Veritas Cluster Server 5.x for Windows

Prerequisites:

You should have experience as a system and network administrator working in a Windows environment. Experience developing Perl scripts is helpful.

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.

Upon completion of the course, students will 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

This course includes the following modules:

Veritas Cluster Server, Fundamentals

• High Availability Concepts
• VCS Building Blocks
• Preparing a Site for VCS
• Installing Veritas Cluster Server
• VCS Operations
• VCS Configuration Methods
• Preparing Services for VCS
• Online Configuration
• Offline Configuration
• Sharing Network Interfaces
• Configuring Notification
• Configuring VCS Response to Resource Faults
• Cluster Communications
• System and Communication Failures
• Troubleshooting

Veritas Cluster Server, Example Application Configurations

• Clustering Applications
• Clustering SQL Server 2000
• Clustering Exchange Server
• Clustering File Shares

Veritas Cluster Server, Implementing Local Clusters

• Workshop: Reconfiguring Cluster Membership
• Service Group Dependencies
• Startup and Failover Policies
• Data Center Availability