Veritas InfoScale 8.0 Fundamentals for UNIX/Linux: Administration
Course Overview
A cluster earns its keep on a bad day: a failed server, a broken network link, or a crashed application at peak hours. Veritas InfoScale training prepares administrators for those moments. The Veritas InfoScale 8.0 Fundamentals for UNIX/Linux Administration course covers how InfoScale detects a fault, decides what to do, and moves services to a healthy node, along with the storage foundations that make this possible.
The availability content centres on Veritas Cluster Server (VCS). Learners start with high availability and clustering concepts, the VCS building blocks, and the way cluster nodes communicate. They then run common operations, prepare an application for clustering, and configure service groups and resources. Later lessons look closely at fault handling. Learners see how VCS responds to a resource fault, what affects failover duration, and how fault behaviour can be controlled. They also cover how the Intelligent Monitoring Framework (IMF) detects problems faster than traditional polling, and what happens when the cluster interconnect fails.
None of this works without well-managed storage, so the course also covers InfoScale Storage basics. Learners create Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) disk groups and volumes, work with mirrored layouts, and resize storage. They also administer the Veritas File System (VxFS).
The course is a five-day condensed subset of the separate InfoScale Storage 8.0 and InfoScale Availability 8.0 administration courses.
For operations teams, the result is calmer incident handling. Administrators who understand failover behaviour can read cluster status accurately, recover faulted resources and explain to stakeholders what happened and why.
Course Objectives
- Explain high availability and clustering concepts, and the prerequisites for building a cluster.
- Describe VCS cluster communication and how multi-version clusters are supported.
- Perform common cluster administration tasks, including service group and resource operations.
- Configure service groups and resources for an application using online and offline methods.
- Identify how VCS responds to resource faults and which settings control failover behaviour.
- Configure the Intelligent Monitoring Framework and explain its effect on fault detection.
- Respond to system and interconnect failures, including changes to the cluster interconnect.
- Create and manage VxVM volumes and VxFS file systems that support clustered applications.
Prerequisites
Knowledge of and hands-on experience with UNIX/Linux systems administration is required.
Hands-On
This course includes practical lab exercises that enable you to test your new skills and begin to transfer those skills into your working environment.
Target Audience
- This course is designed for UNIX/Linux system administrators, system engineers, technical support personnel, network/SAN administrators, and systems integration/development staff, who will install, configure, manage, and integrate InfoScale Storage and InfoScale Availability.
Course Content
3 modules · 178 topics01PART 1: Veritas InfoScale Storage 8.0 for UNIX/Linux: Administration68 topics
- 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:
- 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
- Veritas InfoScale Operations Manager (VIOM): Overview
- Labs:
- Exercise A: Using Text-based VxVM Menu Interface
- Exercise B: Accessing CLI Commands
- Exercise C: Adding Managed Hosts to the VIOM Management Server
- Exercise D: Working with the VIOM GUI Dashboard and Inventory Information
- Exercise E: Exploring the VIOM GUI Licensing Option
- Exercise F: Working with the VIOM GUI Settings Option
- Creating a Volume and File System:
- 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: Creating Volumes with Different Layouts (CLI)
- Exercise B: Creating Erasure Coded Volume for Object Store (CLI)
- Exercise C: (Optional) Creating Volumes with User Defaults (CLI)
- 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 Only the File System
- Administering File Systems:
- Veritas File System: Benefits
- Using Veritas File System Commands
- Veritas File System: Logging
- Controlling File System Fragmentation
- Using Thin Provisioning Disk Arrays
- Labs:
- Exercise A: Preparing to Defragment the Veritas File System
- Exercise B: Defragmenting a Veritas File System
- Exercise C: Working with SmartMove
- Exercise D: Observing Thin Reclamation
02PART 2: Veritas InfoScale Availability 8.0 for UNIX/Linux: Administration82 topics
- Cluster Server Basics, High Availability Concepts:
- High Availability Concepts
- Clustering Concepts
- High Availability Applications
- Clustering Prerequisites
- Labs: Introduction:
- Exercise A: Viewing Virtual Machine Configuration Details
- Exercise B: Verifying Network Connectivity
- Labs:
- Exercise A: Performing a CPI Pre-installation Verification
- Exercise B: Performing a SORT Pre-installation Verification
- Labs:
- Exercise A: Installing InfoScale Enterprise Using the Common Product Installer (CPI)
- Exercise B: Running a Post-Installation Check
- Exercise C: Adding Managed Hosts to the VIOM Management Server
- VCS Building Blocks:
- VCS Terminology
- Cluster Communication
- VCS Architecture
- Multi-version Cluster
- Veritas InfoScale Operations Manager (VIOM): Overview
- Labs:
- Exercise A: Working with the VIOM GUI Dashboard and Inventory Information
- Exercise B: Exploring the VIOM GUI License Options
- Exercise C: Working with the VIOM GUI Settings Option
- VCS Operations:
- Common VCS Tools and Operations
- Service Group Operations
- Resource Operations
- VCS Custom Scripts: Operations
- Labs:
- Exercise A: Displaying Cluster Information
- Exercise B: Displaying Status and Attributes
- Exercise C: Performing Service Group Operations
- Exercise D: Manipulating Resources
- VCS Configuration Methods:
- Starting and Stopping VCS
- Configuration Methods: Overview
- Online Configuration
- Controlling Access to VCS
- VCS Password Encryption
- Labs:
- Exercise A: VCS Configuring the State and Stopping VCS
- Exercise B: Configuring Automatic Backup of VCS Configuration
- Exercise C: Setting Non-default VCS Stop Options
- Preparing Services for VCS:
- Preparing Applications for VCS
- Performing One-time Configuration Tasks
- Testing the Application Service
- Stopping and Migrating a Service
- Collecting Configuration Information
- Labs:
- Exercise A: Configuring and Examining Storage for a Service
- Exercise B: Examining the Application
- Exercise C: Manually Starting and Stopping the Application
- Online Configuration:
- Online Service Group Configuration
- Adding Resources
- Solving Common Configuration Errors
- Testing the Service Group
- Labs:
- Exercise A: Creating a Service Group for the Loopy Application
- Exercise B: Configuring Resources for the Loopy Application
- Exercise C: Performing a Virtual Fire Drill (VFD) on the Service Group Exercise D: Testing the Service Group
- Exercise E: Setting Resources to Critical
- Exercise F: (Optional) Examining Veritas File System Locking by VCS
- Offline Configure:
- Offline Configuration Examples
- Offline Configuration Procedures
- Solving Offline Configuration Problems
- Testing the Service Group
- Labs:
- Exercise A: Editing a Copy of the main.cf File Using a System Editor
- Exercise B: Stopping VCS
- Exercise C: Restarting VCS Using the Edited main.cf File
- Configuring Notification:,/b>
- Notification: Overview
- Configuring Notification
- Triggers: Overview
- Labs:
- Exercise A: Configuring and Testing Notifier Using VIOM
- Exercise B: Configuring Trigger Scripts
03Cluster Server Additions28 topics
- Handling Resource Faults:
- VCS Response to Resource Faults
- Determining Failover Duration
- Controlling Fault Behavior
- Recovering from Resource Faults
- Fault Notification and Event Handling
- Labs:
- Exercise A: Observing Non-Critical Resource Faults
- Exercise B: Observing Critical Resource Faults
- Exercise C: (Optional) Observing Faults in Frozen Service Groups
- Exercise D: (Optional) Observing ManageFaults Behavior
- Exercise E: (Optional) Observing RestartLimit Behavior
- Intelligent Monitoring Framework:
- Intelligent Monitoring Framework: Overview
- Intelligent Monitoring Framework: Configuration
- Faults and Failover with Intelligent Monitoring
- Labs:
- Exercise A: Examining IMF Monitoring on a Resource
- Exercise B: (Optional) Examining IMF Default Configuration
- Cluster Communications:
- VCS Communications: Overview
- Cluster Interconnect Configuration
- Cluster Startup
- System and Cluster Interconnect Failure
- Changing the Interconnect Configuration
- Labs:
- Exercise A: Reconfiguring LLT
- Exercise B: Observing Jeopardy Membership
Schedule Dates
4 upcoming batches| Batch Dates | Duration | Batch Options | Language | Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 08 February 2027 - 12 February 2027 | 5 Days | 4 hours & 8 hours | English / Arabic | |
| 10 May 2027 - 14 May 2027 | 5 Days | 4 hours & 8 hours | English / Arabic | |
| 16 August 2027 - 20 August 2027 | 5 Days | 4 hours & 8 hours | English / Arabic | |
| 22 November 2027 - 26 November 2027 | 5 Days | 4 hours & 8 hours | English / Arabic |
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Qatar National Vision 2030 sets out a knowledge-based economy, and the government, energy, and financial institutions behind it run services that people expect to work at any hour. Veritas InfoScale training in Qatar helps UNIX/Linux administrators in Doha, Lusail and Ras Laffan build and support clusters that keep those services available when hardware or software fails. Energy operators running industrial and corporate systems, and banks running payment and customer platforms, both gain from staff who can read cluster status quickly and recover a faulted service with confidence. The course also covers the storage layer, which is often where the cause of an outage is found. Individuals can choose a date from our Doha course calendar, while infrastructure managers can arrange team training at your premises. Contact us for the detailed outline and timing options.
FAQs
How does Veritas Cluster Server detect a failed application?
Veritas Cluster Server uses agents to monitor each resource, such as a disk group, mount point, IP address, or application process. Traditionally, agents check resources at regular intervals. With the Intelligent Monitoring Framework, many resources are monitored through event notifications instead, so faults are detected almost immediately. VCS then follows the configured policy to restart or fail over the service.
What is the cluster interconnect and why does it matter?
The cluster interconnect is the private network that cluster nodes use to exchange heartbeats and status information. If it fails, nodes may lose track of each other, which risks two nodes trying to run the same service. The course explains how InfoScale manages these situations, including jeopardy membership, and how to change the interconnect safely.
Can I change a cluster configuration while it is running?
Yes, VCS supports online configuration, where service groups and resources are changed while the cluster is running. The course also covers offline configuration, where the main.cf file is edited while the cluster is stopped. Learners compare both methods and learn when each is appropriate, as well as how to troubleshoot configuration errors.
Is the InfoScale course in Doha suitable for technical support engineers?
Yes, technical support engineers benefit from understanding how InfoScale storage and clusters behave, especially when they handle escalations. The course shows how to display cluster and service group status, interpret faults, and recover resources. That knowledge shortens diagnosis time and makes handovers to senior administrators clearer and more accurate.
What is the difference between InfoScale Storage and InfoScale Availability?
InfoScale Storage manages disks, volumes, and file systems through Veritas Volume Manager and Veritas File System. InfoScale Availability provides clustering and failover through Veritas Cluster Server. The Fundamentals course introduces both because clustered applications depend on reliable storage, and storage administrators need to understand how their volumes are used by clusters.
What prerequisites does the InfoScale Fundamentals course have?
The course requires knowledge of and hands-on experience with UNIX/Linux system administration. Learners should be comfortable managing disks, file systems, networking, and services from the command line. No previous InfoScale experience is needed, since the course begins with installation, licensing, and the product suite.
Which notification options does VCS provide?
VCS can send notifications about cluster events, such as faults and service group state changes, to administrators through configured notifiers. It also supports trigger scripts, which run automatically when specific events occur. The course covers configuring both, so teams can be alerted promptly and automate routine responses to common events.
What should I do after completing InfoScale Fundamentals training?
Practise the core tasks in a test environment, especially failover testing and recovering faulted resources. Administrators who need deeper skills can then move on to the full InfoScale Availability 8.0 or InfoScale Storage 8.0 administration courses. Applying the skills on real projects usually builds confidence faster than further study alone, though career outcomes depend on each employer.
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