The Veritas InfoScale 7.3 Fundamentals for UNIX/Linux Administration course is designed for the IT professional who wants an overview of the Veritas InfoScale Storage and Veritas InfoScale Availability products.
This five-day class is a condensed version of the five-day Veritas InfoScale Storage 7.3 for UNIX/Linux: Administration course and the five-day Veritas InfoScale Availability 7.3 forUNIX/Linux: Administration course.
This is a subset of the two courses, and it covers the absolute basics of the two products InfoScale Storage 7.3 and InfoScale Availability 7.3.
• Install and configure Veritas InfoScale Enterprise.
• Configure and manage disks, disk groups, and volumes.
• Administer file systems.
• Create a cluster.
• Configure service groups and resources.
• Implement and verify failover and failback capability for application, storage, and network services.
This course is designed 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 Storage and InfoScale Availability.
InfoScale Storage Basics
Virtual Objects
Operating system storage devices and virtual data storage
Volume Manager (VxVM) storage objects
VxVM volume layouts and RAID levels Creating a Volume and File System
Preparing disks and disk groups for volume creation
Creating a volume and adding a file system
Displaying disk and disk group information
Displaying volume configuration information
Removing volumes, disks, and disk groups
Labs
Exercise A: Creating disk groups, volumes and file systems: CLI
Exercise B: Removing volumes and disks: CLI
Exercise C: Destroying disk data using disk shredding: CLI
Exercise D: (Optional) Creating disk groups, volumes, and file systems: VIOM
Exercise E: (Optional) Removing volumes, disks, and disk groups: VIOM
Working with Volumes with Different Layouts
Volume layouts
Creating volumes with various layouts
Allocating storage for volumesLabs
Exercise A: Creating volumes with different layouts: CLI
Exercise B: (Optional) Creating volumes with user defaults: CLI
Making Configuration Changes
Administering mirrored volumes
Resizing a volume and a file system
Moving data between systems
Renaming VxVM objects
Labs
Exercise A: Administering mirrored volumes
Exercise B: Resizing a volume and file system
Exercise C: Renaming a disk group
Exercise D: Moving data between systems
Exercise E: (Optional) Resizing a file system only
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
Labs
Exercise A: Preparing for ¡°Defragmenting a Veritas File System¡± exercise
Exercise B: Defragmenting a Veritas File System
Exercise C: Using SmartMove
Exercise D: Observing thin reclamation
InfoScale Availability Basics
High Availability Concepts
High availability concepts
Clustering concepts
High availability application services
Clustering prerequisites VCS Building Blocks
VCS terminology
Cluster communication
VCS architecture 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 an application 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
InfoScale Availability 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
Joining the cluster membership
Changing the interconnect configuration
Labs
Exercise A: Reconfiguring LLT
Exercise B: Observing jeopardy membership