Veritas Cluster Server 6 for Unix Admin Fundamentals Course Outline

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Course Description
The Symantec Cluster Server 6.x for UNIX: Administration Fundamentals course is designed for the IT professional tasked with installing, configuring, and maintaining Symantec Cluster Server (VCS) clusters.

This five day, Virtual Academy, hands-on class covers how to use Symantec 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 can deploy VCS in a lab environment to implement a sample cluster design.

Course Objectives
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
• 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 and other applications.
• Describe LLT over RDMA supported connections.
• Observe the benefits of AdaptiveHA.
• Describe multi-site management.

Who Should Attend
This course is for UNIX system administrators, system engineers, technical support personnel, network/SAN administrators, and systems integration/development staff, and who will be installing, operating, or integrating Symantec Cluster Server.

Prerequisites
Knowledge of UNIX system administration.

Course Outline

PART 1: Symantec Cluster Server 6.x for UNIX: Administration Fundamentals
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
• Hardware and software requirements
• Hardware and software recommendations
• Preparing installation information

Installing VCS
• Using the Common Product Installer
• VCS configuration files
• Cluster management tools

VCS Operations
• Common VCS tools and operations
• Service group operations
• Resource operations

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

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

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

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

Configuring Notification
• Notification overview
• Configuring notification
• Overview of triggers

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

Intelligent Monitoring Framework
• IMF overview
• IMF configuration

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

Protecting Data Using SCSI 3-Based Fencing
• Data protection requirements
• I/O fencing concepts
• I/O fencing operations
• I/O fencing implementation
• Configuring I/O fencing

Clustering Applications
• Application service overview
• VCS agents for managing applications
• The Application agent
• IMF support and prevention of concurrency violation

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

PART 2: Storage Foundation High Availability for UNIX: What's New

Introduction to the New Features and Enhancements
• CPI enhancements

New Features and Enhancements in the High Availability Solutions
• LLT RDMA enhancements
• AdaptiveHA
• VBS enhancements
• CPS using HTTPS
• Multi-site management

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