Veritas Access 7.3: Administration

Hands-On

This course includes practical hands-on exercises that enable you to test your new skills and begin to transfer them into your working environment.

Course Outline

Introducing Veritas Access

• Need for Veritas Access
• Business Benefits and use cases
• Technical benefits

Labs:

• Exercise A: Viewing the virtual machine configuration
• Exercise B: Verifying network connectivity

Installing Veritas Access

• Installation requirements
• Licensing in Veritas Access
• Installing Veritas Access
• Using response files
• Locating installation log files

Labs:

• Exercise A: Installing Veritas Access locally
• Exercise B: Installing Veritas Access using a driver node
• Exercise C: Verifying the installations in the lab environment

Exploring Veritas Access User Interfaces

• Veritas Access users and user interfaces
• Navigating the CLISH interface
• Using the GUI to administer Veritas Access
• Managing licenses
• Configuring networking

Labs:

• Exercise A: Verifying the support user
• Exercise B: Working with built-in accounts
• Exercise C: Verifying the Veritas Access cluster installations
• Exercise D: Navigating the Command Line Shell (CLISH)
• Exercise E: Configuring the firewall
• Exercise F: Connecting to the Veritas Access GUI
• Exercise G: Exploring the Veritas Access GUI dashboard
• Exercise H: Creating a user in Veritas Access
• Exercise I: Configuring the Veritas Access IP load balancer

Configuring Authentication Services

• Introducing authentication services
• Configuring LDAP server settings
• Configuring the NIS-related settings
• Configuring NSS lookup order
• Configuring authentication for NFS shares
• Configuring authentication for CIFS shares
• Locating authentication-related log files

Labs:

• Exercise A: Enabling Active Directory authentication in the vaa cluster
• Exercise B: (Optional) Showing the CIFS components
• Exercise C: Enabling Active Directory authentication in the vab cluster

Provisioning Storage

• Overview of storage provisioning in Veritas Access
• Performing storage discovery
• Administering storage pools
• Using Flexible Storage Sharing
• Using iSCSI disks
• Performing disk management operations
• Locating log files

Labs:

• Exercise A: Adding iSCSI storage to the vaa cluster
• Exercise B: Adding iSCSI storage to the vab cluster
• Exercise C: Creating a storage pool in the vaa cluster using the GUI
• Exercise D: Creating an FSS storage pool in the vaa cluster using CLISH
• Exercise E: (Optional) Viewing storage from the OS command line

Creating File Systems

• Creating, modifying, and deleting a filesystem
• Using storage policies
• Upgrading disk layout versions
• Checking and repairing a file system
• Configuring SmartIO
• Locating log files

Labs:

• Exercise A: Creating a simple file system using the GUI
• Exercise B: (Optional) Viewing the InfoScale objects created
• Exercise C: Creating file systems using CLISH
• Exercise D: Using SmartIO in Veritas Access

Configuring Veritas Access Shares

• Introducing file sharing protocols
• Using Veritas Access as a NFS server
• Using Veritas Access as a CIFS server
• Using Veritas Access as a S3 server
• Providing FTP services using Veritas Access
• Using Veritas Access as an iSCSI target
• Locating log files

Labs:

• Exercise A: Creating an NFS share using the GUI
• Exercise B: Starting the NFS server
• Exercise C: Creating a CIFS share using the GUI
• Exercise D: Accessing the CIFS share from the client
• Exercise E: Creating an S3 share in the vab cluster
• Exercise F: Creating an S3 user in Active Directory and generating S3 keys
• Exercise G: Creating S3 Objects
• Exercise H: Using Veritas Access as an FTP server
• Exercise I: Configuring multi-protocol access for S3 and NFS
• Exercise J: (Optional) Test the s3user login

Administering File Systems

• Deduplicating data
• Compressing files
• Encrypting Volumes
• Configuring Quality of Service – Max IOPS
• Configuring file retention
• Configuring erasure coding
• Locating log files

Labs:

• Exercise A: Setting up a file system for deduplication
• Exercise B: Deduplicating a Veritas Access file system
• Exercise C: Setting up MAXIOPS
• Exercise D: Configuring file retention

Replicating Data

• Replication concepts
• Episodic replication
• Configuring episodic replication
• Configuring continuous replication
• Locating log files

Labs:

• Exercise A: Creating replication storage and network resources in the source (vaa) cluster
• Exercise B: Creating replication storage and network resources in the target (vab) cluster
• Exercise C: Creating the VFR link
• Exercise D: Adding replication to the file system
• Exercise E: Populating the replicated file system from an NFS client and verifying replication
• Exercise F: Reversing episodic replication
• Exercise G: Creating continuous replication network resources in the source (vaa) cluster
• Exercise H: Creating continuous replication network resources in the target (vab) cluster
• Exercise I: Creating the continuous replication link
• Exercise J: Creating a continuously replicated file system
• Exercise K: (Optional) Examining the objects created
• Exercise L: Populating the replicated file system from an NFS client and pausing replication
• Exercise M: Reversing continuous replication
• Exercise N: (Optional) Exploring continuous replication

Using Point-In-Time Copies

• File system snapshots
• Creating snapshots
• Instant rollbacks
• Creating instant rollbacks
• Locating PITC log files

Labs:

• Exercise A: Creating a file system snapshot
• Exercise B: Using the snapshot on an NFS client
• Exercise C: Restoring the file system from its snapshot
• Exercise D: Using rollbacks

Configuring On-premise Storage Tiering

• Overview of the SmartTier solution
• Adding tiers to a file system
• Administering storage tiers using SmartTier
• Configuring policies for a tiered file system
• Configuring schedules for a tiered file system
• Locating SmartTier log files

Labs:

• Exercise A: Creating a storage pool and file system for on-premises storage tiering
• Exercise B: Adding a second on-premises storage tier to an existing file system
• Exercise C: Populating the file system and observing the impact of the storage tiering policy
• Exercise D: (Optional) Investigating the underlying InfoScale Storage configuration

Creating a Scale-Out File System

• Overview of the scale-out file system
• Specifications of a scale-out file system
• Scale-out file system architecture
• Creating and using a scale-out file system
• Troubleshooting scale-out file system issues

Labs:

• Exercise A: Creating the scale-out file system
• Exercise B: Mounting the NFS share on a client
• Exercise C: Growing a scale-out file system
• Exercise D: (Optional) Observing the InfoScale Storage objects supporting the scale-out file system

Using Cloud as a Tier for Scale-Out File System

• Cloud Tiering overview
• Architecture
• Using cloud as a tier in AWS
• Moving files between tiers
• Using data movement policies
• Monitoring data usage in the cloud tier
• Locating log files

Labs:

• Exercise A: Adding a cloud tier to the scale-out filesystem
• Exercise B: Migrating files to the cloud
• Exercise C: Creating a data movement policy
• Exercise D: Scheduling data movement policies
• Exercise E: Removing the cloud tier from a scale-out file system
• Exercise F: Using multi-cloud tiering

Using NetBackup with Veritas Access

• NetBackup and Veritas Access integration overview
• NetBackup workflow
• SAN-based backup
• Configuring Veritas Access for NetBackup
• Monitoring and managing NetBackup Client
• Backing up and restoring over NetBackup SAN client
• Uninstalling and installing NetBackup Client
• Troubleshooting

Labs:

• Exercise A: Configuring the NBU client in the cluster GUI
• Exercise B: Verifying the backup configuration from CLISH
• Exercise C: Backing up the Veritas Access file systems
• Exercise D: Restoring files on Veritas Access cluster

Using Veritas Access for LTR in NetBackup

• Overview of the LTR solution
• High-level architecture
• Installing and configuring LTR components
• Locating log files

Labs:

• Exercise A: Configuring Veritas Access for LTR to cloud
• Exercise B: Configuring Veritas Access storage as OpenDedup volumes on nbumaster
• Exercise C: Configuring NetBackup for LTR to cloud
• Exercise D: Running an LTR backup job
• Exercise E: Verifying the LTR backup images
• Exercise F: Removing the cloud tier from the scale-out file system used for LTR

Troubleshooting Veritas Access

• Using Log files
• Debugging, monitoring, and reporting
• Recovering from failures
• Troubleshooting network connectivity
• Troubleshooting cloud tiering
• Troubleshooting installation

Labs:

• Exercise A: Gathering Support information
• Exercise B: Investigating Veritas Access logging
• Exercise C: Identifying logs related to a CLISH command
• Exercise D: (Optional) Observing the underlying InfoScale configuration
• Exercise E: Deleting and re-adding a node to a Veritas Access cluster
• Exercise F: (Optional) Understanding Veritas Access internals