Course Summary
VERITAS Volume Manager (VxVM) enables an organization to
better manage their disk storage, and increase the size
of their file systems from the standard partitioning model.
The VERITAS File System (VxFS) integrates with VxVM to
provide advanced file system services and facilities.
Combined, these two products form the basis of Storage
Foundation (SF).
VERITAS Cluster Server (VCS) enables an organization to
monitor systems and application services, and to restart
services on a different system when hardware or software
fails. The key to understanding VCS is to learn the various
components and how they interact with one another. These
include: clusters, resources and resource types, service
groups, agents, and communications (GAB and LLT).
Together, these products form the basis of The VERITAS Storage
Foundation HA Suite.
Topics Covered In This Course
VOLUME MANAGER CONCEPTS
- Storage virtualization
- VxVM storage objects
- RAID Levels
INSTALLING STORAGE FOUNDATION AND ACCESSING STORAGE FOUNDATION
INTERFACES
- Installing Storage Foundation
- Storage Foundation resources
- Storage Foundation user interfaces
- Managing the VERITAS Enterprise Administrator Software
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 information
- Displaying disk group information
- Displaying volume configuration information
- Removing volumes, disks, and disk groups
DIFFERENT VOLUME LAYOUTS
- Volume layouts
- Creating volumes with various layouts
- Creating layered volumes
- Allocating storage for volumes
MAKING CONFIGURATION CHANGES
- Administering mirrored volumes
- Resizing volumes and file systems
- Moving data between systems
- Renaming disks and disk groups
- Managing disk group versions
ADMINISTERING FILE SYSTEMS
- Using VxFS commands
- Controlling fragmentation
RESOLVING HARDWARE PROBLEMS
- How VxVM interprets failures in hardware
- Recovering disabled disk groups
- Resolving disk failures
- Managing hot relocation at the host level
USING POINT-IN-TIME COPIES
- Creating and managing traditional volume and file system
snapshots
CLUSTER SERVER CONCEPTS
- High availability (HA) concepts
- Clustering concepts
- Clustering prerequisites
VCS BUILDING BLOCKS
- VCS terminology
- Cluster communication
- VCS architecture
PREPARING FOR VCS IMPLEMENTATION
- Requirements and recommendations for hardware and software
- Preparing for installation
INSTALLING VCS
- Using the VERITAS product installer
- VCS configuration files
- Viewing the default VCS configuration
- Other installation considerations
VCS OPERATIONS
- Managing applications in a cluster environment
- Service group operations
- Using the VCS Simulator
VCS CONFIGURATION METHODS
- Starting and stopping VCS
- Configuration methods
- Controlling access to VCS
PREPARING SERVICES FOR HA
- Preparing applications for VCS
- One-time configuration tasks
- Testing the application service
- Stopping an application service
- Migrating an application service
ONLINE CONFIGURATION
- Adding resources
- Solving common configuration errors
- Testing the service group
OFFLINE CONFIGURATION
- Offline configuration practices and tools
- Solving offline configuration problems
- Testing the service group
CONFIGURING NOTIFICATION
- Notification overview
- Configuring notification
- Using triggers for notification
HANDLING RESOURCE FAULTS
- How VCS responds to resource faults
- Determining failover duration
- Controlling fault behavior
- Recovering from resource faults
- Fault notification
- Event handling
CLUSTER COMMUNICATIONS
- VCS communications review
- Cluster membership
- Cluster interconnect configuration
- Joining the cluster membership
- Changing the interconnect configuration
SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATION FAULTS
- Ensuring data integrity
- Cluster interconnect failures
I/O FENCING
- Data protection requirements
- I/O fencing concepts and components
- I/O fencing operations
- I/O fencing implementation
- Configuring I/O fencing
TROUBLESHOOTING
- Monitoring VCS
- Troubleshooting guide
- Archiving VCS-related files
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What You Can Expect
At the end of this course, delegates will be able to:
- Understand and configure VERITAS Storage Foundation
- Configure and manage disks, disk groups, and volumes by
using VxVM
- Perform online file system administration
- Manage cluster services with VCS
- Describe cluster communications
- Identify faults within a VCS cluster
- Configure service group failover behavior
Who Should Take This Course
This workshop is intended for system administrators and
technical support staff who will be working with VERITAS
Storage Foundation HA.
Recommended Prerequisites
The workshop requires a prior knowledge of UNIX system administration
(specifically Solaris or Linux), including knowledge of
basic UNIX file systems, formatting, partitioning and
associated tools.
Training Style
This workshop introduces the concepts of VxVM and VxFS on
Solaris / Linux. The theory provides the student with
the principles of volume and file system management and
recovery, high availability and clustering concepts. The
practical aspects of the course instruct the delegate
on how to manage various types of volume, file system and
cluster configurations, use of the appropriate administration
tools. This course covers VERITAS Storage Foundation HA
5.x.
Related Courses
| Code |
Course Title |
Duration |
Level |
|
VERVM1 |
Veritas Volume Manager 5.x |
3 Days |
I |
Details |
VERSF |
VERITAS Storage Foundation 5.x Workshop (Solaris / Linux) |
5 Days |
II |
Details |
VERVM2 |
Advanced Veritas Volume Manager |
2 Days |
II |
Details |
VERCFS |
Veritas Storage Foundation Cluster File System 5.x for UNIX |
3 Days |
II |
Details |
VERCSF |
Veritas Cluster Server 6.x Fundamentals Workshop (Solaris / Linux) |
3 Days |
III |
Details |
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