Objective

You will learn how to use Veritas Cluster Server to manage applications in high availability environment. After gaining the fundamental skills that are needed to manage a highly available application in an existing cluster, you will deploy VCS in a lab environment to implement a sample cluster server installation. In this course you learn to:

• Manage existing highly available application services using Veritas Cluster Server.
• Install VCS and creating clusters.
• Configure service groups and resources.
• Implement and verify failover and failback capability for application, storage, and network services.
• Perform a few ongoing maintenance.

Audience

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.

Minimum Prerequisites

You should have experience as a system and network administrator working in a UNIX environment.

Included Labs

Labs to be provided by the trainer

What will you learn?

• Introduction
• System Concepts
• System Requirements and Set up
• VCS Software Architecture
• Server Communications
• Cluster Set up
• Managing HA Services
• Using VCS GUI
• Agents and Resources
• Testing Failover with a Simple Service Group
• Implementing Basic Service Group
• Basic Agent Optimization
• Creating and linking multiple service groups
• Faults and failovers
• Special situations