Veritas InfoScale Storage 7.4.2 for UNIX Linux Administration
Course Description
The Veritas InfoScale Storage 7.4.2 for UNIX/Linux: Administration course is designed for IT professionals tasked with installing, configuring, and maintaining Veritas InfoScale Storage environments, including Volume Manager (VxVM), File System (VxFS), Cluster File System (CFS), and InfoScale support for Cloud environments.
This course covers how to use InfoScale Storage to manage disks, disk groups, and volumes using a variety of InfoScale Storage user interfaces, including the Veritas InfoScale Operations Manager (VIOM) Web console. It also discussed the basics of online file system administration and recovery from disk failures. In addition, the course covers data replication using Veritas File Replicator and Veritas Volume Replicator. The course also describes how to configure Veritas Cluster Volume Manager and Veritas Cluster File System.
Delivery Method(s)
This course is available in the following delivery method(s):
• Instructor-led training (ILT)
• Virtual instructor-led training (VILT)
• Learning Lab
Duration
• Instructor-led training (ILT): 5 days, including 6 months of lab access
• Virtual instructor-led training (VILT): 5 days, including 6 months of lab access
• Learning Lab – Self-paced lesson guide plus 6 months of lab access
Course Objectives
After the completion of this course, you will be able to:
• Install and configure the InfoScale Storage environment.
• Create, configure, and manage disks, disk groups, and volumes.
• Administer file systems and manage components in the VxVM architecture.
• Manage multiple paths to disk devices.
• Identify types of disk failures and how to resolve them.
• Describe concepts and components specific to Veritas Volume Replicator and Veritas File Replicator.
• Configure a CFS cluster according to a specified sample design.
• Configure shared disk groups, shared volumes, and shared file systems.
• Share local disks among systems in a cluster (FSS type storage support).
• Describe InfoScale support for Cloud Environments.
• Describe SmartIO support for FSS type storage in Cloud deployments.
Who Should Attend
This course is designed for UNIX/Linux system administrators, system engineers, technical support
personnel, network/SAN administrators, and systems integration/development staff, who will install, configure, manage and integrate InfoScale Storage.
Prerequisites
Knowledge of and hands-on experience with UNIX/Linux systems administration is required.
Hands-On
This course includes practical lab exercises that enable you to test your new skills and begin to transfer those skills into your working environment.
COURSE OUTLINE
Storage Foundation Basics
Installing and Licensing InfoScale
• Introducing the Veritas InfoScale product suite
• Tools for installing InfoScale products
• InfoScale Cloud offerings
• Installing Veritas InfoScale Storage
• Installing Veritas InfoScale Availability
• Upgrading Veritas InfoScale Enterprise
Labs: Introduction
• Exercise A: Viewing the virtual machine configuration
• Exercise B: Displaying networking information
Labs: Installation of InfoScale Storage
• Exercise A: Verifying that the system meets installation requirements
• Exercise B: Installing InfoScale Storage and configuring Storage Foundation
• Exercise C: Performing post-installation and version checks
Virtual Objects
• Operating system storage devices and virtual data storage
• Volume Manager (VxVM) storage objects
• VxVM volume layouts and RAID levels
Labs
• Exercise A: Text-based VxVM menu interface
• Exercise B: Accessing CLI commands
• Exercise C: Adding managed hosts (sys1 and sys2) to the VIOM Management Server (mgt)
Creating a Volume and File System
• Volume layouts
• Creating volumes with various layouts
• Allocating storage for volumes
• Preparing disks and disk groups for volume creation
• Creating a volume and adding a file system
• Displaying disk and disk group information
• Displaying volume configuration information
• Removing volumes, disks, and disk groups
Labs
• Exercise A: Creating disk groups, volumes and file systems: CLI
• Exercise B: Removing volumes and disks: CLI
• Exercise C: Destroying disk data using disk shredding: CLI
• Exercise D: (Optional) Creating disk groups, volumes, and file systems: VIOM
• Exercise E: (Optional) Removing volumes, disks, and disk groups: VIOM
Working with Volumes with Different Layouts
• Volume layouts
• Creating volumes with various layouts
• Allocating storage for volumes
Labs
• Exercise A: Text-based VxVM menu interface
• Exercise B: Accessing CLI commands
• Exercise C: Adding managed hosts (sys1 and sys2) to the VIOM Management Server (mgt)
Making Configuration Changes
• Administering mirrored volumes
• Resizing a volume and a file system
• Moving data between systems
• Renaming VxVM objects
Labs
• Exercise A: Administering mirrored volumes
• Exercise B: Resizing a volume and file system
• Exercise C: Renaming a disk group
• Exercise D: Moving data between systems
• Exercise E: (Optional) Resizing a file system only
Managing Devices
SmartIO
• InfoScale Storage 7.4.2 SmartIO
• Support for caching on Solid State Drives (SSDs)
• Using the SmartAssist Tool
Labs
• Exercise A: Configuring VxVM caching
• Exercise B: Configuring VxFS read caching
• Exercise C: Configuring VxFS writeback caching
• Exercise D: (Optional) Destroying cache area
Dynamic Multi-Pathing
• Managing components in the VxVM architecture
• Discovering disk devices
• Managing multiple paths to disk devices
Labs
• Exercise A: Administering the Device Discovery Layer
• Exercise B: Displaying DMP information
• Exercise C: Displaying DMP statistics
• Exercise D: Enabling and disabling DMP paths
• Exercise E: Managing array policies
Veritas Dynamic Multi-Pathing for VMware
• DMP in a VMware ESX/ESXi environment
• Managing DMP for VMware
• Administering the SmartPool
• Performance monitoring and tuning using the DMP console
Resolving Hardware Problems
• How does VxVM interpret failures in hardware?
• Recovering disabled disk groups
• Resolving disk failures
Labs
• Exercise A: Recovering a temporarily disabled disk group
• Exercise B: Preparing for disk failure labs
• Exercise C: Recovering from temporary disk failure
• Exercise D: Recovering from permanent disk failure
• Exercise E: (Optional) Recovering from temporary disk failure—Layered volume
• Exercise F: (Optional) Recovering from permanent disk failure—Layered volume
• Exercise G: (Optional) Replacing physical drives—without hot relocation
• Exercise H: (Optional) Replacing physical drives—with hot relocation
• Exercise I: (Optional) Recovering from temporary disk failure with vxattachd daemon
• Exercise J: (Optional) Exploring spare disk behavior
• Exercise K: (Optional) Using the Support Web Site
Cluster File System
Installing InfoScale Storage for using Cluster File System
• SFCFS overview
• SFCFS architecture
• SFCFS communication
• VCS management of SFCFS infrastructure
Labs
• Exercise A: Performing a pre-installation check using the installer utility
• Exercise B: Installing Veritas InfoScale Storage and configuring Cluster File System
• Exercise C: Configuring the Cluster File System component in an environment with pre-installed InfoScale Storage
• Exercise D: (Optional) Performing post-installation and version checks
• Exercise E: Verifying cluster communications
• Exercise F: Adding managed hosts to the VIOM management server
Cluster Volume Manager
• VxVM and CVM overview
• CVM concepts
• CVM configuration
• CVM response to storage disconnectivity
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