Symantec High Availability Fundamentals with Veritas Storage Foundation 5.1 & Veritas Cluster Server 5.1 for Windows (SFHAW)

This course is for system administrators, system engineers, network administrators, system integration or development staff, and technical support personnel who will be working with Veritas Storage Foundation and Veritas Cluster Server.

You must have experience as a system and network administrator working in a Windows environment. Experience in developing Perl scripts is helpful.

PART 1: Veritas Storage Foundation 5.1 – Install and Configure

Virtual Objects

• Physical and Virtual Data Storage
• SFW Storage Objects
• SFW RAID Levels and Volume Layouts

Installing and Accessing SFW Interfaces

• Installation Prerequisites
• Adding License Keys
• SFW Software Packages
• Installing SFW
• SFW User Interfaces

Working with Disk Groups and Volumes

• Preparing Disks and Disk Groups for Volume Creation
• Creating a Volume
• Adding a File System to an Existing Volume
• Displaying Disk and Disk Group Information
• Displaying Volume Configuration Information
• Removing Volumes, Disks, and Disk Groups

Working with Volumes with Different Layouts

• Comparing Volume Layouts
• Creating Volumes with Various Layouts
• Creating a Partition and Logical Drive

PART 2: Veritas Storage Foundation 5.1 – Manage and Administer

Making Configuration Changes

• Administering Mirrored Volumes
• Resizing a Volume
• Changing a Drive Letter or Path
• Moving Data Between Systems
• Upgrading a Dynamic Disk Group

Implementing Offline and Off-Host Processing

• Offline and Off-Host Processing Tasks
• Creating a Volume Snapshot
• Performing Dynamic Disk Group Split and Join
• Enabling FastResync
• Implementing Off-Host Processing

Using Recovery Features

• Monitoring Objects and Events
• Maintaining Data Consistency
• Configuration Backup and Restore
• Managing Hot Relocation at the Host level
• Troubleshooting Disk Replacement and Recovered Volumes

Managing Performance

• Monitoring I/O
• Setting Capacity Monitoring Parameters
• Changing the Volume Layout
• Setting Caching for Volumes
• Using SmartMove
• Manipulating Subdisks and Disks

Administering DMP

• Overview of Dynamic Multipathing
• Managing Arrays, Individual Disks, and Paths
• Specifying Load Balancing Settings
• Specifying Control Timer Settings for an Array

PART 3: Veritas Cluster Server 5.1 – Install and Configure

High Availability Concepts

• High Availability Concepts
• Clustering Concepts
• High Availability Application Services
• Clustering Prerequisites

VCS Building Blocks

• VCS Terminology
• Cluster Communication
• VCS Architecture

Preparing a Site for VCS

• Hardware Requirements and Recommendations
• Software Requirements and Recommendations
• Preparing Installation Information

Installing VCS

• Using the Symantec Product Installer
• VCS Configuration Files
• Viewing the Default VCS Configuration
• Installing the Cluster Manager Java GUI

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 VCS

• Preparing Applications for VCS
• Performing One-Time Configuration Tasks
• Testing the Application Service
• Stopping and Migrating an Application Service

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 Failures

• System Failures
• Cluster Interconnect Failures

Troubleshooting

• Monitoring VCS
• Troubleshooting Guide
• Archiving VCS-Related Files