Detailed Course Outline
Cluster Server Basics
High Availability Concepts
- High availability concepts
- Clustering concepts
- High availability application services
- Clustering prerequisites
Labs: Intro Lab
- Exercise A: Viewing the virtual machine
- Exercise B: Verifying network
Labs: Validating Site Preparation
- Exercise A: Performing a CPI pre-installation verification
- Exercise B: Performing a SORT pre-installation verification
Installing and Licensing InfoScale
- Introducing the Veritas InfoScale product suite
- Tools for installing InfoScale products
- Installing Veritas InfoScale Availability
- InfoScale cloud offerings
- Upgrading to InfoScale Enterprise
Labs:
- Exercise A: Installing InfoScale Enterprise using the Common Product Installer (CPI)]
- Exercise B: Running a post-installation check
- Exercise C: Adding cluster systems to VIOM as managed hosts
VCS Building Blocks
- VCS terminology
- Cluster communication
- VCS architecture
- Multi version cluster
Labs:
- Exercise A: Working with the VIOM GUI Dashboard and inventory information
- Exercise B: Exploring the VIOM GUI Licensing option
- Exercise C: Working with the VIOM GUI Settings option
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 a 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
Cluster Server 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
- Cluster startup
- System and cluster interconnect failure
- Changing the interconnect configuration
Labs
- Exercise A: Reconfiguring LLT
- Exercise B: Observing jeopardy membership
Cluster Server Applications
Using I/O Fencing for Application Data Integrity
- Data protection requirements
- I/O fencing concepts
- I/O fencing operations
- I/O fencing implementation
- Fencing configuration
Labs
- Exercise A: Fencing configuration pre-checks
- Exercise B: Configuring VCS for I/O fencing
- Exercise C: I/O fencing configuration verification
- Exercise D: Verifying data disks for I/O fencing
Clustering Applications
- Application service overview
- VCS agents for managing applications
- The Application agent
- IMF support and prevention of concurrency violation
Labs
- Exercise A: Adding a resource of type Application
- Exercise B: Testing the resource
- Exercise C: IMF and Application agent monitoring options
Clustering Databases
- VCS database agents
- Database preparation
- The database agent for Oracle
- Database failover behavior
- Additional Oracle agent functions
Labs
- Exercise A: Verifying the Oracle configuration
- Exercise B: Preparing storage and network resources for the Oracle service group
- Exercise C: Testing the Oracle database manually
- Exercise D: Configuring Oracle under VCS control
- Exercise E: Running a virtual fire drill and switching the Oracle service group
- Exercise F: (Optional) Oracle monitoring
In-Guest Clustering
InfoScale support for Cloud Environments
- InfoScale solutions for cloud environments
- Preparing for InfoScale installations in cloud environments
- Configurations for cloud environments
- Troubleshooting issues in cloud environments
Labs
- Exercise A: Verify S3 server details (sys3)
- Exercise B: Create InfoScale storage support for S3 connector
- Exercise C: Using VIOM deploy Application Migration Add-on
VMware vSphere Data Center Architecture
- VMware vSphere high availability architecture
- VMware administration
- VMware storage architecture
- Server and storage migration
Labs
- Exercise A: Verifying the VMware vSphere lab environment
- Exercise B: Connecting to the nested virtual machines
- Exercise C: Testing vMotion
Veritas High Availability Deployment in VMware
- Veritas high availability architecture in VMware
- Deploying InfoScale Availability on virtual machines
- Configuring the vSphere Web Client for Veritas HA
Labs
- Exercise A: Preparing the nested virtual machine lab environment
- Exercise B: Deploying a Veritas cluster on nested virtual machines
- Exercise C: Adding cluster systems as managed hosts to VIOM
- Exercise D: Installing the VIOM Control Host add-on on mgt
- Exercise E: Adding virtualization information to the VIOM management server
- Exercise F: Installing and registering the Veritas HA Plug-in for vSphere Web Client
Veritas High Availability Configuration and Administration
- Configuring storage for VCS failover cluster
- Configuring shared storage for CFS clusters
- Configuring availability
- Veritas high availability operations
- Just-In-Time Availability solution
Labs – Part A
- Exercise A: Preparing the nested virtual machine lab environment
- Exercise B: Using the vSphere Web Client to monitor Veritas high availability
- Exercise C: Setting EnableUUID parameter for virtual machine disks
- Exercise D: Testing vMotion with Veritas in-guest clustering
- Exercise E: (Optional) Managing the Oracle Disk group configuration
Labs – Part B
- Exercise A: Preparing the nested virtual machine lab environment
- Exercise B: Configuring a shared VMFS datastore
- Exercise C: Configuring virtual and physical RDM disks on sys3
- Exercise D: Creating a service group to manage the virtual and physical RDM disks
- Exercise E: (Optional) Observing vMotion with RDM disks
- Exercise F: (Optional) Enabling shared storage across multiple VMs using physical RDM disks
- Exercise G: (Optional) Aligning the shared
Labs: Challenge Lab (Linux)
- Exercise A: Creating a 4-Node West cluster (VCS type)
- Exercise B: Creating a local mount point (VxFS type) and backup data to S3 server (sys3)
- Exercise C: Using VIOM install Application Migration and Control Host Add-ons