Veritas Storage Foundation 5.0 Administration

Description:

The Veritas Storage Foundation 5.0 Administration course provides students with the essential information and skills to manage disk storage using Veritas Volume Manager(VxVM) and Veritas File System software. Students practice the administrative tasks to build the skills that transfer to their working environments, including planning, implementation, configuration, and administration. 

Who Can Benefit
Students who can benefit from this course are system administrators or storage administrators responsible for the management of storage resources in Solaris OS environments, using the Veritas storage software products. 
 

Prerequisites
To succeed fully in this course, students should be able to:
Configure the Solaris 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 programmable read-only memory (PROM) commands
Cable Sun systems and peripherals

Skills Gained
Upon completion of this course, students should be able to:
Investigate Sun storage concepts and examine hardware configurations
Explore data management concepts
Install and initialize the Storage Foundation software
Perform 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
Examine the association of volumes objects and create volumes and file systems
Use the Veritas Enterprise Administrator (VEA) to perform disk group, volume, and file system operations
Perform advanced operations
Perform advanced VxFS operations
Analyze basic volume performance

Topics
Before:
SA-202-S10: Intermediate System Administration for the Solaris 10 Operating System, or
SA-255: Solaris 10 New Features for Experienced Solaris System Administrators
ES-215: Disk Subsystem Fundamentals
After:
ES-338: Sun Cluster 3.1 Administration 
 

Course Content
Module 1 - Sun Storage Concepts

Define disk storage management
Identify storage configurations
Examine hardware interfaces
Describe disk storage concepts

Module 2 - Managing Data

Describe the concepts and advantages of virtual storage management
Describe standard RAID terminology
List the common features of each supported RAID levels

Module 3 - Veritas Storage Foundation Installation

List the key elements of pre-installation planning
Install the Veritas Storage Foundation 5.0 software
Verify the post-installation environment
Explore the Veritas Enterprise Administrator (VEA) console features
Describe the VxVM error numbering system

Module 4 - Veritas Volume Manager Basic Operations

Control disk storage resources
Describe the function of VxVM disk groups
Administer disk groups using command-line programs
Administer disk groups Using the vxdiskadm utility
Protect storage devices from usage

Module 5 - Veritas Volume Manager Volume Operations

Examine volume components and structures
Create volumes using the vxassist command
Add file systems to existing volumes
Resize volumes and file systems
Modify volume access attributes
Administer volume logs
Removing a volume

Module 6 - Disk Management Using the VEA GUI

Creating disk groups, volumes, and file systems
Administering disks, disk groups, volumes, and file systems

Module 7 - Veritas Volume Manager Advanced Operations

Encapsulate and mirror the system boot disk
Administer hot-relocation
Evacuate all subdisks from a disk drive
Move disk drives without preserving data
Move a populated disk drives to a new disk group
Back up and restore a disk group configurations
Describe how to import a disk group after a system crash
Perform a volume snapshot backups
Create VxVM layered volumes
Perform an online volume relayout
Replace a failed disk drive

Module 8 - Veritas File System Basic Operations

Use extended VxFS mount options
Perform online VxFS administration tasks
Convert a UFS file system to a VxFS file system
Add a VxFS file system to a non-global zone

Module 9 - Veritas Volume Manager Performance Management

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