IN the Symantec High Availability Fundamentals course, you will learn how to manage storage in a high availability environment, perform cluster management, and practice basic file system administration. This five-day, instructor-led, hands-on class covers how to use Veritas high availability technology to meet data availability goals by implementing Veritas Cluster Server and Veritas Storage Foundation, which includes Veritas Volume Manager and Veritas File System.

What You'll Learn

• 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
• Types of disk failure and how to resolve disk failures
• Manage cluster services with Veritas Cluster Server and perform troubleshooting techniques
• Cluster communications, identify faults, and configure failover behavior

Who Needs to Attend

UNIX system or network administrators, system engineers, technical support personnel, and system integration/development staff who will be installing, operating, or integrating Veritas Storage Foundation and Veritas Cluster Server

Prerequisites

Knowledge of UNIX system administration

Follow-On Courses

There are no follow-ons for this course.

Course Outline

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

1. Virtual Objects

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

2. 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

3. 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

4. Working with Volumes with Different Layouts

• Volume layouts
• Creating volumes with various layouts
• Creating a layered volume
• Allocating storage for volumes

5. 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

6. 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

7. Resolving Hardware Problems

• How VxVM interprets 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

8. High Availability Concepts

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

9. VCS Building Blocks

• VCS terminology
• Cluster communication
• VCS architecture

10. Preparing a Site for VCS Implementation

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

11. Installing VCS

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

12. VCS Configuration Methods

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

13. 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

14. Online Configuration

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

15. Offline Configuration

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

16. Configuring Notification

• Notification overview
• Configuring notification
• Using triggers for notification

17. Handling Resource Faults

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

18. Cluster Communications

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

19. System and Communication Faults

• Ensuring data integrity
• Cluster interconnect failures

20. 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

21. Troubleshooting

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