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In this training bundle, you will 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 will learn to install and configure Veritas Storage Foundation and to manage disks, disk groups, and volumes using the graphical user interface and from the command line. You also will 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.

This course includes practical exercises that enable you to test your new skills and begin to transfer them into your working environment.

The training bundle includes:

• Instructor-led training
• On-demand instructor-led training (video)
• Symantec eLibrary subscription
• Symantec certification exam voucher

What You'll Learn

• Install and configure Veritas Storage Foundation
• Configure and manage disks, disk groups, and volumes
• Administer file systems
• Identify types of disk failure and resolve disk failures
• Install Storage Foundation Manager and manage multiple Storage Foundation servers
• Monitor VxVM and change volume layouts to improve performance
• Manage the dynamic multipathing feature
• Create and manage point-in-time copies for off-host and on-host processing
• Manage LUN snapshots
• Remotely mirror your data across different sites
• Use dynamic storage tiering for optimal storage allocation
• Place the boot disk under VxVM control

Who Needs to Attend

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

Prerequisites

Knowledge of UNIX system administration

Follow-On Courses

There are no follow-ons for this course.

Course Outline

1. Virtual Objects

• Physical data storage
• Virtual data storage
• Volume Manager storage objects
• Volume Manager RAID levels
• VCS Building Blocks

2. 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

3. 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

4. Working with Volumes with Different Layouts

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

5. 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

6. 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

7. Resolving Hardware Problems

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

8. 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

9. Administering Volume Manager

• Introduction to performance monitoring with Storage Foundation
• Changing volume layouts
• Managing volume tasks

10. Managing Devices Within the VxVM Architecture

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

11. Using Full-Copy Volume Snapshots

• Understanding and selecting snapshot technologies
• Creating and managing full-copy volume snapshots
• Using volume snapshots for off-host processing

12. 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

13. Importing LUN Snapshots

• How Volume Manager detects hardware snapshots
• Managing clone disks
• Using disk tags

14. 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

15. 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

16. 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