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VERITAS Storage Foundation 5.x Workshop (Solaris / Linux)

Course:   VERSF
Duration:   5 Days
Level:   II
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Course Summary

VERITAS Volume Manager (VxVM) enables an organization to better manage their disk storage, and increase the size of their file systems from the standard partitioning model. The VERITAS File System (VxFS) integrates with VxVM to provide advanced file system services and facilities. Combined, these two products form the basis of Storage Foundation (SF).

Topics Covered In This Course

VOLUME MANAGER CONCEPTS

  • Storage virtualization
  • VxVM storage objects
  • RAID Levels

INSTALLING STORAGE FOUNDATION AND ACCESSING STORAGE FOUNDATION INTERFACES

  • Installing Storage Foundation
  • Storage Foundation resources
  • Storage Foundation user interfaces
  • Managing the VERITAS Enterprise Administrator Software

CREATING A VOLUME AND FILE SYSTEM

  • Preparing disks and disk groups for volume creation
  • Creating a volume
  • Adding a file system to a volume
  • Displaying disk information
  • Displaying disk group information
  • Displaying volume configuration information
  • Removing volumes, disks, and disk groups

DIFFERENT VOLUME LAYOUTS

  • Volume layouts
  • Creating volumes with various layouts
  • Creating layered volumes
  • Allocating storage for volumes

MAKING CONFIGURATION CHANGES

  • Administering mirrored volumes
  • Resizing volumes and file systems
  • Moving data between systems
  • Renaming disks and disk groups
  • Managing disk group versions

ADMINISTERING FILE SYSTEMS

  • Using VxFS commands
  • Controlling fragmentation

RESOLVING HARDWARE PROBLEMS

  • How VxVM interprets failures in hardware
  • Recovering disabled disk groups
  • Resolving disk failures
  • Managing hot relocation at the host level

MANAGING DEVICES

  • Managing components in the VxVM architecture
  • Discovering disk devices
  • Managing multiple paths to disk devices

ADMINISTERING VOLUME MANAGER

  • Introduction to performance monitoring with SF
  • Changing volume layouts
  • Managing volume tasks

MANAGING THE BOOT DISK

  • Placing the boot disk under VxVM control
  • Creating an alternate boot disk
  • Administering the boot disk
  • Removing the boot disk from VxVM Control

USING STORAGE FOUNDATION SNAPSHOTS

  • How VCS responds to resource faults
  • Snapshot technologies
  • Creating and managing full-copy volume snapshots
  • Creating and managing space-optimized volume snapshots
  • Using storage checkpoints

IMPORTING LUN SNAPSHOTS

  • How VxVM detects hardware snapshots
  • Managing clone disks
  • Using disk tags

STORAGE FOUNDATION MANAGER (SFM)

  • Storage Foundation manager overview
  • Installing a Storage Foundation central management server
  • Changing a Storage Foundation Server to a managed host
  • Administering users in the central management server

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What You Can Expect

At the end of this course, delegates will be able to:

Who Should Take This Course

This workshop is intended for system administrators and technical support staff who will be working with VERITAS Storage Foundation.

Recommended Prerequisites

The workshop requires a prior knowledge of UNIX system administration (specifically Solaris or Linux), including knowledge of basic UNIX file systems, formatting, partitioning and associated tools.

Training Style

This workshop introduces the concepts of VxVM and VxFS on Solaris / Linux. The theory provides the student with the principles of volume and file system management and recovery. The practical aspects of the course instruct the delegate on how to manage various types of volume configuration, use of the appropriate administration tools, as well as performing volume migration, recovery and troubleshooting. This course covers VERITAS Storage Foundation 5.x.

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