Detailed Course Outline
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
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
Using I/O Fencing for Application Data Integrity
- Data protection requirements
- I/O fencing concepts
- I/O fencing operations
- I/O fencing implementation
- Fencing configuration
Clustering Applications
- Application service overview
- VCS agents for managing applications
- The Application agent
- IMF support and prevention of concurrency violation
Clustering Databases
- VCS database agents
- Database preparation
- The database agent for Oracle
- Database failover behavior
- Additional Oracle agent functions
VMware vSphere Data Center Architecture
- VMware vSphere high availability architecture
- VMware administration
- VMware storage architecture
- Server and storage migration
Veritas High Availability Deployment in VMware
- Veritas high availability architecture in VMware
- Deploying Veritas InfoScale on VMs
- Configuring VIOM to manage InfoScale on VMs
- Configuring the vSphere Web Client for Veritas HA
Veritas High Availability Configuration and Administration
- Configuring storage for VCS failover clusters
- Configuring shared storage for CFS clusters
- Configuring availability
- Just In Time Availability solution