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VERITAS Volume Manager 4.0 Administration

Objective

 

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

 

 

Content

 

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

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

VERITAS Volume Manager Installatio

  • 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

VERITAS Volume Manager Basic Operation

  • 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

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

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

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

VERITAS Volume Manager Performance Management

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