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.
Skills Gained
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.
Who Can Benefit
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.
Prerequisites
You should have experience as a system and network administrator working in a UNIX environment. Experience developing shell or Perl scripts is helpful.
Hands-On
This course includes practical exercises that enable you to test your new skills and begin to transfer them into your working environment.
Code:
VCS_5SOLARIS
Length:
5 days
Type:
Instructor-Led
Certified By:
Symantec :: Veritas
Tuition:
$3,500
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This course is in the following categories. Click the categories to find similar courses and topics of interest.
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
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
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