COURSE DESCRIPTION
In the Storage Foundation 6.x for UNIX: Advanced
Administration course, you learn to integrate, operate, and make the most of Veritas Storage Foundations advanced features, including Dynamic Multi-Pathing, File
Replication, Smart Tiering, Performance Tuning and
Snapshots, in a UNIX environment.
You learn how to manage the VxVM Private Region and understand different disk layouts, disk group management, and how to build volumes from scratch.
You also learn about disk group split, moves and joins, volume relayout, volume sets, multivolume file systems, online file system administration, remote mirroring across sites, offline and off-host processing using volume snapshots and storage checkpoints, and dynamic storage tiering.
Delivery Method
Instructor-led training (ILT)
Duration
Five days
Course Objectives
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
Manage the advanced features of Veritas Storage
Foundation.
Configure and manage disks, disk groups, and volumes.
Administer file systems advanced features..
Apply Performance Tuning principles to Veritas
Volume Manager, Veritas File System and Dynamic
Multi-Pathing.
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 Should Attend
This course is for UNIX system or network administrators, system engineers, technical support personnel, and system integration/development staff who will be administering Veritas Storage Foundation advanced features.
Prerequisites
Symantec Storage Foundation 6.x for UNIX
Knowledge of UNIX system administration
Hands-On
This course includes practical exercises that enable you to test your new skills and begin to transfer them into your working environment.
COURSE OUTLINE
Storage Foundation 6.x for UNIX: Advanced Administration
Volume Manager Overview
Supported upgrade paths
Upgrade considerations
Operating system storage devices and virtual data storage
Volume Manager storage objects
Volume layouts
Volume Manager Advanced Features
Managing components in the VxVM architecture
Disk group information
Using vxmake to create Volume Manager objects
Viewing object attributes
Disk group split/move/join
Changing the volume layout
Online relayout process
Managing volume tasks
Using Configuration Backup and Restore
File System Advanced Features
VxFS layout versions
Compressing files and directories with VxFS
Using FileSnap feature
Duplicating VxFS data
Dynamic Multi-Pathing Administration
DMP/DDL overview
Event Source Daemon
ASL/APM Administration
DDL/DMP CLI Administration
DDL/DMP Enhancements
Subpath Failover Group
Array/Enclosure Management
New DMP enhancements
Volume Sets and MVFS Management
Creating and managing volume sets
Creating and managing multi-volume file systems
Volume device visibility the U.S. and other countries. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners. Specifications and product offerings are subject to change without notice.
Administering raw device access
Implementing SmartTier (ST)
What is SmartTier?
SmartTier concepts
Creating storage tiers
Implementing file placement policies
Co-existence with Array based Snapshots
Understanding and selecting snapshot technologies
How Volume Manager detects hardware snapshots
Managing clone disks
Using disk tags
Using Full-Copy Volume Snapshots
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
Performance Tuning
VxVM Tunables and Volume best practices
VxFS Tunables, inode cache, and cache advisories
DMP Tunables
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
Replicating a Veritas File System
Understanding Veritas File Replicator
Setting up replication for a Veritas file system
Error recovery with Veritas File Replicator
Managing the Boot Disk with Storage Foundation
Placing a non-boot disk under VxVM control
Placing a boot disk under VxVM control
Creating an alternate boot disk
Administering the boot disk
Removing the book disk from VxVM control
New Features and Enhancements in Storage
Foundation
SF 6.1 and Smart I/O
Support for caching on SSDs
This is a version-specific reference outline. Confirm the current syllabus and delivery arrangements with EIEIO.