PART 1: Veritas InfoScale Storage 7.3 for UNIX/Linux: Administration

InfoScale Storage Basics

Virtual Objects

• Operating system storage devices and virtual data storage
• Volume Manager (VxVM) storage objects
• VxVM volume layouts and RAID levels

Creating a Volume and File System

• 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

Working with Volumes with Different Layouts

• Volume layouts
• Creating volumes with various layouts
• Allocating storage for volumes

Making Configuration Changes

• Administering mirrored volumes
• Resizing a volume and a file system
• Moving data between systems
• Renaming VxVM objects

Administering File Systems

• Benefits of using Veritas File System
• Using Veritas File System commands
• Logging in VxFS 

PART 2: Veritas InfoScale Availability 7.3 for UNIX/Linux: Administration

InfoScale Availability Basics

High Availability Concepts

• High availability concepts
• Clustering concepts
• High availability application services
• Clustering prerequisites

VCS Building Blocks

• VCS terminology
• Cluster communication
• VCS architecture

VCS Operations

• Common VCS tools and operations
• Service group operations
• Resource operations

VCS Configuration Methods

• Starting and stopping VCS
• Overview of configuration methods
• Online configuration
• Controlling access to VCS

Preparing Services for VCS

• Preparing applications for VCS
• Performing one-time configuration tasks
• Testing the application service
• Stopping and migrating an application service
• Collecting configuration information

Online Configuration

• Online service group configuration
• Adding resources
• Solving common configuration errors
• Testing the service group

Offline Configuration

• Offline configuration examples
• Offline configuration procedures
• Solving offline configuration problems
• Testing the service group

Configuring Notification

• Notification overview
• Configuring notification
• Overview of triggers

InfoScale Availability Additions

Handling Resource Faults

• VCS response to resource faults
• Determining failover duration
• Controlling fault behavior
• Recovering from resource faults
• Fault notification and event handling

Intelligent Monitoring Framework

• IMF overview
• IMF configuration
• Faults and failover with intelligent monitoring

Cluster Communications

• VCS communications review
• Cluster interconnect configuration
• Joining the cluster membership
• Changing the interconnect configuration