Veritas Flex Appliance 5340: Administration

COURSE OUTLINE

Module 1: Introducing the Veritas Flex Appliance

• Veritas Flex Appliance: Introduction
• Flex Appliance 5340 hardware
• Flex Appliance 5340 software
• Flex Appliance 5340 Management and Monitoring

Module 2: Understanding Flex Appliance Containers

• Container fundamentals
• Docker Basics
• Flex Appliance 5340: Container implementation
• Running NetBackup in a container: Advantages

Module 3: Setting up and working with the Veritas Flex Appliance

• Setting up the Veritas Flex Appliance
• Accessing and using the Flex Appliance Shell
• Accessing and using the Flex Appliance Console
• Troubleshooting Flex Appliance Web Console errors

Labs:

• Exercise A: Performing an initial configuration of Flex Appliance node1
• Exercise B: Performing network configuration of Flex Appliance node2
• Exercise C: Adding Flex Appliance node2 as an additional node to Flex Appliance node1
• Exercise D: Accessing and navigating the Flex Appliance Shell
• Exercise E: Accessing and navigating the Flex Appliance Console

Module 4: Modifying Veritas Flex Appliance settings

• Configuring the network

Labs:

• Exercise A: Creating a network bond – bond0
• Exercise B: Creating a network bond – bond1
• Exercise C: Configuring a network interface: bond0
• Exercise D: Configuring a network interface with VLAN tagging: bond1
• Exercise E: Configuring NTP server on Flex Appliance nodes
• Exercise F: Adding and removing a node from the Hosts file
• Exercise G: Deleting a network bond – bond1

Module 5: Managing Flex Appliance Users

• Working with Tenants
• Managing Users
• Using Active Directory user credentials with the Flex Appliance

Labs:

• Exercise A: Working with tenants
• Exercise B: Managing Flex Appliance console users

Module 6: Working with the Flex Appliance

• Managing applications and upgrade packages in the repository
• Creating application instances
• Managing application instances
• Veritas Flex Appliance: Multiple network support
• Instance upgrade

Labs:

• Exercise A: Add application packages in the repository
• Exercise B: Create a NetBackup master and media server instance
• Exercise C: Upgrade application instances
• Exercise D: Manage application instances

Module 7: Monitoring the Flex Appliance

• AutoSupport and Call Home
• Monitoring the hardware from the Flex Appliance Shell
• Scanning and adding storage
• Troubleshooting

Labs:

• Exercise A: Viewing and configuring Call Home settings
• Exercise B: Deleting and disabling Call Home setting
• Exercise C: Viewing appliance status
• Exercise D: Viewing appliance storage information
• Exercise E: Gathering device logs

Module 8: Reconfiguring the Flex Appliance

• Performing a factory reset

Labs:

• Exercise A: Removing an existing node from a multinode appliance setup
• Exercise B: Performing a factory reset
• Exercise C: Performing a storage reset

Module 9: Flex Appliance: Upgrades and rollbacks

• Flex Appliance: Upgrades
• Flex Appliance: Rollbacks