Veritas InfoScale 7.

3 Fundamentals for UNIX/Linux:

Administration

COURSE DESCRIPTION integration/development staff, who will be installing,

operating, or integrating InfoScale Storage and InfoScale
The Veritas InfoScale 7.3 Fundamentals for UNIX/Linux Availability.
Administration course is designed for the IT professional who
wants an overview of the Veritas InfoScale Storage and
Veritas InfoScale Availability products. Prerequisites
Knowledge of UNIX system administration.
This five-day class is a condensed version of the five-day
Veritas InfoScale Storage 7.3 for UNIX/Linux: Administration
course and the five-day Veritas InfoScale Availability 7.3 for Hands-On
UNIX/Linux: Administration course. This is a subset of the This course includes practical hands-on exercises that
two courses, and it covers the absolute basics of the two enable you to test your new skills and begin to transfer them
products InfoScale Storage 7.3 and InfoScale Availability 7.3. into your working environment.

This course will NOT prepare you for the certification COURSE OUTLINE
exams* or the Advanced courses** of both the products.
PART 1: Veritas InfoScale Storage 7.3 for
* Certification exams: UNIX/Linux: Administration
Administration of Veritas InfoScale Storage 7.3 for InfoScale Storage Basics
UNIX/Linux Exam
Virtual Objects
Administration of Veritas InfoScale Availability 7.3 for  Operating system storage devices and virtual data
UNIX/Linux Exam storage
** Advanced courses:  Volume Manager (VxVM) storage objects
 VxVM volume layouts and RAID levels
Veritas InfoScale Storage 7.x for UNIX/Linux: Advanced
Administration Creating a Volume and File System
Veritas InfoScale Availability 7.x for UNIX/Linux: Advanced  Preparing disks and disk groups for volume creation
Administration I & II  Creating a volume and adding a file system
 Displaying disk and disk group information
Delivery Method(s)  Displaying volume configuration information
This course is available in the following delivery method(s):  Removing volumes, disks, and disk groups
 Instructor-led training (ILT)
Labs
 Virtual instructor-led training (VILT)
 Exercise A: Creating disk groups, volumes and file
 Learning Lab
systems: CLI
 Exercise B: Removing volumes and disks: CLI
Duration
 Exercise C: Destroying disk data using disk shredding:
 Instructor-led training (ILT): 5 days, including 6 months
CLI
of lab access
 Exercise D: (Optional) Creating disk groups, volumes,
 Virtual instructor-led training (VILT): 5 days, including 6
and file systems: VIOM
months of lab access
 Exercise E: (Optional) Removing volumes, disks, and
 Learning Lab – Self-paced lesson guide plus 6 months
disk groups: VIOM
of lab access

Course Objectives Working with Volumes with Different Layouts

By the completion of this course, you will be able to:  Volume layouts
 Install and configure Veritas InfoScale Enterprise.  Creating volumes with various layouts
 Configure and manage disks, disk groups, and volumes.  Allocating storage for volumes
 Administer file systems.
 Create a cluster. Labs
 Configure service groups and resources.  Exercise A: Creating volumes with different layouts: CLI
 Implement and verify failover and failback capability for  Exercise B: (Optional) Creating volumes with user
application, storage, and network services. defaults: CLI

Who Should Attend Making Configuration Changes

This course is designed for UNIX/Linux system  Administering mirrored volumes
administrators, system engineers, technical support  Resizing a volume and a file system
personnel, network/SAN administrators, and systems  Moving data between systems

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 Renaming VxVM objects  Exercise C: Setting non default VCS stop options
Labs Preparing Services for VCS
 Exercise A: Administering mirrored volumes  Preparing applications for VCS
 Exercise B: Resizing a volume and file system  Performing one-time configuration tasks
 Exercise C: Renaming a disk group  Testing the application service
 Exercise D: Moving data between systems  Stopping and migrating an application service
 Exercise E: (Optional) Resizing a file system only  Collecting configuration information
Labs
Administering File Systems
 Exercise A: Configuring and examining storage for the
 Benefits of using Veritas File System service
 Using Veritas File System commands  Exercise B: Examining the application
 Logging in VxFS  Exercise C: Manually starting and stopping the
 Controlling file system fragmentation application
 Using thin provisioning disk arrays
Labs Online Configuration
 Exercise A: Preparing for “Defragmenting a Veritas File  Online service group configuration
System” exercise  Adding resources
 Exercise B: Defragmenting a Veritas File System  Solving common configuration errors
 Exercise C: Using SmartMove  Testing the service group
 Exercise D: Observing thin reclamation Labs
 Exercise A: Creating a service group for the loopy
application
PART 2: Veritas InfoScale Availability 7.3 for  Exercise B: Configuring resources for the loopy
UNIX/Linux: Administration application
 Exercise C: Performing a virtual fire drill on the service
InfoScale Availability Basics group
 Exercise D: Testing the service group
High Availability Concepts
 Exercise E: Setting resources to critical
 High availability concepts
 Exercise F: (Optional) Examining Veritas File System
 Clustering concepts locking by VCS
 High availability application services
 Clustering prerequisites Offline Configuration
 Offline configuration examples
VCS Building Blocks  Offline configuration procedures
 VCS terminology  Solving offline configuration problems
 Cluster communication  Testing the service group
 VCS architecture Labs
 Exercise A: Editing a copy of the main.cf file using a
VCS Operations system editor
 Common VCS tools and operations  Exercise B: Stopping VCS
 Service group operations  Exercise C: Restarting VCS using the edited main.cf file
 Resource operations
Labs
Configuring Notification
 Exercise A: Displaying cluster information
 Notification overview
 Exercise B: Displaying status and attributes
 Configuring notification
 Exercise C: Performing service group operations
 Overview of triggers
 Exercise D: Manipulating resources
Labs
 Exercise A: Configuring and testing the notifier using
VCS Configuration Methods VIOM
 Starting and stopping VCS  Exercise B: Configuring trigger scripts
 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

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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
 Joining the cluster membership
 Changing the interconnect configuration
Labs
 Exercise A: Reconfiguring LLT
 Exercise B: Observing jeopardy membership

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