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ES-310 - VERITAS Volume Manager 4.0 Administration
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| This 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.
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| Who Can Benefit |
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| VxVM system administrators or other technical staff responsible for the management of disks on Sun storage arrays using the VxVM software.
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| Prerequisites |
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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
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| Skills Gained |
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Upon completion of this course, you 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 a Striped-Pro volume with a file system
- Identify performance differences between the three types of redundant array of independent disks (RAID) -5 write operations
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| Related Courses |
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- Before: SA-239: Intermediate System Administration for the Solaris(TM) 9 Operating Environment
- Before: ES-215: Disk Subsystems Fundamentals
- Before: SM-210: Sun Desktop Systems Maintenance
- Before: SM-240: Sun Enterprise Server Maintenance
- After: ES-330: Sun Enterprise Cluster Administration
- After: ES-333: Sun Cluster 3.0 Administration
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| Course Content |
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Module 1 - Introduction to Sun Storage Devices
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- Describe the major disk storage administration tasks
- List the disk storage concepts common to many storage arrays
- List the main features of the Sun Small Computer System Interface (SCSI) interfaces
- List the main features of the Sun fiber-optic interfaces
- List the general features of current Sun disk storage models
- List the main features of a Sun storage area network (SAN)
- Decode logical storage device paths
- Identify storage configurations
- Verify storage array firmware revisions
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Module 2 - Introduction to Managing Data
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- List the primary focus of software RAID management
- List commonly implemented RAID levels
- Identify common RAID terminology
- List the common features of each supported RAID level
- Identify the primary advantage of each supported RAID level
- Identify a primary limitation of each supported RAID level
- Describe the optimum hardware configuration for each supported RAID level
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Module 3 - VERITAS Volume Manager Installation
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- List the key elements of pre-installation planning
- Identify the best policies for a successful patch installation
- List the basic steps of a VxVM installation process
- Describe the purpose of the VxVM private and public regions
- List the features of the two VxVM disk initialization methods
- Describe the different methods of excluding disk drives from VxVM usage
- Describe a preferred configuration for boot disk encapsulation
- List the difference between the vxinstall quick and custom installations
- Describe common post-encapsulation error messages
- List the VxVM changes to the boot environment
- Identify the purpose of the VxVM system processes
- Identify the location of the VxVM software
- Describe the relationship between the vxio driver and the vxconfigd daemon
- Install and initialize the VxVM
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Module 4 - VERITAS Volume Manager Basic Operations
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- Describe the relationship of VxVM objects
- List common VxVM command-line status commands
- Interpret command-line status output
- Describe the Volume Manager Storage Administrator (VMSA) client/server
- Identify the function of major VMSA graphical user interface (GUI) components
- Identify the function of basic command-line programs
- Use both VMSA and command-line programs to perform basic operations
- Initialize a disk drives for VxVM use
- Create and remove disk groups
- Add and remove disks for a disk group
- Rename a VxVM disk drive
- Remove disks from VxVM control
- Display properties of VxVM objects
- Install the VMSA software
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