RCS Education

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.

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.

To succeed fully in this course, delegates should be able to:
4	You should have experience as a system and network administrator working in a UNIX environment. Experience developing shell or Perl scripts is helpful.

Upon completion of this course, delegates should be able to:
4	Manage existing highly available application services using VERITAS Cluster Server.
4	Install VCS and create a cluster.
4	Configure service groups and resources.
4	Implement and verify failover and failback capability for application, storage, and network services.
4	Configure and optimize cluster behavior.
4	Protect data in a shared storage environment.
4	Configure VCS to manage an Oracle database, an NFS share, and other applications.
4	Analyze, troubleshoot, and correct cluster problems.
4	Implement four-node clusters.
4	Configure service group dependencies and workload management.
4	Implement alternative network configurations.

VERITAS Cluster Server, Fundamentals
Module 1 - High Availability Concepts
4	High Availability Concepts
4	Clustering Concepts
4	Clustering Prerequisites
Module 2 - VCS Building Blocks
4	VCS Terminology
4	Cluster Communication
4	VCS Architecture
Module 3 - Preparing a Site for VCS Implementation
4	Hardware Requirements and Recommendations
4	Software Requirements and Recommendations
4	Preparing Installation Information
Module 4 - Installing VCS
4	Using the VERITAS Product Installer
4	VCS Configuration Files
4	Viewing the Default VCS Configuration
4	Other Installation Considerations
Module 5 - VCS Operations
4	Managing Applications in a Cluster Environment
4	Service Group Operations
4	Using the VCS Simulator
Module 6 - VCS Configuration Methods
4	Starting and Stopping VCS
4	Overview of Configuration Methods
4	Online Configuration
4	Offline Configuration
4	Controlling Access to VCS
Module 7 - Preparing Services for High Availability
4	Preparing Applications for VCS
4	One-Time Configuration Tasks
4	Testing the Application Service
4	Stopping and Migrating an Application Service
Module 8 - Online Configuration
4	Online Service Group Configuration
4	Adding Resources
4	Solving Common Configuration Errors
4	Testing the Service Group
Module 9 - Offline Configuration
4	Offline Configuration Procedures
4	Offline Configuration Practices and Tools
4	Solving Offline Configuration Problems
4	Testing the Service Group
Module 10 - Sharing Network Interfaces
4	Parallel Service Groups
4	Sharing Network Interfaces
4	Localizing Resource Attributes
Module 11 - Configuring Notification
4	Notification Overview
4	Configuring Notification
4	Using Triggers for Notification
Module 12 - Configuring VCS Response to Resource Faults
4	VCS Response to Resource Faults
4	Determining Failover Duration
4	Controlling Fault Behavior
4	Recovering from Resource Faults
4	Fault Notification and Event Handling
Module 13 - Cluster Communications
4	VCS Communications Review
4	Cluster Membership
4	Cluster Interconnect Configuration
4	Joining the Cluster Membership
4	Changing the Interconnect Configuration
Module 14 - System and Communication Faults
4	Ensuring Data Integrity
4	Cluster Interconnect Failures
Module 15 - I/O Fencing
4	Data Protection Requirements
4	I/O Fencing Concepts and Components
4	I/O Fencing Operations
4	I/O Fencing Implementation
4	Configuring I/O Fencing
4	Stopping and Recovering Fenced Systems
Module 16 - Troubleshooting
4	Monitoring VCS
4	Troubleshooting Guide
4	Cluster Communication Problems
4	VCS Engine Problems
4	Service Group and Resource Problems
4	Archiving VCS-Related Files
VERITAS Cluster Server, Example Application Configurations
Module 17 - Clustering Applications
4	Application Service Overview
4	VCS Agents for Managing Applications
4	The Application Agent
Module 18 - Clustering Databases
4	VCS Database Agents
4	Database Preparation
4	The Enterprise Agent for Oracle
4	Database Failover Behavior
4	Additional Oracle Agent Functions
Module 19 - Clustering NFS
4	Preparing NFS for High Availability
4	Testing the NFS Service
4	Configuring an NFS Service Group
4	NFS Lock Failover
VERITAS Cluster Server, Implementing Local Clusters
Module 20 - Workshop: Reconfiguring Cluster Membership
4	Task 1: Removing a System from a Running VCS Cluster
4	Task 2: Adding a New System to a Running VCS Cluster
4	Task 3: Merging Two Running VCS Clusters
Module 21 - Service Group Interactions
4	Common Application Relationships
4	Service Group Dependency Definition
4	Service Group Dependency Examples
4	Configuring Service Group Dependencies
4	Alternative Methods of Controlling Interactions
Module 22 - Workload Management
4	Startup Rules and Policies
4	Failover Rules and Policies
4	Configuring Startup and Failover Policies
Module 23 - Alternate Network Configurations
4	Alternative Network Configurations
4	Additional Network Resources
4	Example MultiNIC Setup
Module 24 - Data Center Availability
4	Cluster Management Console
4	Storage Foundation Management Server
4	Disaster Recovery
4	Symantec Data Center Foundation