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SF-UNIX-ADV --- VERITAS Advanced Storage Foundation 5.0 for Unix

Overview

The VERITAS Storage Foundation 5.0 for UNIX course is designed to bring an engineer that is proficient with fundamental issues of VERITAS Storage Foundation up to speed quickly on the advanced concepts and failure scenario recovery.

Objectives

The VERITAS Storage Foundation 5.0 for UNIX course is designed to bring an engineer that is proficient with fundamental issues of VERITAS Storage Foundation up to speed quickly on the advanced concepts and failure scenario recovery. The course will cover the descriptions, procedures, and possible troubleshooting techniques that can be used when working with VERITAS Storage Foundation 5.0 for UNIX. This will include upgrade, VxVM disks, VxVM objects, CDS environments, VxVM features, debugging file systems, snapshots and checkpoints, Dynamic Multipathing, benchmarking, and performance issues.

PreRequisites

Knowledge of UNIX system administration VERITAS Storage Foundation 5.0 MP3 for Solaris course

Who Can Benefit

This course is for UNIX system or network administrators, system engineers, technical support personnel, and system integration/development staff who will be installing, operating, or integrating VERITAS Storage Foundation.

Duration

5 Days

Course Content

VERITAS Advanced Storage Foundation 5.0 for Unix Content Details

 
 
Upgrading Storage Foundation to 5.0 MP3
  • Upgrade Overview
  • Potential Upgrade Issues
  • Using CPI Logs to Isolate Upgrade Failures
Volume Manager Disks – Advanced Concepts
  • Volume Manager Disk Type Structural Layouts
  • CDS Disks
  • Volume Manager Disk Header
  • Volume Manager Disk Configuration Database
  • Viewing the Configuration Database in Kernel Memory
  • Dynamic LUN Expansion
Volume Manager Disks – Recovery Concepts
  • Volume Manager disk Recovery – Manual Process
  • Disk Failures and Issues
  • Boot Disk and Issues
Volume Manager Objects – Advanced Concepts
  • Volume Manager Object Hierarchy Overview
  • Saving Disk Group Information
  • Determining When a Disk Group Was Created
  • Using vxmake to Create Volume Manager Objects
  • Viewing Object Attributes
  • Special Subdisks
  • Volume Manager Configuration Daemon Overview
Volume Manager Objects – Recovery Concepts
  • Volume Manager Object Recovery Overview
  • Recovering VM Objects Using vxprint Outputs
  • Recovering VM Objects Using vxprivutil Outputs
  • Recovering VM Objects using CBR
  • Removing Disks That Have Been Initialized by Another system from the Current Disk Group
Isolating Failures with Volume Manager Specific Features
  • Disk Group Split/Join/Move Issues
  • Online Relayout Issues
  • Isolating Volume Set Failures
Debugging File System Layouts
  • File System Disk Layouts
  • Metasave Utility
  • Debugging using ncheck_vxfs
  • Debugging Using fsdb_vxfs
  • Recovering Disabled file Systems
  • Isolating MVS Issues
  • Using File Change Log and History Log to Isolate Root Cause
 
Isolating Failures with File System Specific Features
  • Disk Group Split/Join/Move Issues
  • Online Relayout Issues
  • Isolating Volume Set Failures
Isolating Failures in a CDS Environment
  • CDS Overview
  • Volume Manager Specific Issues
  • File System Specific Issues
  • Data Unusable on Other Operating Systems
Volume Manager Snapshots – Recovery Concepts
  • rview of Snapshot Technology
  • Volume Manager Snapshot Failures
  • Volume Manager FastResync Overview
  • Volume Manager FastResync Failures
  • Volumes Cannot Be Started
File System Checkpoints – Advanced Concepts
  • Checkpoint Overview
  • Checkpoint Issues
Dynamic Multipathing – Advanced Concepts
  • DMP Overview
  • Functionality
  • Policies
  • DMP Startup Procedure
  • Device Discovery Layer Overview
  • Array support Libraries
Dynamic Multipathing – Recovery concepts
  • Vxdmpdebug Utility
Storage Foundation Benchmarking
  • Storage Foundation Performance Overview
  • Analyze Performance Using VxVM Tools
Isolating Performance Issues in Storage Foundation
  • Isolating Volume Manager Performance Issues
  • Isolating File System Performance Issues



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