The Veritas Cluster Server (VCS) Premium Training Bundle is designed for the IT professional tasked with installing, configuring, and maintaining VCS clusters. This five-day, instructor-led, hands-on class covers how to use Veritas Cluster Server to manage applications in a high availability environment. After gaining the fundamental skills that are needed to manage a highly available application in a cluster, you will deploy VCS in a lab environment to implement a sample cluster design.

The training bundle includes:

• Instructor-led training
• On-demand instructor-led training (video)
• Symantec eLibrary subscription
• Symantec certification exam voucher

What You'll Learn

• Manage existing highly available application services using VCS
• Install VCS and create a cluster
• 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
• Configure VCS to manage an Oracle database, an NFS share, and other applications
• Analyze, troubleshoot, and correct cluster problems
• Implement four-node clusters
• Configure service group dependencies and workload management
• Implement alternative network configurations

Who Needs to Attend

System administrators, system engineers, network administrators, system integration or development staff, and technical support personnel who will be working with Veritas Cluster Server

Prerequisites

• Experience as a system and network administrator working in a UNIX environment
• Experience developing shell or Perl scripts is helpful

Follow-On Courses

There are no follow-ons for this course.

Course Outline

Veritas Cluster Server for UNIX: Install and Configure (three-day course)

1. High Availability Concepts

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

2. VCS Building Blocks

• VCS terminology
• Cluster communication
• VCS architecture

3. Preparing a Site for VCS Implementation

• Hardware requirements and recommendations
• Software requirements and recommendations
• Preparing installation information
• Preparing to upgrade

4. Installing VCS

• Using the Common Product Installer
• VCS configuration files
• Viewing the default VCS configuration
• Other installation considerations

5. VCS Operations

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

6. VCS Configuration Methods

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

7. 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

8. Online Configuration

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

9. Offline Configuration

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

10. Configuring Notification

• Notification overview
• Configuring notification
• Using triggers for notification

11. Handling Resource Faults

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

12. Cluster Communications

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

13. System and Communication Faults

• Ensuring data integrity
• Cluster interconnect failures

14. Troubleshooting

Monitoring VCS

Troubleshooting guide

Archiving VCS-related files

Veritas Cluster Server for UNIX: Manage and Administer (two-day course)

(includes Veritas Cluster Server: Example Application Configurations book)

15. Clustering Applications

• Application service overview
• VCS agents for managing applications
• The Application agent

16. Clustering Databases

• VCS database agents
• Database preparation
• The database agent for Oracle
• Database failover behavior
• Additional Oracle agent functions

17. Clustering NFS

• Preparing NFS for high availability
• Testing the NFS service
• Configuring NFS resources
• NFS lock failover
• Alternative NFS configurations

Veritas Cluster Server for UNIX: Cluster Management (book)

18. Service Group Dependencies

• Common application relationships
• Service group dependencies
• Service group dependency examples
• Configuring service group dependencies
• Alternative methods of controlling interactions

19. Startup and Failover Policies

• Startup rules and policies
• Failover rules and policies
• Limits and prerequisites
• Modeling startup and failover policies

20. Multiple Network Interfaces

• Alternative network configurations
• MultiNICB
• IPMultiNICB
• Example configuration

21. Data Center Availability

• VCS Management Console
• Storage Foundation Manager
• Disaster recovery

22. Workshop: Reconfiguring Cluster Membership

• Workshop overview
• Task 1: Removing a system from a running VCS cluster
• Task 2: Adding a new system to a running VCS cluster
• Task 3: Merging two running VCS clusters