Veritas Volume Manager 4.0 Administration

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code.

ES-310

length.

4 days

type.

Instructor-Led

partner.

Sun Microsystems

price.

$2,800 :: $2,380 GSA GOV.

The VERITAS Volume Manager 4.0 Administration course provides students with the essential information and skills to manage Sun disk storage arrays using VERITAS Volume Manager (VxVM) software. Students are introduced to the installation, initialization, and configuration of VxVM and to general performance issues. Basic VERITAS File System (VxFS) installation and configuration is also presented.

There are currently no scheduled dates for this course. If you are interested in this course, request a course date with the links below.

who can benefit

Students who can benefit from this course are VxVM system administrators or other technical staff responsible for the management of disks on Sun storage arrays using the VxVM software.

prerequisites

To succeed fully in this course, students should be able to:

	Configure the Solaris (TM) Operating System (Solaris OS)
	Control Solaris OS run levels
	Understand the Solaris OS file system structure
	Perform basic file ownership and protection using the chgrp, chmod, and chown commands
	Perform common file system administration using the format, mkdir, newfs, and mount commands
	Administer Solaris OS packages using the pkgadd, pkgrm, and patchadd commands
	Use basic OpenBoot(TM) programmable read-only memory (PROM) commands
	Cable Sun systems and peripherals

skills gained

Upon completion of this course, students should be able to:

	Analyze and document storage configurations
	Optimize the system and volume configurations for availability and performance
	Install and initialize the VxVM software
	Perform VxVM disk drive operations, such as creating a new disk group, adding and removing a disk from a disk group, and displaying properties of VxVM objects
	Create volumes and file systems
	Perform advanced operations, such as performing an online volume relayout, moving a populated disk to a new disk group, and creating layered volumes with a file system
	Analyze basic volume performance
	Perform basic VxFS administration

related courses, exams and materials

	before related training and products

SA-239 Intermediate System Administration for the Solaris 9 OS

	after related training and products

	ES-333 Sun Cluster 3.0 Administration
	ES-338 Sun Cluster 3.1 Administration

course content details

	Module 1 - Sun Storage Concepts

	Describe the major disk storage administration tasks
	Describe Sun storage interface types
	Describe available RAID technologies including:
	Host-based RAID technology
	Controller-based RAID technology
	Describe disk storage concepts that are common to many storage installations including:
	Hot swapping
	Storage area networking
	Multihost access
	Multipath access
	Identify storage configurations including:
	Conducting physical inventory
	Displaying storage configurations
	Identifying controller addresses
	Decoding logical device paths
	Verify storage array firmware revisions

	Module 2 - Managing Data

	List the advantages of using virtual disk management
	Describe standard RAID terminology
	List the common features of each supported RAID level including:
	Concatenation - RAID 0
	Striping - RAID 0
	Mirroring - RAID 1
	Mirrored Stripe - RAID 0+1
	Mirrored Concatenation - RAID 0+1
	Striped Mirror - RAID 1+0
	Concatenated Mirror - RAID 1+0
	Striping with distributed parity - RAID 5
	Describe the optimum hardware configuration for each supported RAID level

	Module 3: VERITAS Volume Manager Installation

	List the key elements of pre-installation planning
	Research VxVM software patch requirements
	Install the VxVM software
	Initialize the VxVM software
	Verify the post-installation environment
	Prepare for virtual disk drive management
	Install the VEA client software
	Use the basic VEA features
	Use the VxVM error numbering system

	Module 4: VERITAS Volume Manager Basic Operations

	Describe the function of VxVM disk groups
	List disk group administrative operations including:
	Initialize disk drives for VxVM use
	Create disk groups
	Add and remove disk drives for a disk group
	Import and deport disk groups
	Destroy a disk group
	Rename VxVM disk drives
	Administer disk groups using the vxdiskadm utility
	Administer disk groups using command-line programs
	Administer disk groups using the VEA GUI

	Module 5: VERITAS Volume Manager Volume Operations

	Interpret volume structure listings
	Describe volume planning activities
	Create volumes using the VEA GUI
	Create volumes using the vxassist command
	Modify volume access attributes
	Add file systems to existing volumes
	Add and remove volume logs
	Use the VEA GUI to analyze volume structures

	Module 6 - VERITAS Volume Manager Advanced Operations

	Encapsulate and mirror the system boot disk
	Configure a best practice boot disk
	Administer hot spares and hot relocation
	Evacuate all subdisks from a disk drive
	Move a disk drive without preserving data
	Move a populated disk drive to a new disk group
	Backup and restore a disk group configuration
	Describe how to import a disk group after a system crash
	Perform a volume snapshot backup
	Perform an online volume relayout
	Create VxVM layered volumes
	Perform basic Intelligent Storage Provisioning administration
	Replace a failed disk drive

	Module 7 - VERITAS File System Basic Operations

	Describe basic VxFS features
	Install the VxFS software
	Create VxFS file systems
	Use extended VxFS mount options
	Perform online VxFS administration tasks

	Module 8 - VERITAS Volume Manager Performance Management

	Describe performance improvement techniques
	Use the vxstat and vxtrace performance analysis tools
	Describe RAID-5 write performance characteristics