VERITAS Storage Foundation HA 5.x Fundamentals Workshop (Solaris / Linux)

Course: VERHA

Duration: 5 Days

Level: II

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.

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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.

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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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