The Veritas InfoScale 7.4.2 Fundamentals for UNIX/Linux Administration course is designed for the IT professional who desires 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 7.4.2 for UNIX/Linux: Administration course and the five-day Veritas InfoScale Availability 7.4.2 for UNIX/Linux: Administration course. This course is a subset of the two courses, and it covers the absolute basics of the two products - InfoScale Storage 7.4.2 and InfoScale Availability 7.4.2. 

This course includes practical hands-on exercises that enable you to test your new skills and begin to transfer them into your working environment.

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.

This course is designed for UNIX/Linux system administrators, system engineers, technical support personnel, network/SAN administrators, and systems integration/development staff, who will be installing, operating, or integrating InfoScale Storage and InfoScale Availability.

Knowledge of UNIX system administration.

PART 1: Veritas InfoScale Storage 7.4.2 for UNIX/Linux: Administration

InfoScale Storage Basics

Installing and Licensing InfoScale

• Introducing the Veritas InfoScale product suite

• Tools for installing InfoScale products

• InfoScale Cloud offerings

• Installing Veritas InfoScale Storage

• Installing Veritas InfoScale Availability

• Upgrading Veritas InfoScale Enterprise

Labs: Introduction

• Exercise A: Viewing the virtual machine configuration

• Exercise B: Displaying networking information

Labs: Installation of InfoScale Storage

• Exercise A: Verifying that the system meets installation requirements

• Exercise B: Installing InfoScale Storage and configuring Storage Foundation

• Exercise C: Performing post-installation and version checks

Virtual Objects

• Operating system storage devices and virtual data storage

• Volume Manager (VxVM) storage objects

• VxVM volume layouts and RAID levels

Labs

• Exercise A: Text-based VxVM menu interface

• Exercise B: Accessing CLI commands

• Exercise C: Adding managed hosts (sys1 and sys2) to the VIOM Management Server (mgt)

Creating a Volume and File System

• Volume layouts

• Creating volumes with various layouts

• Allocating storage for volumes

• 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

Labs

• Exercise A: Creating disk groups, volumes and file systems: CLI

• Exercise B: Removing volumes and disks: CLI

• Exercise C: Destroying disk data using disk shredding: CLI

• Exercise D: (Optional) Creating disk groups, volumes, and file systems: VIOM

• Exercise E: (Optional) Removing volumes, disks, and disk groups: VIOM

Working with Volumes with Different Layouts

• Volume layouts

• Creating volumes with various layouts

• Allocating storage for volumes

Labs

• Exercise A: Text-based VxVM menu interface

• Exercise B: Accessing CLI commands

• Exercise C: Adding managed hosts (sys1 and sys2) to the VIOM Management Server (mgt)

Making Configuration Changes

• Administering mirrored volumes

• Resizing a volume and a file system

• Moving data between systems

• Renaming VxVM objects

Labs

• Exercise A: Administering mirrored volumes

• Exercise B: Resizing a volume and file system

• Exercise C: Renaming a disk group

• Exercise D: Moving data between systems

• Exercise E: (Optional) Resizing a file system only

PART 2: Veritas InfoScale Availability 7.4.2 for UNIX/Linux: Administration

InfoScale Availability Basics

High Availability Concepts

• High availability concepts

• Clustering concepts

• High availability application services

• Clustering prerequisites

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: Displaying cluster information

• Exercise B: Displaying status and attributes

• Exercise C: Performing service group operations

• Exercise D: Manipulating resources

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

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

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