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Veritas Flex Appliance 5340: Administration

The Veritas Flex Appliance 5340: Administration course is designed for IT professionals who are responsible for deploying, configuring, operating, managing, and maintaining Veritas Flex appliances....

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$2,700 USD
Duration 3 days
Course Code FLA-5340-ADMIN
Available Formats Classroom

Overview

The Veritas Flex Appliance 5340: Administration course is designed for IT professionals who are responsible for deploying, configuring, operating, managing, and maintaining Veritas Flex appliances. This course covers how to configure Flex appliances using containers. Students will learn how to set up and work with the Flex Appliance. Students will also learn how to modify settings, manage users, monitor, reconfigure the Flex appliance, and how to upgrade and rollback the Flex appliance.

Skills Gained

By the completion of this course, you will be able to:

  • Describe the Veritas Flex appliance and its hardware and software components.
  • Describe the fundamentals of Flex appliance containers, its implementation, and the advantages of running NetBackup in container.
  • Set up the Veritas Flex appliance.
  • Work with the Flex appliance Web console.
  • Modify Flex appliance settings using Flex Shell commands.
  • Manage Flex appliance tenants and users.
  • Create and manage application instances.
  • Monitor Flex appliance.
  • Perform factory reset and storage reset to reconfigure Flex appliance.
  • Upgrade and rollback the Flex appliance.

Who Can Benefit

This course is designed for technical professionals responsible for the design, configuration, operation, monitoring, and management of the Veritas Flex Appliance.

Prerequisites

Students must have working knowledge of Veritas NetBackup and Veritas NetBackup appliances. Knowledge of clustering, storage management, and networking is also required. Students also must have experience in Unix system administration.

Course Details

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 the Veritas Flex Appliance

  • Veritas Flex Appliance: Introduction
  • Flex Appliance 5340 hardware
  • Flex Appliance 5340 software
  • Flex Appliance 5340 Management and Monitoring

Understanding Flex Appliance Containers

  • Container fundamentals
  • Docker Basics
  • Flex Appliance 5340: Container implementation
  • Running NetBackup in a container: Advantages

Setting up and working with the Veritas Flex Appliance

  • Setting up the Veritas Flex Appliance
  • Accessing and using the Flex Appliance Shell
  • Accessing and using the Flex Appliance Console
  • Troubleshooting Flex Appliance Web Console errors

Labs:

  • Exercise A: Performing an initial configuration of Flex Appliance node1
  • Exercise B: Performing an initial configuration of Flex Appliance node2
  • Exercise C: Adding Flex Appliance node2 as an additional node to Flex Appliance node1
  • Exercise D: Accessing and navigating the Flex Appliance Shell
  • Exercise E: Accessing and navigating the Flex Appliance Console

Modifying Veritas Flex Appliance settings

  • Configuring the network

Labs:

  • Exercise A: Creating a network bond – bond0.
  • Exercise B: Creating a network bond – bond1.
  • Exercise C: Configuring a network interface: bond0.
  • Exercise D: Configuring a network interface with VLAN tagging: bond1.
  • Exercise E: Configuring NTP server on Flex Appliance nodes.
  • Exercise F: Configuring DNS Settings.
  • Exercise G: Adding and removing a node from the Hosts file.
  • Exercise H: Deleting a network bond – bond1

Managing Flex Appliance Users

  • Working with Tenants
  • Managing Users
  • Using Active Directory user credentials with the Flex Appliance

Labs:

  • Exercise A: Adding tenants, editing them and removing them
  • Exercise B: Adding a local user
  • Exercise C: Importing an Active Directory user
  • Exercise D: Authenticating with an Active Directory group

Working with the Flex Appliance

  • Managing applications and upgrade packages in the repository
  • Creating application instances
  • Managing application instances
  • Veritas Flex Appliance: Multiple network support
  • Instance upgrade

Labs:

  • Exercise A: Creating application instances
  • Exercise B: Managing application instances

Monitoring the Flex Appliance

  • AutoSupport and Call Home
  • Monitoring the hardware from the Flex Appliance Shell
  • Scanning and adding storage
  • Troubleshooting

Labs:

  • Exercise A: View node information
  • Exercise B: View Primary and Expansion Storage shelf information
  • Exercise C: View system data

Reconfiguring the Flex Appliance

  • Performing a factory reset

Labs:

  • Exercise A: Performing a Factory reset
  • Exercise B: Recovering storage data after a factory reset
  • Exercise C: Performing a Storage reset
  • Exercise D: Deleting a node from a multi-node appliance deployment

Flex Appliance: Upgrades and rollbacks

  • Flex Appliance: Upgrades
  • Flex Appliance: Rollbacks
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Upcoming Course Dates

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FAQ

Does the course schedule include a Lunchbreak?

Classes typically include a 1-hour lunch break around midday. However, the exact break times and duration can vary depending on the specific class. Your instructor will provide detailed information at the start of the course.

What languages are used to deliver training?

Most courses are conducted in English, unless otherwise specified. Some courses will have the word "FRENCH" marked in red beside the scheduled date(s) indicating the language of instruction.

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Does Ascendient Learning deliver group training?

Yes, we provide training for groups, individuals and private on sites. View our group training page for more information.

What does vendor-authorized training mean?

As a vendor-authorized training partner, we offer a curriculum that our partners have vetted. We use the same course materials and facilitate the same labs as our vendor-delivered training. These courses are considered the gold standard and, as such, are priced accordingly.

Is the training too basic, or will you go deep into technology?

It depends on your requirements, your role in your company, and your depth of knowledge. The good news about many of our learning paths, you can start from the fundamentals to highly specialized training.

How up-to-date are your courses and support materials?

We continuously work with our vendors to evaluate and refresh course material to reflect the latest training courses and best practices.

Are your instructors seasoned trainers who have deep knowledge of the training topic?

Ascendient Learning instructors have an average of 27 years of practical IT experience and have also served as consultants for an average of 15 years. To stay current, instructors spend at least 25 percent of their time learning new, emerging technologies and courses.

Do you provide hands-on training and exercises in an actual lab environment?

Lab access is dependent on the vendor and the type of training you sign up for. However, many of our top vendors will provide lab access to students to test and practice. The course description will specify lab access.

Will you customize the training for our company’s specific needs and goals?

We will work with you to identify training needs and areas of growth.  We offer a variety of training methods, such as private group training, on-site of your choice, and virtually. We provide courses and certifications that are aligned with your business goals.

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