Sun StorEdge Availability Suite 3.1 Install, Configure, and Troubleshoot (ES-476)

Who Can Benefit

• Sun Professional Services engineers
• Customers, partners and resellers responsible for installation, configuration, operation and best practices of the Availability Suite software
• On-site hardware installation and configuration engineers
• On-site customer support engineers
• Phone support engineers

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Prerequisites

• Edit files using an editor available in the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS)
• Execute commands using a command-line interface
• Use man pages
• Identify, locate, download and install patches
• Administer volumes using the VERITAS Volume Manager (VxVM) software
• Explain the following terms:
  • Random array of independent disks, or RAID (both hardware and software)
  • Fibre Channel
  • Storage area network (SAN)
• Identify the following Sun products:
  • Sun StorEdge(TM) T3 array
  • Sun StorEdge(TM) A5x00 array
  • Sun StorEdge(TM) Acx00FC array

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Skills Gained

• Install the Availability Suite software
• Recover from selected data service application failures
• Identify common installation and configuration problems
• Configure the Point-In-Time software volume sets
• Perform Point-In-Time Copy software copy and update operations
• Configure the Remote Mirror software volume sets
• Perform Remote Mirror software copy and update operations
• Interpret data service status and configuration information
• Interpret volume set status and configuration information
• Implement a business continuation configuration
• Recover from a simulated site disaster
• Tune the Point-In-Time Copy and Remote Mirror software parameters for optimum performance

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Related Courses

Before:

• VERITAS Volume Manager 4.0 Administration (was Sun StorEdge Volume Manager Administraton) (ES-310)
• Intermediate System Administration for the Solaris 9 Operating System (SA-239)
• Sun Storage Systems Maintenance (SM-250)

After:

• Sun Cluster 3.0 Administration (ES-333)

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Course Content

Module 1 - Introducing the Sun StorEdge Availability Suite 3.1 Software

• Describe the purpose of the Sun StorEdge family of software
• State the purpose and functions of the Availability Suite 3.1 software
• Describe the licensing of the Availability Suite software

Module 2 - Describing the Point-In-Time Copy Software

• Identify the Point-In-Time Copy (formerly Instant Image) software features and functions
• Describe volume and volume set concepts
• Identify the types of volume set operations

Module 3 - Describing the Remote Mirror Software

• Describe the Remote Mirror (formerly Sun StorEdge Network Data Replicator, or SNDR) software features and functions
• Define the basic capabilities of the software
• Identify the types of volume set operations possible
• State the software's data replication functions and features
• Identify the types of Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) network adapters supported
• Identify the capabilities of combining the Remote Mirror and Point-In-Time Copy software

Module 4 - Installing and Configuring the Availability Suite Software

• Describe the installation process
• Prepare the noncluster environment for installation
• Install the Availability Suite software in a noncluster environment
• Configure the Point-In-Time Copy software
• Configure the Remote Mirror software

Module 5 - Using the Point-In-Time Copy Software

• Describe the Point-In-Time Copy software command-line interface (CLI)
• Enable and disable volume operations
• Use overflow volumes
• Move volume sets
• Perform and abort update, copy, and wait operations
• List volumes
• Reset volume sets
• Export, import and join volumes
• Display volume status
• Display software information

Module 6 - Using the Remote Mirror Software

• Describe the Remote Mirror software CLI
• Enable and disable volume sets
• Synchronize and update volume sets
• Reconfigure or modify volume sets
• Display volume set information
• Enable or disable autosynchronization
• Set the asynchronous queue
• View statistics

Module 7 - Configuring for Business Continuation

• Describe business continuation concepts
• Combine Point-In-Time Copy and Remote Mirror software functions
• Back up configuration information
• Use the autosynchronization feature
• Set up the initial synchronization
• Perform primary and secondary site replication cycles
• Recover from a general system failure
• Recover from a primary system catastrophic failure

Module 8 - Tuning the Availability Suite Software

• Evaluate general system performance issues
• Optimize Availability Suite software read-only volume performance
• Optimize the storage device block cache (SDBC) configuration
• Optimize Point-In-Time Copy software copy and update operations
• Optimize the Remote Mirror software asynchronous queue configuration
• Adjust the Remote Mirror software remote procedure call (RPC) time-out value

Module 9 - Troubleshooting the Availability Suite Software

• Perform an Availability Suite software health check
• Recover from a private network failure
• Recover from a disk drive failure
• Recover from a configuration loss
• Identify and repair common user-induced problems

Module 10 - Configuring for Sun Cluster Software Compatibility

• Describe the Availability Suite software cluster capabilities
• Verify the system requirements for the Availability Suite software in a Sun Cluster software environment
• Install and configure the Availability Suite software in a Sun Cluster software environment
• Identify the supported configurations for the Availability Suite software in a cluster environment
• Configure the Sun Cluster software for use with the Availability Suite software
• Use the Availability Suite software commands in a Sun Cluster 3.0 software environment
• Operate the Availability Suite software in a cluster environment

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