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Symantec High Availability Fundamentals with Storage Foundation 6.x and Cluster Server 6.x for Unix

  • Course Code HA0419
  • Duration 5 days

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SAR11,250.00

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Course Delivery

This course is available in the following formats:

  • Company Event

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  • Public Classroom

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  • Virtual Learning

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Course Overview

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The Symantec High Availability Fundamentals course is designed for the IT professional who wants an overview of the Symantec Storage Foundation and Symantec Cluster Server products.

This five-day, instructor-led, hands-on class is a condensed version of the four day Symantec Storage Foundation 6.x for UNIX: Administration Fundamentals course and the five day Symantec Cluster Server 6.x for UNIX: Administration Fundamentals course. It covers a subset of the topics in those two courses

Course Schedule

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Target Audience

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This course is for UNIX system administrators, system engineers, technical support personnel, network/SAN administrators, and systems integration/development staff who want an overview of the Symantec Storage Foundation and Symantec Cluster Server products.

Course Objectives

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

  • Install and configure Symantec Storage Foundation High Availability.
  • Configure and manage disks, disk groups, and volumes.
  • Administer file systems.
  • Create a VCS cluster.
  • Configure service groups and resources.
  • Implement and verify failover and failback capability for application, storage, and network services

Course Content

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PART 1: Symantec Storage Foundation 6.x for UNIX: Administration Fundamentals

Virtual Objects

  • Operating system storage devices and virtual data storage
  • Volume Manager storage objects
  • VxVM volume layouts and RAID levels

Installing Storage Foundation and Accessing SF Interfaces

  • Preparing to install Storage Foundation
  • Installing Storage Foundation
  • Storage Foundation resources
  • Storage Foundation user interfaces

Creating a Volume and File System

  • Preparing disks and disk groups for volume creation
  • Creating a volume and adding a file system
  • Sisplaying disk and disk group information
  • Displaying volume configuration information
  • Removing volumes, disks, and disk groups

Working with Volumes with Different Layouts

  • Volume layouts
  • Creating volumes with various layouts
  • Allocating storage for volumes

Making Configuration Changes

  • Administering mirrored volumes 
  • Resizing a volume and a file system
  • Moving data between systems
  • Renaming VxVM objects

Administering File Systems

  • Benefits of using Veritas File System
  • Using Veritas File System commands
  • Logging in VxFS
  • Controlling file system fragmentation
  • Using thin provisioning disk arrays

Managing Devices within the VxVM Architecture

  • Managing components in the VxVM architecture
  • Discovering disk devices
  • Managing multiple paths to disk devices

PART 2: Symantec Cluster Server 6.x for UNIX: Administration Fundamentals

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

  • Hardware and software requirements 
  • Hardware and software recommendations
  • Preparing installation information

Installing VCS

  • Using the Common Product Installer
  • VCS configuration files
  • Cluster management tools

VCS Operations

  • Common VCS tools and operations
  • Service group operations
  • Resource operations

VCS Configuration Methods

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

Preparing Services for VCS

  • 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 examples
  • Offline configuration procedures
  • Solving offline configuration problems
  • Testing the service group

Configuring Notification

  • Notification overview
  • Configuring notification
  • Overview of triggers

Handling Resource Faults

  • VCS response to resource faults
  • Determining failover duration
  • Controlling fault behavior
  • Recovering from resource faults
  • Fault notification and event handling

Intelligent Monitoring Framework

  • IMF overview
  • IMF configuration

Cluster Communications

  • VCS communications review
  • Cluster interconnect configuration
  • Joining the cluster membership
  • System and cluster interconnect failures
  • Changing the interconnect configuration

Protecting Data Using SCSI 3-Based Fencing

  • Data protection requirements
  • I/O fencing concepts
  • I/O fencing operations
  • I/O fencing implementation
  • Configuring I/O fencing

Course Prerequisites

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Knowledge of UNIX system administration.