Veritas Storage Foundation 5.x for Windows (VT-1536)

Objective

By the end of this course, you should be able to:

• Create and manage virtual volumes and volume snapshots
• Perform disk group move, split, and join operations
• Implement off-host processing techniques
• Resize volumes, change volume layouts, and manage volume tasks
• Perform basic recovery operations

Overview

The Veritas Storage Foundation 5.x for Windows course is designed for the Windows professional tasked with managing storage. This class covers fundamental operational management procedures for VERITAS Storage Foundation for Windows. This training shows you how to install and configure Storage Foundation and how to manage disks, disk groups, and volumes. This course also covers off-line and off-host processing and introduces basic troubleshooting, performance tuning, and recovery techniques.

Who can benefit

This course is for Windows system administrators, system engineers, network administrators, system integration or development staff, and technical support personnel who will be working with VERITAS Storage Foundation.

Prerequisites

You should have experience as a system and network administrator working in a Windows environment.

Content

Virtual Objects

• Physical Data Storage
• Virtual Data Storage
• SFW Storage Objects
• SFW RAID Levels

Installation and Interfaces

• Adding License Keys
• SFW Software Packages
• Installing SFW
• SFW User Interfaces

Creating a Volume

• Preparing Disks and Disk Groups for Volume Creation
• Creating a Volume
• Adding a File System to a Volume
• Displaying Volume Configuration Information
• Displaying Disk and Disk Group Information
• Removing Volumes, Disks, and Disk Groups

Selecting Volume Layouts

• Comparing Volume Layouts
• Creating Volumes with Various Layouts
• Creating a Partition and Logical Drive

Making Basic Configuration Changes

• Administering Mirrored Volumes
• Resizing a Volume
• Moving Data Between Systems
• Managing Volume Tasks

Offline and Off-Host Processing

• Offline and Off-Host Processing Tasks
• Creating a Volume Snapshot
• Performing Dynamic Disk Group Split and Join
• Enabling FastResync
• Resynchronizing Files Using Fast File Resync
• Implementing Off-Host Processing

Recovery Essentials

• Monitoring Objects and Events
• Maintaining Data Consistency
• Hot Relocation
• Managing Spare Disks
• Replacing a Disk
• Unrelocating a Disk
• Troubleshooting Disk Replacement and Recovered Volumes
• Accessing the Technical Support Web Site

Physical Data Storage

• Analyzing the Hardware
• Monitoring I/O
• Hot Spots and Physical Disks
• Splitting, Moving, and Joining Subdisks
• Setting Capacity Monitoring Parameters
• Setting Caching for Volumes

Administering DMP

• Overview of Dynamic Multipathing
• Managing Arrays
• Managing Individual Disks
• Managing Paths
• Specifying Load Balancing and Preferred Path Settings
• Setting the Monitor Interval Option
• Using the Purge Disks Command