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• List the goals and challenges addressed in VCS 5.0 MP3
• List the supported software and hardware in VCS 5.0 MP3
• Discuss VCS 5.0 MP3 Unified Messaging changes
• Describe the upgrade paths to VCS 5.0 MP3
• Perform and installation or upgrade using the correct install script
• Perform the steps to isolate installation and upgrade failures in VCS 5.0 MP3
• Describe the Obsolete packages in SF 5.0 MP3
• Describe the new agents added in VCS 5.0 MP3
• Describe the agent changes to enable HA FireDrills (FireDrills covered in alater lesson)
• Perform the steps to configure VCS Agents in new and existing Service Groups
• Describe the bug fix to the DNS agent
• Describe the enhancements to VCS 5.0 MP3 Enterprise Agents
• Describe what an HA FireDrill is used for
• Describe the six different types of HA FireDrills and the agents that are used
• Perform the steps to configure VCS 5.0 MP3 with HA FireDrills
• Describe the Manual Failover process in VCS 5.0 MP3 Campus Clusters
• Perform the steps to manually failover a service group(s) in VCS 5.0 MP3 Campus Clusters
• Perform the steps to configure and test HA FireDrills in a VCS Campus Cluster
• Describe the need to be able to offline an application outside of VCS 5.0 MP3
• Describe the VCS changes that were made to recognize the intentional offlining of an application outside of VCS 5.0 MP3
• Describe the behaviors of Service Groups based on different group dependencies
• Perform the steps to test or troubleshoot an application that is intentionally offlined
• Describe the changes to LLT Communications
• Describe the requirements and components for Host Monitoring
• Configure VCS 5.0 MP3 to monitor hosts
• Describe the PreSwitch Action from an overview perspective
• Configure VCS 5.0 MP3 to use the PreSwitch Action
• Describe the current solution for changing coordinator disks prior to VCS 5.0 MP3
• Describe the new online coordinator disk replacement feature in VCS 5.0 MP3
• Perform the steps to replaced an online coordinator disk
• Describe using iSCSI disks as Coordinator Points in VCS 5.0 MP3
• Describe the known issues for VCS 5.0 MP3
• Perform troubleshooting on VCS 5.0 MP3 failures
• Describe how to interpret VCS logs
• Describe what data to collect when escalating a VCS 5.0 MP3 issue

• VCS 5.0 MP3 Goals and Challenges
• Supported Software and Hardware
• UMI Messaging Changes

• Upgrade Path
• Installation and Upgrade Features and Enhancements

• General Agent Changes
• New Agents
• Agents for Virtual Firedrill support
• Storage Agents
• Agent Bug Fixes
• Enterprise Agent Changes

• HA FireDrill Introduction
• Types of HAFDs
• Configuring and Testing HA FireDrills

• Manual Failover in Campus Clusters
• Configuring and Testing HA FireDrills in a Campus Cluster

• Agent Framework and Agent Level Changes
• Group Dependency Behavior
• Troubleshooting Intentional Offline Issues

• LLT Feature Overview
• Host Monitor Feature
• Preswitch Action

• Online Coordinator Disk Replacement
• iSCSI coordination point support

• VCS 5.0 MP3 Known Issues
• Troubleshooting VCS 5.0 MP3
• Interpreting VCS Logs
• Data Collection for Escalation

Storage Foundation Cluster File System 5.0 MP3 - Differences - UNIX - VT/ILT (TTE)