This course is designed for users who operate or administer the Sun StorageTek Automated Cartridge System Library Software (ACSLS) in a High Availability (HA) 8.0 environment. It introduces cluster concepts, explains the usage of the various network interfaces, describes the mirroring of the root disk and external storage, identifies the ACSLS customized cluster data services, and demonstrates the commands to operate and troubleshoot the HA component of ACSLS.

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This course is for Systems Administrators, Operators, and Data Center Managers.

Working knowledge of UNIX

• Working knowledge of ACSLS
• Working knowledge of the Sun Cluster Server and Sun Volume Manager

Define the ACSLS HA environment

• Identify the components of the solution
• List the benefits of the solution
• Explain the role of Sun Cluster in ACSLS HA
• Describe the elements of an active-passive configuration
• Understand the concept of floating IP address
• Explain the purpose for cluster private communications
• Discuss Sun Cluster resources in the solution
• Discuss the role of IPMP in ACSLS HA
• Explain the configuration process in Sun Cluster
• Describe the role of ACSLS HA Data Services
• Explain how tape libraries are monitored in the HA environment
• Explain the maintenance philosophy in the HA environment
• Recognize the impact of failover in ACSLS clients

Module 1 - ACSLS HA Overview

• Identify what is highly available
• Describe the ACSLS HA environment
• Identify the components of the ACSLS HA solution
• List the advantages of the ACSLS HA solution

• Explain the role of Sun Cluster in ACSLS HA
• Define the concepts of clustering
• Describe the elements of an active/passive configuration
• Understand the concept of application IP address (Virtual IP address)
• Discuss the Sun Cluster Software HA Framework
• Describe quorum votes and quorum devices
• Describe Sun Cluster Data Services
• Discuss Sun Cluster resources and resource groups

• Define the concepts of IPMP and IPMP group
• List the new options to ifconfig command for IPMP
• Describe the integration of IPMP into Sun Cluster and ACSLS HA environment

• Discuss the building blocks of the ACSLS HA solution
• Visualize the relationship between the solutions components

• Introduce Solaris Volume Manager concepts
• Describe how the boot disk is mirrored
• Describe how the external storage is mirrored

• Describe the role of Sun Cluster Data Services for ACSLS
• Identify the ACSLS HA customized data services
• Explain how tape libraries are monitored in the HA environment

• Describe the management interface to Sun Cluster
• Introduce selected commands to evaluate the current status of ACSLS HA
• Describe the ways to start and stop ACSLS within the HA environment
• Identify the active node in the cluster

• Explain the maintenance philosophy for the OS and ACSLS in the HA environment