Course Overview
The Veritas InfoScale Availability 8.0 for Unix/Linux- Administration course is designed for IT professionals installing, deploying, configuring, & maintaining Veritas Cluster Server (VCS) clusters. This course discusses using InfoScale Availability to manage applications and databases in high-availability and Cloud environments. The course is developed to enable you to gain the fundamental and advanced skills required to handle a highly available application in a cluster. It also concerns how to deploy InfoScale Availability in the lab environment to execute a sample cluster design and deployment practically.
Prerequisites
Understanding of and hands-on experience with UNIX/Linux systems administration is required.
Audience Profile
This course is designed for technical support personnel, UNIX/Linux system administrators, system engineers, network/SAN administrators, & systems integration/development staff, who will install, configure, manage, and integrate InfoScale Availability.
Learning Objectives
After accomplishing 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 everyday administrative cluster operations.
- Summarize VCS user and agent account password 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 resource faults.
- Describe how the Intelligent Monitoring Framework improves fault detection.
- Describe VCS response to standard 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.
Content Outline
Lessons
- 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
Lessons
- 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
Lessons
- 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
Lessons
- 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
Lessons
- 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
Lessons
- Preparing Applications for VCS
- Performing One-time Configuration Tasks
- Testing the Application Service
- Stopping and Migrating a Service
- Collecting Configuration Information
Labs-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
Lessons
- 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
Lessons
- 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
Lessons
- 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
Lessons
- 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
Certification
VCS-260- Administration of Veritas InfoScale Availability 7.3 for UNIX/Linux
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