Veritas InfoScale Availability 7.3.1 for Windows: Administration -

Veritas InfoScale Availability 7.3.1 for Windows: Administration

Duration: 2 Days (16 Hours)

Overview

Course Details

Prerequisites

Veritas InfoScale Availability 7.3.1 for Windows: Administration Course Overview:

The Veritas InfoScale Availability 7.3.1 for Windows: Administration course is specifically designed for IT professionals who are responsible for the installation, configuration, and maintenance of Veritas InfoScale Availability environments in Windows operating systems. This comprehensive course focuses on how to effectively use InfoScale Availability to manage applications for high availability.

During the course, participants will learn the essential skills required to manage highly available applications in a cluster environment using InfoScale Availability. They will gain a deep understanding of the key concepts, components, and features of InfoScale Availability, and how to apply them to ensure the continuous availability of critical applications.

Participants will also have the opportunity to deploy InfoScale Availability in a lab environment, allowing them to gain practical experience in implementing a sample cluster design and deployment. This hands-on experience will enable them to confidently apply their knowledge in real-world scenarios.

By the end of the course, participants will be equipped with the necessary skills and knowledge to successfully install, configure, and maintain Veritas InfoScale Availability environments in Windows. They will have a solid understanding of managing highly available applications in a cluster using InfoScale Availability, and they will be prepared to implement and support high availability solutions in their organizations.

Intended Audience:

This course is for system administrators, system engineers, technical support personnel, network/SAN administrators, and systems integration/development staff, who will be installing, operating, managing, and working with InfoScale Availability.

By the completion of this course, you will be able to:

Describe how applications are managed in a high availability environment and the key requirements.
Describe VCS architecture.
Install InfoScale Enterprise (Availability and Storage)
Manage applications under the control of VCS service groups.
Manage resources within VCS service groups.
Compare and contrast VCS configuration methods.
Prepare and test applications before placing them under VCS control.
Stop resources and manually migrate an application.
Create a service group using online configuration tools.
Configure notification using the NotifierMngr resource.
Describe how VCS responds to resource faults.
Control fault behavior using resource type attributes.
Recover from resource faults, configure fault notification and triggers.
Learn how to configure IMF.
Describe how components communicate in a VCS environment.
Describe how cluster application services work in a high availability environment.
Describe how agents manage applications in a VCS environment.
Describe how VCS manages Exchange Server, SQL Server and SharePoint Server in a clustered environment.
Describe how VCS manages global cluster components.
Describe how VCS handles intercluster communication failures in a global cluster.
Configure the Global Cluster Option on a running cluster.
Administer global cluster heartbeats.

Cluster Server Basics

High Availability and Clustering Concepts

High availability concepts
Clustering concepts
High availability application services
Clustering prerequisites

Labs:

Exercise A: Connecting to the virtual machines
Exercise B: Verifying network connectivity

VCS Building Blocks

VCS terminology
Cluster communication
VCS architecture

Labs:

Exercise A: Verifying the details of configured iSCSI disks
Exercise B: Performing a SORT pre-installation verification check

Installing InfoScale

Introducing the Veritas InfoScale product suite
Installing InfoScale products

Labs:

Exercise A: Installing InfoScale Enterprise using the Veritas Product Installer (VPI)
Exercise B: Configuring the west cluster
Exercise C: Configuring the east cluster
Exercise D: Adding cluster systems to VIOM as managed hosts

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: Exploring the default

VCS configuration VCS Configuration Methods

Starting and stopping VCS
Overview of configuration methods
Online configuration
Offline configuration
Controlling access to VCS

Labs:

Exercise A: Starting and stopping VCS
Exercise B: Configuring automatic configuration backups
Exercise C: Configuring VCS stop options

Preparing Services for VCS

Preparing applications for VCS
Performing one-time configuration tasks
Testing the application service
Stopping and migrating an application service

Labs:

Exercise A: Configuring storage for an application
Exercise B: Configuring VMDg and MountV resources
Exercise C: Recording MAC address of cluster nodes
Exercise D: Setting up the application
Exercise E: Manually migrating the application
Exercise F: Making the services offline

Online Configuration

Online service group configuration
Adding resources
Solving common configuration errors
Testing the service group
Service group dependencies

Labs:

Exercise A: Creating a service group
Exercise B: Adding NIC and IP resources
Exercise C: Adding VMDg, MountV, and Process resources to a service group
Exercise D: Linking all the resources in a service group
Exercise E: Testing a service group
Exercise F: Setting resources to critical

Offline Configuration

Offline configuration procedures
Solving offline configuration problems
Testing the service group

Labs:

Exercise A: Adding a resource using the command line interface
Exercise B: Testing the FileOnOff resource

Configuring Notification

Notification overview
Configuring notification
Using triggers for notification

Labs:

Exercise A: Configuring SNMP Trap Receiver
Exercise B: Configuring a NotifierMngr type resource on west cluster
Exercise C: Configuring a NotifierMngr type resource on east cluster
Exercise D: Testing notifications

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
Introducing Intelligent Resource Monitoring

Labs:

Exercise A: Modifying the monitor interval of the FileOnOff resource
Exercise B: Observing the result of a non-critical resource fault
Exercise C: Observing the result of a critical resource fault
Exercise D: Observing the result of faults within frozen service groups
Exercise E: Observing the result of ManageFaults and FaultPropagation
Exercise F: Observing the result of RestartLimit behavior
Exercise G: (Optional) Observing Intelligent Resource Monitoring

Cluster Communications

VCS communications overview
Cluster membership
Cluster interconnect configuration
Joining the cluster membership
Changing the interconnect configuration

Labs:

Exercise A: Verifying the low-priority LLT link communication in west cluster

System and Communication Faults

System failures
Cluster interconnect failures

Labs:

Exercise A: Observing VCS response to single LLT link failure
Exercise B: Observing VCS response to multiple LLT link failures (Jeopardy)
Exercise C: Observing VCS response to multiple LLT link failures (Network Partition)

Cluster Server Applications Clustering Applications

Application service overview
VCS Agents for managing applications
The GenericService agent
The ServiceMonitor agent

Labs:

Lab 13a:

Exercise A: Configuring shared storage for a GenericService resource

Lab 13b:

Exercise A: Creating a service group
Exercise B: Adding NIC and IP resources
Exercise C: Adding VMDg, MountV, and GenericService resources to a service group
Exercise D: Linking all the resources in service group websg
Exercise E: Testing the service group
Exercise F: Setting resources to critical

Clustering Exchange Server

Exchange Server in the VCS environment
VCS agent for Exchange Server
Supported Exchange Server configurations
Installing Exchange Server
Configuring an Exchange Server service group

Labs:

Exercise A: Configuring storage for Exchange application
Exercise B: Configuring an Exchange Server service group

Clustering SQL Server

SQL Server in the VCS environment
VCS database agents for SQL Server
Managing registry keys
Installing SQL Server in the cluster
Configuring a SQL Server service group
Monitoring databases

Labs:

Exercise A: Configuring storage for SQL application
Exercise B: Configuring a SQL Server service group
Exercise C: Testing the service group

Clustering SharePoint Server

SharePoint Server in the VCS environment
VCS agent for SharePoint Server
Installing SharePoint Server in a clustered environment
Configuring SharePoint Server service groups
Verifying the SharePoint cluster configuration

Labs:

Exercise A: Configuring a SharePoint Server farm
Exercise B: Configuring a SharePoint Server service group

Global Cluster Option Global Cluster Architecture and Concepts

Global cluster architecture
Global cluster components
VCS features for global cluster management
Inter-cluster communication failure

Labs:

Exercise A: Verifying the lab environment for global clustering
Exercise B: Configuring a local service group on west cluster
Exercise C: Configuring a local service group on east cluster

Configuring a Global Cluster

Configuring the Global Cluster Option
Linking clusters
Configuring a global service group
Managing dynamic DNS updates

Labs:

Exercise A: Configuring GCO on west and east cluster
Exercise B: Linking clusters
Exercise C: Verifying DNS server access from cluster systems
Exercise D: Reconfiguring vcshelper user account on east cluster
Exercise E: Configuring a global service group on west cluster
Exercise F: Configuring a global service group on east cluster

Managing a Global Cluster

Managing clusters in a global cluster environment
Managing global cluster heartbeats
Managing global service groups

Labs:

Exercise A: Testing dynamic DNS updates
Exercise B: Adding another Icmp heartbeat link

Notification and Failover behavior in a Global Cluster

Notification in a global cluster
Failover behavior of a global service group
Cluster state transitions

Labs:

Exercise A: Verifying notification configuration
Exercise B: Testing local failover
Exercise C: Testing intercluster failover with ClusterFailOverPolicy set to Manual
Exercise D: Testing intercluster failover with ClusterFailOverPolicy set to Connected
Exercise E: Testing intercluster failover with ClusterFailOverPolicy set to Auto

Knowledge of and hands-on experience with Microsoft Windows operating system administration is required. Working knowledge networking is also required.

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