Detailed Course Outline
Storage Foundation Basics
Installing and Licensing InfoScale
- Introducing the Veritas InfoScale product suite
- Tools for installing InfoScale products
- InfoScale Cloud offerings
- Installing Veritas InfoScale Storage
- Installing Veritas InfoScale Availability
- Upgrading Veritas InfoScale Enterprise
Labs: Introduction
- Exercise A: Viewing the virtual machine configuration
- Exercise B: Displaying networking information
Labs: Installation of InfoScale Storage
- Exercise A: Verifying that the system meets installation requirements
- Exercise B: Installing InfoScale Storage and configuring Storage Foundation
- Exercise C: Performing post-installation and version checks
Virtual Objects
- Operating system storage devices and virtual data storage
- Volume Manager (VxVM) storage objects
- VxVM volume layouts and RAID levels
Labs
- Exercise A: Text-based VxVM menu interface
- Exercise B: Accessing CLI commands
- Exercise C: Adding managed hosts (sys1 and sys2) to the VIOM Management Server (mgt)
Creating a Volume and File System
- Volume layouts
- Creating volumes with various layouts
- Allocating storage for volumes
- 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
Labs
- Exercise A: Creating disk groups, volumes and file systems: CLI
- Exercise B: Removing volumes and disks: CLI
- Exercise C: Destroying disk data using disk shredding: CLI
- Exercise D: (Optional) Creating disk groups, volumes, and file systems: VIOM
- Exercise E: (Optional) Removing volumes, disks, and disk groups: VIOM
Working with Volumes with Different Layouts
- Volume layouts
- Creating volumes with various layouts
- Allocating storage for volumes
Labs
- Exercise A: Text-based VxVM menu interface
- Exercise B: Accessing CLI commands
- Exercise C: Adding managed hosts (sys1 and sys2) to the VIOM Management Server (mgt)
Making Configuration Changes
- Administering mirrored volumes
- Resizing a volume and a file system
- Moving data between systems
- Renaming VxVM objects
Labs
- Exercise A: Administering mirrored volumes
- Exercise B: Resizing a volume and file system
- Exercise C: Renaming a disk group
- Exercise D: Moving data between systems
- Exercise E: (Optional) Resizing a file system only
Managing Devices
SmartIO
- InfoScale Storage 7.4.2 SmartIO
- Support for caching on Solid State Drives (SSDs)
- Using the SmartAssist Tool
Labs
- Exercise A: Configuring VxVM caching
- Exercise B: Configuring VxFS read caching
- Exercise C: Configuring VxFS writeback caching
- Exercise D: (Optional) Destroying cache area
Dynamic Multi-Pathing
- Managing components in the VxVM architecture
- Discovering disk devices
- Managing multiple paths to disk devices
Labs
- Exercise A: Administering the Device Discovery Layer
- Exercise B: Displaying DMP information
- Exercise C: Displaying DMP statistics
- Exercise D: Enabling and disabling DMP paths
- Exercise E: Managing array policies
Veritas Dynamic Multi-Pathing for VMware
- DMP in a VMware ESX/ESXi environment
- Managing DMP for VMware
- Administering the SmartPool
- Performance monitoring and tuning using the DMP console
Resolving Hardware Problems
- How does VxVM interpret failures in hardware?
- Recovering disabled disk groups
- Resolving disk failures
Labs
- Exercise A: Recovering a temporarily disabled disk group
- Exercise B: Preparing for disk failure labs
- Exercise C: Recovering from temporary disk failure
- Exercise D: Recovering from permanent disk failure
- Exercise E: (Optional) Recovering from temporary disk failure—Layered volume
- Exercise F: (Optional) Recovering from permanent disk failure—Layered volume
- Exercise G: (Optional) Replacing physical drives—without hot relocation
- Exercise H: (Optional) Replacing physical drives—with hot relocation
- Exercise I: (Optional) Recovering from temporary disk failure with vxattachd daemon
- Exercise J: (Optional) Exploring spare disk behavior
- Exercise K: (Optional) Using the Support Web Site
Cluster File System
Installing InfoScale Storage for using Cluster File System
- SFCFS overview
- SFCFS architecture
- SFCFS communication
- VCS management of SFCFS infrastructure
Labs
- Exercise A: Performing a pre-installation check using the installer utility
- Exercise B: Installing Veritas InfoScale Storage and configuring Cluster File System
- Exercise C: Configuring the Cluster File System component in an environment with pre-installed InfoScale Storage
- Exercise D: (Optional) Performing post-installation and version checks
- Exercise E: Verifying cluster communications
- Exercise F: Adding managed hosts to the VIOM management server
Cluster Volume Manager
- VxVM and CVM overview
- CVM concepts
- CVM configuration
- CVM response to storage disconnectivity
Labs
- Exercise A: Creating shared disk groups and volumes using CLI
- Exercise B: Creating a shared disk group and volume using VIOM
- Exercise C: Converting a disk group from shared to private and vice versa
- Exercise D: Investigating the impact of the disk group activation modes
- Exercise E: (Optional) Observing the impact of rebooting the master node in a storage cluster
Cluster File System
- Cluster File System concepts
- Data flow in CFS
- Administering CFS Flexible Storage Sharing
Labs
- Exercise A: Creating a shared file system – CLI
- Exercise B: Changing the primary node role – CLI
- Exercise C: Placing the shared file system under the storage cluster control – CLI
- Exercise D: Deleting shared file systems and disk groups
Flexible Storage Sharing
- Understanding Flexible Storage Sharing
- FSS storage objects
- FSS case study
- Flexible Storage Sharing implementation
- FSS configuration
Labs
- Exercise A: Administering flexible storage sharing (FSS)
- Exercise B: Testing flexible storage sharing
Replication
Disaster Recovery and Replication Overview
- Disaster recovery concepts
- Defining replication
- Replication options and technologies
- Veritas technologies for disaster recovery
Veritas File Replicator
- Veritas Volume Replicator overview
- Comparing volume replication with volume management
- Volume Replicator components
- Volume Replicator data flow
Labs
- Exercise A: Setting up and performing replication for a VxFS file system
- Exercise B: Restoring the source file system using the replication target
Veritas Volume Replicator Components
- Veritas Volume Replicator overview
- Comparing volume replication with volume management
- Volume Replicator components
- Volume Replicator data flow
Veritas Volume Replicator Operations
- Replication setup
- Assessing the status of the replication environment
- Migration, takeover, and fast failback
Labs
- Exercise A: Preparing storage for replication
- Exercise B: Establishing replication
- Exercise C: Observing data replication
- Exercise D: Migrating the primary role
InfoScale support for Cloud environments
- Overview of InfoScale solutions in cloud Environments
- Preparing for InfoScale installations in cloud environments
- Configurations for cloud environments
- Troubleshooting issues in cloud environments
Labs
- Exercise A: Verify S3 server details (sys3)
- Exercise B: Create InfoScale storage support for S3 connector
- Exercise C: (Optional) Create FSS and SmartIO type storage and backup data to S3 server
Challenge Lab (Linux)
- Exercise A: Create a 4-Node storage cluster (CVM type)
- Exercise B: Create a local mount point (VxFS type) and backup data to S3 server (sys3)
- Exercise C: Create a FSS storage type cluster mount point and backup data to S3 server (sys3)
Appendix A: Working with Erasure coding
- Erasure Coded Overview
- Erasure Coded Architecture
- Erasure Coded volume enhancements in 7.4
- Erasure Coded performance comparison