Veritas InfoScale Availability 7.4.2 for UNIX/Linux: Administration (ISAUA)

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