Objectives

• Set up alternative configurations for the public and private networks.
• Use triggers and service group dependencies to control service groups.
• Implement different types of fencing configurations for data protection.
• Reconfigure cluster memberships.
• Customize service group startup, shutdown, and failover.
• Manage system outages.
• Administer campus clusters.
• Upgrade a cluster.

Outline

Reviewing an Existing VCS Environment

• Understanding the VCS architecture
• Building the cluster configuration
• Configuring VCS

Configuring LLT

• LLT over bonded interfaces
• LLT over UDP
• LLT over RDMA
• LLT with different network interfaces
• Manually configuring LLT

Using Multiple Public Network Interfaces

• Configuring multiple service groups with network resources
• MultiNICB and IPMultiNICB
• MultiNICA and IPMultiNIC

Using Triggers to Customize VCS Behavior

• Understanding triggers
• Configuring triggers
• Using multiple trigger scripts
• Controlling applications with triggers

Managing Service Group Dependencies

• Common application relationships
• Service group dependencies
• Service group dependency examples
• Configuring service group dependencies
• Limitations of service group dependencies

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

Using Coordination Point Server for Application Data Integrity

• Coordination point concepts
• Server-based fencing architecture
• CPS operations
• Installing and configuring a CP server
• Configuring I/O fencing with CPS
• Coordination point agent

Administering Fencing Configurations

• Installing and configuring clustered CP servers
• Administering CPS
• Administering disk-based I/O fencing
• Configuring preferred fencing

Reconfiguring Cluster Memberships

• Removing a cluster node
• Adding a cluster node
• Merging clusters

Controlling Application Startup and Shutdown

• Resource online and offline processes
• Cluster startup
• Startup rules and policies
• Limits and Prerequisites

Controlling Application Failover

• Failover rules and policies
• Limits and Prerequisites
• AdaptiveHA

Customizing Application Failover Behavior

• VCS response to resource faults
• Controlling failover with service group attributes
• Controlling failover with resource type attributes

Managing System Outages

• Differentiating between a system shutdown and an outage
• Controlling cluster shutdown
• Controlling applications during a system outage

Administering Campus Clusters

• Disaster recovery solutions with SFHA
• Preparing to set up a campus cluster configuration
• Configuring Storage Foundation for campus clustering
• Configuring a VCS service group for campus clusters
• Testing site-awareness
• Failure scenarios with campus clusters
• Legacy campus clustering

Upgrading Storage Foundation High Availability

• Planning to upgrade SFHA
• Online upgrade
• Full upgrade
• Rolling upgrade
• Phased upgrade
• Finding and installing SFHA patches

Target Audience

This course is for UNIX system administrators, system engineers, technical support personnel, network/SAN administrators, and systems integration development staff, who will be installing, operating, or integrating Symantec Cluster Server.

Prerequisites

You must have administrator-level experience with UNIX or Linux, TCP/IP networking, and clustering using Symantec Cluster Server.