COURSE DESCRIPTION
Course Objectives
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
• Manage existing highly available application services
using Veritas Cluster Server.
• Install VCS and create a cluster.
• Configure service groups and resources.
• Implement and verify failover and failback capability for
application, storage, and network services.
• Configure and optimize cluster behavior.
• Protect data in a shared storage environment.
• Configure VCS to manage an Oracle database, an
NFS share, and other applications.
• Analyze, troubleshoot, and correct cluster problems.
• Implement four-node clusters.
• Configure service group dependencies and workload
management.
• Implement alternative network configurations.
Prerequisites
You must have experience as a system and network
administrator working in a UNIX environment. Experience
developing shell or Perl scripts is helpful.
COURSE OUTLINE
Veritas Cluster Server for UNIX: Install and Configure
(three-day course)
High Availability Concepts
• High availability concepts
• Clustering concepts
• HA application services
• Clustering prerequisites
• High availability references
VCS Building Blocks
• VCS terminology
• Cluster communication
• VCS architecture
Preparing a Site for VCS Implementation
• Hardware requirements and recommendations
• Software requirements and recommendations
• Preparing installation information
• Preparing to upgrade
Installing VCS
• Using the Common Product Installer
• VCS configuration files
• Viewing the default VCS configuration
• Other installation considerations
VCS Operations
• Common VCS tools and operations
• Service group operations
• Resource operations
• Using the VCS Simulator
VCS Configuration Methods
• Starting and stopping VCS
• Overview of configuration methods
• Online configuration
• Offline configuration
• Controlling access to VCS
Preparing Services for High Availability
• Preparing applications for VCS
• Performing one-time configuration tasks
• Testing the application service
• Stopping and migrating an application service
• Collecting configuration information
Online Configuration
• Online service group configuration
• Adding resources
• Solving common configuration errors
• Testing the service group
Offline Configuration
• Offline configuration procedures
• Solving offline configuration problems
• Testing the service group
Configuring Notification
• Notification overview
• Configuring notification
• Using triggers for notification
Handling Resource Faults
• VCS response to resource faults
• Determining failover duration
• Controlling fault behavior
• Recovering from resource faults
• Fault notification and event handling
Cluster Communications
• VCS communications review
• Cluster membership
• Cluster interconnect configuration
• Joining the cluster membership
• Changing the interconnect configuration
System and Communication Faults
• Ensuring data integrity
• Cluster interconnect failures
I/O Fencing
• Data protection requirements
• I/O fencing concepts and components
• I/O fencing operations
• I/O fencing implementation
• Configuring I/O fencing
• Coordination point server
Troubleshooting
• Monitoring VCS
• Troubleshooting guide
• Archiving VCS-related files
Veritas Cluster Server for UNIX: Manage and
Administer (two-day course)
Veritas Cluster Server: Example Application
Configurations (book)
Clustering Applications
• Application service overview
• VCS agents for managing applications
• The Application agent
Clustering Databases
• VCS database agents
• Database preparation
• The database agent for Oracle
• Database failover behavior
• Additional Oracle agent functions
Clustering NFS
• Preparing NFS for high availability
• Testing the NFS service
• Configuring NFS resources
• NFS lock failover
• Alternative NFS configurations
Veritas Cluster Server for UNIX: Cluster Management
(book)
Service Group Dependencies
• Common application relationships
• Service group dependencies
• Service group dependency examples
• Configuring service group dependencies
• Alternative methods of controlling interactions
Startup and Failover Policies
• Startup rules and policies
• Failover rules and policies
• Limits and prerequisites
• Modeling startup and failover policies
Multiple Network Interfaces
• Alternative network configurations
• MultiNICB
• IPMultiNICB
• Example configuration
Data Center Availability
• VCS Management Console
• Storage Foundation Manager
• Disaster recovery
•
Workshop: Reconfiguring Cluster Membership
• Workshop overview
• Task 1: Removing a system from a running VCS
cluster
• Task 2: Adding a new system to a running VCS
cluster
• Task 3: Merging two running VCS clusters
