Veritas Access 3340 Appliance (7.4.2): Administration

COURSE OUTLINE

Module 0: Course Introduction

• About this course
• Education and support resources

Module 1: Introducing the Access 3340 Appliance

• Access 3340: Overview
• Supported Operating Systems (7.4.2)
• Access appliance overview and use cases
• Access appliance software overview
• Access appliance hardware overview

Labs:

• Exercise A: Reviewing the Veritas Access 3340 Appliance hardware
• Exercise B: Understanding the simulated lab environment
• Exercise C: Accessing the lab environment
• Exercise D: Preparing for cluster configuration
• Exercise E: (Optional) Performing an Access patch verification check on SORT

Module 2: Configuring the Appliance Cluster

• Preparing for configuration
• Configuring the appliance for the first time
• Deployment Enhancements
• Validating the configuration using Veritas Access interfaces

Labs:

• Exercise A: Configuring the Veritas Access cluster
• Exercise B: Verifying the cluster configuration

Module 3: Provisioning Storage for NetBackup using the Getting Started Wizard

• Configuring storage
• Configuring the S3 server
• Activating an LTR policy
• Generating S3 keys
• Provisioning an S3 bucket
• Reviewing the storage configuration

Labs: 

• Exercise A: Using the Veritas Access Appliance Setup wizard
• Exercise B: Observing the configuration using Veritas Access GUI
• Exercise C: Navigating the Veritas Access Command Line Shell (CLISH)

Module 4: Using the Access Appliance in a NetBackup Domain

• Configuring Access as a cloud storage server
• Configuring the Access Appliance as a primary backup target for verification
• Configuring the Access Appliance as a LTR Target
• Integrating appliances in a NetBackup environment
• Performing backups and restores with appliances
• Veritas Data Deduplication (7.4.2)
• Benefits of MSDP Integration (7.4.2)

Labs:

• Exercise A: Preparing the NetBackup servers
• Exercise B: Configuring the cloud storage server with CloudCatalyst
• Exercise C: Using the Access Appliance as the primary backup target with deduplication
• Exercise D: Using the Access Appliance for long-term retention
• Exercise E: (Optional) Configuring the cloud storage server without CloudCatalyst
• Exercise F: (Optional) Using the Access Appliance as the primary backup target without deduplication

Module 5: Provisioning Storage

• Overview of storage provisioning in Veritas Access
• Administering storage pools
• Displaying disk information
• Protecting data using I/O fencing
• Different storage protocols support
• Storage provisioning in Access Appliance

Labs:

• Exercise A: Using the Access CLISH to create a storage pool
• Exercise B: Using the Access GUI to create a storage pool

Module 6: Creating File Systems

• File systems in Veritas Access Appliance
• Creating a file system
• Modifying and deleting a file system
• Checking and repairing a file system

Labs:

• Exercise A: Creating a file system using the Access GUI
• Exercise B: Creating a file system using the Access CLISH

Module 7: Configuring Veritas Access Shares

• Introducing file sharing protocols
• Configuring authentication
• Using Veritas Access as a CIFS server
• Using Veritas Access as an S3 server

Labs:

• Exercise A: Enabling Active Directory authentication
• Exercise B: Creating a CIFS share using the Access CLISH
• Exercise C: Accessing the CIFS share from the client system
• Exercise D: Creating S3 objects
• Exercise E: (Optional) Using Active Directory accounts for S3 shares

Module 8: Using Cloud as a Tier for Scale-out File System

• Cloud tiering overview
• Architecture
• Using a cloud as a tier in AWS
• Moving files between tiers
• Using data movement policies
• Monitoring data usage in the cloud tier

Labs:

• Exercise A: Creating a scale-out file system with a cloud tier
• Exercise B: Migrating files to the cloud
• Exercise C: Creating a data movement policy
• Exercise D: Scheduling data movement policies
• Exercise E: Removing the policies from a scale-out file system
• Exercise F: Using multi-cloud tiering

Additional Labs:

• Exercise A: Creating NBU user Active Directory account for S3
• Exercise B: Configuring Veritas Access for LTR to cloud
• Exercise C: Configuring NetBackup to use Veritas Access storage
• Exercise D: Verifying the configuration
• Exercise E: Removing the cloud tier from the scale-out file system used for NetBackup

Module 9: Using the Access Appliance as an Archiving Target

• Veritas Access Appliance integration with Enterprise Vault
• Provisioning primary storage for Enterprise Vault
• Provisioning secondary storage for Enterprise Vault
• Replicating Data storage for Enterprise Vault

Labs: 

• Exercise A: Configuring simple file system (cifs share) for evserver
• Exercise B: Exercise B: Configuring Primary Storage (evserver) on Access appliance
• Exercise C: Performing an archiving data tasks on Access appliance
• Exercise D: Configuring Secondary Storage (evserver) on Access appliance

Module 10: Monitoring Appliance Health

Configuring event notifications

• Monitoring with Veritas Remote Management
• Monitoring with the Appliance Shell Menu (CLISH)
• Monitoring with Access CLISH
• Monitoring with the Appliance GUI
• Using Veritas AutoSupport

Labs: 

• Exercise A: Monitoring the Access Appliance with Access GUI
• Exercise B: Monitoring the Access Appliance with Access CLISH
• Exercise C: (Optional) Monitoring the AutoSupport details with Access SHELL menu interface

Module 11: Maintaining the Access Appliance

• Configuring User Roles
• Configuring LDAP and AD Authentication
• Maintaining Storage
• Maintaining Appliance Security

Labs: 

• Exercise A: Checking the storage details from Access CLISH interface
• Exercise B: Checking the Appliance network details from Access CLISH interface

Module 12: Troubleshooting the Access Appliance

• Appliance Online Resources
• Appliance Physical Inspection
• Resolving common hardware faults
• Viewing and gathering appliance log files

Labs: 

• Exercise A: Checking the hardware details from Access Appliance Shell menu interface
• Exercise B: Checking the Appliance log details from Access Shell menu interface

Module 13: Reconfiguring the Access Appliance

• Access appliance factory reset overview
• Performing a single node factory reset
• Performing a full appliance cluster factory reset
• Managing software and storage

Labs: 

• Exercise A: Checking the Appliance software details from Access Appliance SHELL menu interface
• Exercise B: Checking the Appliance support details from Access Shell menu interface