Veritas InfoScale 8.0 Fundamentals for UNIX/Linux: Administration
Course Overview
When a core banking database or billing platform stops, the cost is counted in minutes. Veritas InfoScale is built to prevent that. It manages the storage beneath critical UNIX/Linux applications and moves them to a healthy server when something fails. Veritas InfoScale 8.0 Fundamentals training gives administrators a working foundation in both halves of the product, storage management and high availability, in a single five-day course.
The course is a condensed subset of two separate five-day classes: Veritas InfoScale Storage 8.0 for UNIX/Linux: Administration and Veritas InfoScale Availability 8.0 for UNIX/Linux: Administration. Rather than covering every advanced option, it focuses on the tasks an administrator needs first.
On the storage side, learners install and license InfoScale, then work with Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) disks, disk groups, and volumes. They build volumes with different layouts, mirror and resize them, move data between systems, and administer the Veritas File System (VxFS), including thin provisioning and fragmentation control.
The availability side introduces Veritas Cluster Server (VCS). Learners study clustering concepts and cluster communication, then build service groups and resources for an application using both online and offline configuration methods. They also configure notifications and triggers, see how VCS responds to resource faults and interconnect failures, and learn how the Intelligent Monitoring Framework (IMF) speeds up fault detection.
In enterprise terms, the course helps teams run storage and clusters consistently, test failover before it is needed, and diagnose faults with confidence.
Course Objectives
- Describe the InfoScale product suite and its cloud support options.
- Install, license, and configure an InfoScale Storage environment.
- Create and manage VxVM disks, disk groups and volumes with suitable layouts.
- Administer mirrored volumes and resize volumes and file systems without disrupting data.
- Administer VxFS file systems, including logging, defragmentation, and thin provisioning.
- Create a VCS cluster and configure service groups and resources for an application.
- Compare online and offline cluster configuration methods.
- Configure notifications and triggers for cluster events.
- Explain how VCS handles resource faults and interconnect failures, and how IMF improves fault detection.
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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Request More InformationInfoScale 8.0 Course in Riyadh and Jeddah for Vision 2030 Critical Systems
As Vision 2030 moves government, banking and energy services online, more Saudi organisations run applications that customers expect to be available around the clock. The National Cybersecurity Authority’s Essential Cybersecurity Controls also ask organisations to plan for resilience and continuity, which makes reliable storage and clustering part of day-to-day operations. Veritas InfoScale training in Saudi Arabia gives UNIX/Linux administrators in Riyadh, Jeddah and Dammam a practical grounding in Veritas Volume Manager, Veritas File System and Cluster Server failover. Telecom operators and financial institutions running large Linux estates will find the service group and fault-handling topics especially relevant. Teams can check upcoming dates on our Veritas InfoScale course calendar or arrange a private InfoScale batch for your data centre team. Review the full course outline and contact our team to plan the right start date.
FAQs
What is the Veritas InfoScale 8.0 Fundamentals course?
Veritas InfoScale 8.0 Fundamentals is a five-day course that introduces both InfoScale Storage and InfoScale Availability for UNIX/Linux. It condenses two separate five-day administration courses into one, covering the essential tasks rather than every advanced feature. It suits administrators who need to support InfoScale environments without first attending two full-length classes.
What experience do I need before joining InfoScale training in Riyadh?
You need knowledge of and hands-on experience with UNIX/Linux system administration. In practice, that means being comfortable at the command line, managing disks and file systems, editing configuration files, and starting or stopping services. Prior knowledge of InfoScale itself is not required, because the course starts with installation and the product suite.
Does the course cover both Volume Manager and Cluster Server?
Yes, the course covers both. The first part focuses on Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) and Veritas File System (VxFS) for storage management. The second part covers Veritas Cluster Server (VCS) for high availability, including service groups, resources, notifications, and fault handling. That combination shows how storage and clustering work together to keep an application running.
Who should attend Veritas InfoScale Fundamentals training?
The course suits UNIX/Linux system administrators, system engineers, and technical support staff who manage or support InfoScale environments. Network and SAN administrators and systems integration staff also benefit because storage layout and cluster communication affect their work. It is a good fit for anyone joining a team that already runs InfoScale in production.
How is this course different from the full InfoScale Storage and Availability courses?
This course is a subset of the two full courses, so it covers the basics of each in five days rather than ten. The full InfoScale Storage 8.0 and InfoScale Availability 8.0 administration courses each go deeper into their area. Learners who need advanced storage or clustering skills later can move on to one of those courses.
What practical skills will I gain from the labs?
Learners practise installing InfoScale, creating disk groups and volumes, and mirroring, resizing, and moving storage between systems. On the cluster side, they build service groups for a sample application, test failover, run a virtual fire drill, and observe how VCS reacts to faults. These exercises prepare administrators for routine work and for diagnosing problems under pressure.
Why does high availability clustering matter for enterprise applications?
Clustering keeps an application available when a server, network link, or storage path fails. Veritas Cluster Server monitors each resource and moves the service to a healthy node when a fault is detected. For banks, telecom operators, and government services, this can turn a long outage into a short, controlled failover with far less impact on users.
Is there an exam or certification included with this course?
No exam or certification is confirmed as part of this course. It is a training programme that builds skills and lab experience in InfoScale storage and clustering. Attending the course does not by itself grant any vendor credential. Learners interested in certification should ask our team about the current options and requirements before enrolling.
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