Veritas InfoScale 7.2 Fundamentals for UNIX/Linux Administration Course Outline
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COURSE DESCRIPTION
The Veritas InfoScale 7.2 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 7.2 for UNIX/Linux: Administration course and the five day Veritas InfoScale Availability 7.2 for UNIX/Linux: Administration course. This is a subset of the two courses,
and it covers absolute basics of the two products InfoScale Storage 7.2 and InfoScale Availability 7.2.
This course will NOT prepare you for the certification exams* or the Advanced courses** of both the products.
* Certification exams:
Administration of Veritas InfoScale Storage 7.2 for UNIX/Linux Exam
Administration of Veritas InfoScale Availability 7.2 for UNIX/Linux Exam
** Advanced courses:
Veritas InfoScale Storage 7.x for UNIX/Linux: Advanced Administration
Veritas InfoScale Availability 7.x for UNIX/Linux: Advanced Administration I & II
Duration
Five days
Course Objectives
By the completion of this course, you will be able to:
• 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.
Who Should Attend
This course is for UNIX/Linux system administrators, system engineers, technical support personnel, network/SAN administrators, and systems integration/development staff who want an overview of the Veritas Storage Foundation and Veritas Cluster Server
products.
Prerequisites
Knowledge of UNIX system administration
COURSE OUTLINE
PART 1: Veritas InfoScale Storage 7.2 for UNIX/Linux: Administration
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
Working with Volumes with Different Layouts
• Volume layouts
• Creating volumes with various layouts
• Allocating storage for volumes
Making Configuration Changes
• Administering mirrored volumes
• Resizing a volume and a file system
• Moving data between systems
• Renaming VxVM objects
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
PART 2: Veritas InfoScale Availability 7.2 for UNIX/Linux: Administration
InfoScale Availability Basics
High Availability Concepts
• High availabilitlability application services
• Clustering concepts
• High availability application services
• Clustering prerequisites
VCS Building Blocks
• VCS Terminology
• Cluster communication
• VCS architecture
VCS Operations
• Commn 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
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
Intelligent Monitoring Framework
• IMF overview
• IMF configuration
• Faults and failover with intelligent monitoring
Cluster Communications
• VCS communications review
• Cluster interconnect configuration
• Joining the cluster membership
• Changing the interconnect configuration
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