Symantec High Availability Fundamentals with Veritas Storage

Duration: Five Days

Course Objectives
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
• Install and configure Veritas Storage Foundation High Availability.
• Configure and manage disks, disk groups, and volumes by using Veritas Volume Manager.
• Perform online file system administration by using Veritas File System tools and commands.
• Identify types of disk failure and resolve disk failures.
• Manage cluster services with Veritas Cluster Server and perform troubleshooting techniques.
• Describe cluster communications, identify faults, and configure failover behavior.

COURSE OUTLINE

PART 1: Veritas Storage Foundation 5.1 for UNIX:
Install and Configure

Virtual Objects
• Physical data storage
• Virtual data storage
• Volume Manager storage objects
• Volume Manager RAID levels

Installing Storage Foundation and Accessing SF
Interfaces
• Preparing to install Storage Foundation
• Installing Storage Foundation
• Storage Foundation resources
• Storage Foundation user interfaces
• Managing the VEA software

Creating a Volume and File System
• Preparing disks and disk groups for volume creation
• Creating a volume
• Adding a file system to a volume
• Displaying disk and disk group information
• Displaying volume configuration information
• Removing volumes, disks, and disk groups

Working with Volumes with Different Layouts
• Volume layouts
• Creating volumes with various layouts
• Creating a layered volume
• Allocating storage for volumes

Making Configuration Changes
• Administering mirrored volumes
• Resizing a volume and a file system
• Moving data between systems
• Renaming disks and disk groups
• Managing disk group versions and formats

Administering File Systems
• Benefits of using Veritas File System
• Using Veritas File System commands
• Logging in VxFS
• Controlling file system fragmentation
• Using thin provisioning disk arrays

Resolving Hardware Problems
• How does VxVM interpret failures in hardware?
• Recovering disabled disk groups
• Resolving disk failures
• Managing hot relocation at the host level

PART 2: Veritas Cluster Server 5.1 for UNIX: Install and Configure

High Availability Concepts
• High availability concepts
• Clustering concepts
• HA application services
• Clustering prerequisites
• High availability references

VCS Building Blocks
• VCS terminology
• Cluster communication
• VCS architecture

Preparing a Site for VCS Implementation
• Hardware requirements and recommendations
• Software requirements and recommendations
• Preparing installation information
• Preparing to upgrade

Installing VCS
• Using the common product installer
• VCS configuration files
• Viewing the default VCS configuration
• Other installation considerations

VCS Operations
• Common VCS tools and operations
• Service group operations
• Resource operations
• Using the VCS Simulator

VCS Configuration Methods
• Starting and stopping VCS
• Overview of configuration methods
• Online configuration
• Offline configuration
• Controlling access to VCS

Preparing Services for High Availability
• Preparing applications for VCS
• Performing one-time configuration tasks
• Testing the application service
• Stopping and migrating an application service
• Collecting configuration information

Online Configuration
• Online service group configuration
• Adding resources
• Solving common configuration errors
• Testing the service group

Offline Configuration
• Offline configuration procedures
• Solving offline configuration problems
• Testing the service group

Configuring Notification
• Notification overview
• Configuring notification
• Using triggers for notification

Handling Resource Faults
• VCS response to resource faults
• Determining failover duration
• Controlling fault behavior
• Recovering from resource faults
• Fault notification and event handling

Cluster Communications
• VCS communications review
• Cluster membership
• Cluster interconnect configuration
• Joining the cluster membership
• Changing the interconnect configuration

System and Communication Faults
• Ensuring data integrity
• Cluster interconnect failures

I/O Fencing
• Data protection requirements
• I/O fencing concepts and components
• I/O fencing operations
• I/O fencing implementation
• Configuring I/O fencing
• Coordination point server

Troubleshooting
• Monitoring VCS
• Troubleshooting guide
• Archiving VCS-related files

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