Overview
The Veritas InfoScale Availability 8.0 for UNIX/Linux: Administration course equips IT professionals with the necessary skills to install, configure, deploy, and maintain Veritas Cluster Server (VCS) clusters. It covers managing high availability environments, applications, and databases, as well as deploying InfoScale Availability in cloud environments. Hands-on labs allow practical application of cluster design and deployment.
Objectives
By the end of this course, leaner will be able to:
- Provide an overview of the InfoScale product suite and InfoScale support for cloud environments.
- Create and configure clusters, service groups, and resources.
- Perform common administrative cluster operations.
- Configure notifications and triggers to customize VCS behavior in response to events.
- Manage applications and databases in a VCS environment.
- Explain InfoScale support for containers and Kubernetes.
- Set up cluster configurations using shared storage for CFS clusters.
Prerequisites
- Knowledge of UNIX/Linux systems administration.
- Experience with system and network management.
- Familiarity with basic clustering concepts.
- Understanding of SAN and storage fundamentals.
- Basic knowledge of high availability concepts.
Course Outline
- High Availability Concepts
- Clustering Prerequisites
- Installing InfoScale
- Labs: Pre-installation Verification
- VCS Terminology and Architecture
- Cluster Communication
- Multi-version Cluster
- Labs: Working with the VIOM GUI
- Common VCS Tools and Operations
- Service Group and Resource Operations
- Labs: Displaying Cluster Information and Service Group Operations
- Configuration Methods
- Controlling Access to VCS
- Labs: Online Service Group Configuration, Offline Configuration Procedures
- VCS Response to Resource Faults
- Fault Notification and Event Handling
- Labs: Observing Non-Critical and Critical Resource Faults