - Exercise A: Creating a 4-Node West cluster (VCS type) - Exercise B: Creating a local mount point (VxFS type) and backup data to S3 server (sys3) - Exercise C: Using VIOM install Application Migration and Control Host Add-ons5 days3100.0010750.003250.003250.003250.003250.00