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Training Course Summary:

The VERITAS Cluster Server course is designed for the
IT professional tasked with installing, configuring, and
maintaining VCS clusters. This five-day, instructor-led,
hands-on class covers how to use VERITAS Cluster
Server to manage applications in a high availability
environment. After gaining the fundamental skills that are
needed to manage a highly available application in a
cluster, you will deploy VCS in a lab environment to
implement a sample cluster design.

By the end of this course, you should 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.

Pre-Requisites:

You should have experience as a system and network
administrator working in a UNIX environment. Experience
developing shell or Perl scripts is helpful.

Who Should Attend:

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 Cluster Server.

Training Course Overview/Content:

VERITAS Cluster Server, Fundamentals
High Availability Concepts
• High Availability Concepts
• Clustering Concepts
• Clustering Prerequisites
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
Installing VCS
• Using the VERITAS Product Installer
• VCS Configuration Files
• Viewing the Default VCS Configuration
• Other Installation Considerations
VCS Operations
• Managing Applications in a Cluster Environment
• Service Group 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
• 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
• Offline Configuration Practices and Tools
• Solving Offline Configuration Problems

Testing the Service Group
Sharing Network Interfaces
• Parallel Service Groups
• Sharing Network Interfaces
• Localizing Resource Attributes
Configuring Notification
• Notification Overview
• Configuring Notification
• Using Triggers for Notification
Configuring VCS Response to 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
• Stopping and Recovering Fenced Systems
Troubleshooting
• Monitoring VCS
• Troubleshooting Guide
• Cluster Communication Problems
• VCS Engine Problems
• Service Group and Resource Problems
• Archiving VCS-Related Files
VERITAS Cluster Server, Example Application
Configurations
Clustering Applications
• Application Service Overview
• VCS Agents for Managing Applications
• The Application Agent
Clustering Databases
• VCS Database Agents
• Database Preparation
• The Enterprise Agent for Oracle
• Database Failover Behavior
• Additional Oracle Agent Functions
Clustering NFS
• Preparing NFS for High Availability
• Testing the NFS Service
• Configuring an NFS Service Group
• NFS Lock Failover
VERITAS Cluster Server, Implementing Local
Clusters
Workshop: Reconfiguring Cluster Membership
• 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
Service Group Interactions
• Common Application Relationships
• Service Group Dependency Definition
• Service Group Dependency Examples
• Configuring Service Group Dependencies
• Alternative Methods of Controlling Interactions
Workload Management
• Startup Rules and Policies
• Failover Rules and Policies
• Configuring Startup and Failover Policies
Alternate Network Configurations
• Alternative Network Configurations
• Additional Network Resources
• Example MultiNIC Setup
Data Center Availability
• Cluster Management Console
• Storage Foundation Management Server
• Disaster Recovery
• Symantec Data Center Foundation