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SF-5UNIX-PREM --- Veritas Storage Foundation 5.1 for Solaris - Premium Bundle

Overview

In this Veritas Storage Foundation 5.1 for Solaris Premium Training Bundle you learn to integrate, operate, and make the most of Veritas Storage Foundation, including Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) and Veritas File System (VxFS), in a UNIX environment.

Objectives

Components of the Training Bundle

  • Instructor-led Training
  • On-Demand Instructor-Led Training (video)
  • Symantec eLibrary subscription

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In this Veritas Storage Foundation 5.1 for Solaris Premium Training Bundle you learn to integrate, operate, and make the most of Veritas Storage Foundation, including Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) and Veritas File System (VxFS), in a UNIX environment. You learn to install and configure Veritas Storage Foundation and to manage disks, disk groups, and volumes by using the graphical user interface and from the command line. You also learn about recovery from disk failures, online file system administration, remote mirroring across sites, offline and off-host processing using volume snapshots and storage checkpoints, and dynamic storage tiering.

PreRequisites

Knowledge of UNIX system administration

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 Storage Foundation 5.1 for Solaris - Premium Bundle Content Details

 
 
PART 1: Veritas Storage Foundation 5.1: Install and
Virtual Objects
  • Physical data storage
  • Virtual data storage
  • Volume Manager storage objects
  • Volume Manager RAID levels
Installing Storage Foundation and Accessing SF Interfaces
  • Preparing to install Storage Foundation
  • Installing Storage Foundation
  • Storage Foundation resources
  • Storage Foundation user interfaces
  • Managing the VEA 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 and disk group information
  • Displaying volume configuration information
  • Removing volumes, disks, and disk groups
Working with Volumes with Different Layouts
  • Volume layouts
  • Creating volumes with various layouts
  • Creating a layered volume
  • Allocating storage for volumes
Making Configuration Changes
  • Administering mirrored volumes
  • Resizing a volume and a file system
  • Moving data between systems
  • Renaming disks and disk groups
  • Managing disk group versions and formats
Administering File Systems
  • Benefits of using Veritas File System
  • Using Veritas File System commands
  • Logging in VxFS
  • Controlling file system fragmentation
  • Using thin provisioning disk arrays
Resolving Hardware Problems
  • How does VxVM interpret failures in hardware?
  • Recovering disabled disk groups
  • Resolving disk failures
  • Managing hot relocation at the host level
PART 2: Veritas Storage Foundation 5.1: Manage and Administer
Getting Started with Storage Foundation Manager (SFM)
  • Storage Foundation Manager overview
  • Installing the Storage Foundation Manager Central Management Server
  • Changing an SF server to a managed host
  • Administering users in the Central Management Server
 
Administering Volume Manager
  • Introduction to performance monitoring with Storage Foundation
  • Changing volume layouts
  • Managing volume tasks
Managing Devices Within the VxVM Architecture
  • Managing components in the VxVM architecture
  • Discovering disk devices
  • Managing multiple paths to disk devices
Using Full-Copy Volume Snapshots
  • Understanding and selecting snapshot technologies
  • Creating and managing full-copy volume snapshots
  • Using volume snapshots for off-host processing
Using Copy-on-Write SF Snapshots
  • Creating and managing space-optimized volume snapshots
  • Creating and managing storage checkpoints
  • Examples of using SF snapshot technologies for different application needs
Importing LUN Snapshots
  • How Volume Manager detects hardware snapshots
  • Managing clone disks
  • Using disk tags
Using Site Awareness with Mirroring
  • What are remote mirroring and site awareness?
  • Configuring site awareness
  • Recovering from failures with remote mirrors
  • Verifying a site-aware environment
Implementing Dynamic Storage Tiering (DST)
  • What is dynamic storage tiering?
  • Dynamic storage tiering concepts
  • Creating and managing volume sets
  • Creating and managing multi-volume file systems
  • Creating storage tiers
  • Implementing file placement policies
Managing the Boot Disk with Storage Foundation
  • Placing the boot disk under VxVM control
  • Creating an alternate boot disk
  • Administering the boot disk
  • Removing the boot disk from VxVM control



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