Veritas InfoScale 8.0 Fundamentals for UNIX/Linux: Administration
Course Overview
For services that customers use around the clock, two things matter most: the data must stay intact, and the application must stay reachable. Veritas InfoScale training addresses both. The Veritas InfoScale 8.0 Fundamentals for UNIX/Linux Administration course shows administrators how InfoScale Storage protects and manages data, and how InfoScale Availability keeps applications online when servers or components fail.
Data protection starts at the volume. Learners use Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) to group disks and build volumes with layouts suited to the workload. They then add mirrors so a single disk failure does not interrupt service. They practise resizing volumes and file systems as data grows, moving disk groups between systems and renaming storage objects cleanly. Veritas File System (VxFS) topics cover logging for fast recovery, fragmentation control and thin provisioning.
Availability is the second half of the course. Using Veritas Cluster Server (VCS), learners place an application under cluster control by preparing it, creating a service group and adding resources. They test failover and configure notifications, so administrators hear about problems quickly. Lessons on resource faults, the Intelligent Monitoring Framework, and cluster communication explain how the cluster behaves when something goes wrong and how to recover.
This five-day course is a condensed subset of the separate InfoScale Storage 8.0 and InfoScale Availability 8.0 administration courses, focusing on the fundamentals of each.
For organisations handling large volumes of customer data, these skills support fewer outages and faster recovery. Changes to storage can also be made without putting data at risk.
Course Objectives
- Configure mirrored volumes that continue serving data when a disk fails.
- Allocate storage and create volumes with layouts that match workload needs.
- Resize volumes and file systems online as capacity requirements change.
- Move disk groups and data between systems, and rename VxVM objects safely.
- Administer VxFS file systems using logging, defragmentation, and thin provisioning.
- Place an application under VCS control by building its service group and resources.
- Configure notifications and triggers so teams are alerted to cluster events.
- Detect and recover from resource faults using VCS fault-handling and IMF features.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 November 2026 - 27 November 2026 | 5 Days | 4 hours & 8 hours | English / Arabic | |
| 01 March 2027 - 05 March 2027 | 5 Days | 4 hours & 8 hours | English / Arabic | |
| 07 June 2027 - 11 June 2027 | 5 Days | 4 hours & 8 hours | English / Arabic | |
| 13 September 2027 - 17 September 2027 | 5 Days | 4 hours & 8 hours | English / Arabic |
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FAQs
How does mirroring protect data in Veritas Volume Manager?
Mirroring keeps two or more identical copies of a volume on separate disks. If one disk fails, the volume continues working from the remaining copy, so applications keep running while the failed disk is replaced. The course covers creating and administering mirrored volumes, which is one of the most common storage protection tasks in InfoScale environments.
Can I resize storage without taking applications offline?
Yes, InfoScale supports resizing volumes and VxFS file systems while they are in use, in many cases without downtime. This lets administrators add capacity as data grows rather than scheduling disruptive maintenance windows. The course covers the resizing procedures and the checks needed to make sure enough underlying disk space is available first.
How do I move data between systems with VxVM?
VxVM lets administrators deport a disk group from one system and import it on another, taking the volumes and data with it. This is useful when replacing servers or rebalancing workloads. The course covers the steps involved and the precautions that prevent two systems from accessing the same disk group at once.
Who should take the InfoScale course in Dar es Salaam?
The course suits UNIX/Linux system administrators, system engineers, and technical support staff working in organisations that run InfoScale. Network and SAN administrators who provision storage for these systems also benefit. It is particularly useful for teams supporting banking, telecom, and payment platforms, where storage and availability problems have an immediate customer impact.
Is UNIX/Linux experience required for Veritas InfoScale training?
Yes, hands-on UNIX/Linux system administration experience is required before you start. You should be able to manage disks, file systems, services, and basic networking from the command line. The course then builds InfoScale skills on top of that foundation, starting with installation and moving through storage and clustering.
What is thin provisioning in Veritas File System?
Thin provisioning allows storage to be allocated on demand rather than reserved in full up front. VxFS works with thin-provisioned storage and supports thin reclamation, which returns unused space to the storage array. This helps organisations use capacity more efficiently, an important consideration when data volumes grow quickly.
What does the course teach about cluster faults?
The course explains how Veritas Cluster Server responds when a resource faults, what determines how long failover takes, and how fault behaviour can be adjusted. It also covers recovering faulted resources and receiving notifications about them. Labs let learners observe fault behaviour directly, which makes real incidents easier to diagnose.
How does InfoScale Fundamentals support professional development?
The course gives administrators a documented foundation in both InfoScale storage and availability, which can support taking on more responsibility for critical systems. Learners who want to specialise can continue to the full InfoScale Storage 8.0 or InfoScale Availability 8.0 administration courses. Career outcomes depend on experience and employer needs, so no course can guarantee a new role.
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