Veritas Storage Foundation and Veritas Cluster Server for Windows (HA0432)

Part 1: Veritas Storage Foundation 6.0: Install and Configure

Virtual Objects

• Physical and virtual data storage
• SFW storage objects
• SFW RAID levels and volume layouts

Installing and Accessing SFW Interfaces

• Storage Foundation 6.0 for Windows: Overview
• Installation prerequisites
• Installing SFW 6.0
• Upgrading to SFW 6.0
• SFW user interfaces

Working with Disk Groups and Volumes

• Preparing disks and disk groups for volume creation
• Creating a volume
• Adding a file system to an existing volume
• Displaying disk and disk group information
• Displaying volume configuration information
• Removing volumes, disks, and disk groups

Working with Volumes with Different Layouts

• Comparing volume layouts
• Creating volumes with various layouts
• Creating a partition and logical drive

Part 2: Veritas Storage Foundation 6.0: Manage and Administer

Making Configuration Changes

• Administering mirrored volumes
• Resizing a volume
• Changing a drive letter or path
• Moving data between systems
• Upgrading a dynamic disk group

Implementing Offline and Off-Host Processing

• Offline and off-host processing tasks
• Creating a volume snapshot
• Performing dynamic disk group split and join
• Enabling FastResync
• Implementing off-host processing

Using Recovery Features

• Monitoring objects and events
• Maintaining data consistency
• Configuration backup and restore
• Managing hot relocation at the host level
• Troubleshooting disk replacement and recovered volumes

Managing Performance

• Monitoring I/O
• Setting capacity monitoring parameters
• Changing the volume layout
• Setting caching for volumes
• Using SmartMove
• Manipulating subdisks and disks

Administering DMP

• Overview of dynamic multipathing
• Managing arrays, individual disks, and paths
• Specifying load balancing settings
• Specifying control timer settings for an array
• Investigating backup mode

Part 3: Veritas Cluster Server 6.0: Install and Configure

High Availability and Clustering Concepts

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

VCS Building Blocks

• VCS terminology
• Cluster communication
• VCS architecture

Preparing a Site for VCS

• Hardware requirements and recommendations
• Software requirements and recommendations
• Licensing scheme
• Preparing installation information

Installing and Upgrading VCS

• Installing VCS
• Upgrading VCS
• Configuring VCS
• Viewing the default VCS configuration
• Installing the Cluster Manager Java GUI

VCS Operations

• Common VCS tools and operations
• Service group operations
• Resource operations
• Using a VCS simulator

VCS Configuration Methods

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

Preparing Services for VCS

• Performing one-time configuration tasks
• Testing the application service
• Stopping and migrating an application service

Online Configuration

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

Offline Configuration

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

Configuring Notification

• Introducing the notification resource
• Configuring notification
• Using triggers for notification

Handling Resource Faults

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

Cluster Communications

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

System and Communication Faults

• System failures
• Cluster interconnect failures

Monitoring and Troubleshooting

• Monitoring VCS
• Troubleshooting guide
• Archiving VCS-related files
• Configuring the disaster recovery solution for Hyper-V
• Miscellaneous tasks