Veritas Cluster Server™ 5.0 for Windows (Suite)

COURSE DESCRIPTION
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.

Delivery Method
Instructor-led training (ILT)

Duration
Five days

Course Objectives
By the end of this course, you should be able to:
• Manage 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 SQL Server, Exchange Server, and other applications.
• Analyze, troubleshoot, and correct cluster problems.
• Configure service group dependencies and failover policies

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.

Prerequisites
You should have experience as a system and network administrator working in a Windows environment. Experience developing 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.

COURSE OUTLINE

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
• Hardware Requirements and Recommendations
• Software Requirements and Recommendations
• Preparing Installation Information

Installing Veritas Cluster Server
• Using the Symantec Product Installer
• VCS Configuration Files
• Viewing the Default VCS Configuration
• Installing the Cluster Manager Java GUI

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 VCS
• 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
• Using Parallel Network Service Groups
• 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 Failures
• Ensuring Data Integrity
• Cluster Interconnect Failures

Troubleshooting
• Monitoring VCS
• Troubleshooting Guide
• Archiving VCS-Related Files

Veritas Cluster Server, Example ApplicationConfigurations

Clustering Applications
• Application Service Overview
• VCS Agents for Managing Applications
• The GenericService Agent
• The ServiceMonitor Agent

Clustering SQL Server 2000
• SQL Server 2000 in the VCS Environment
• Managing Registry Keys
• The SQL Server 2000 Agent
• Installing a SQL Server in the Cluster
• Configuring a SQL Server 2000 Service Group
• Alternative Configurations

Clustering Exchange Server
• Exchange Server in the VCS Environment
• Configuring the Domain Controller
• Installing Exchange Server
• Configuring an Exchange Service Group

Clustering File Shares
• Preparing File Shares for High Availability
• VCS Resources for Managing File Shares
• Using the FileShare Configuration Wizard

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

Configuring Service Group Interactions
• Common Application Relationships
• Service Group Dependencies
• Service Group Dependency Examples
• Configuring Service Group Dependencies
• Alternative Methods of Controlling Interactions

Startup and Failover Policies
• Startup Rules and Policies
• Failover Rules and Policies
• Configuring Startup and Failover Policies

Data Center Availability
• Cluster Management Console
• Storage Foundation Management Server
• Disaster Recovery