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Solaris Volume Manager Administration

Instructor-Led Length : 3 Days Lecture:50% Lab:50%

Supports Sun Certification.

The Solaris Volume Manager Administration course provides students with the essential knowledge and skills needed to perform Solaris Volume Manager software administration tasks. The course provides practical exercises to learn the Solaris Volume Manager software features using both command-line programs and the Enhanced Storage tool.

Experienced Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS) system administrators who need to configure or maintain software Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) solutions based on the Solaris Volume Manager software.

Note that this course is intended for students who maintain their own systems. Maintenance you perform on your Sun systems may void your warranty or service contract with Sun.

To succeed fully in this course, delegates should be able to:
4

Configure environmental variables

4

Control system run levels

4

Use basic OpenBoot commands

4 Physically configure Sun desktop systems and peripherals
4

Configure UNIX file systems (UFS)

4

Use the following UNIX administrative commands:

4
chmod, chown, and chgrp
4

format

4

mkdir

4

mkfs and newfs

4

mount

4

pkgadd and pkgrm

4

patchadd

4

vi

4
man

Upon completion of this course, delegates should be able to:
4

Administer the Solaris Volume Manager software by using command-line programs and the Enhanced Storage tool

4

Administer the Solaris Volume Manager software state databases

4

Create and administer simple, striped, concatenated, and mirrored volumes

4

Create volume structures using both hard and soft partitions

4

Verify the status of the Solaris Volume Manager software volumes and state databases

4

Create and administer the Solaris Volume Manager software file systems

4

Replace failed volume components

4

Replace a failed disk

4

Describe the features of the Solaris Volume Manager software disksets

Before :
4 SA-239: Intermediate System Administration for the Solaris 9 Operating System

After:
4 ES-333: Sun Cluster 3.0 Administration




Module 1 - Introduction to Managing Data

4

List the primary reasons for using software RAID management

4

Introduce commonly implemented RAID levels

4

Identify common RAID standards and terminology

4

List the common features of each supported RAID level

4

Identify the primary advantage of each supported RAID level

4

Identify a primary limitation of each supported RAID level

4

Describe the optimum hardware configuration for each supported RAID level

Module 2 - Introduction to the Solaris Volume Manager Software

4

Describe the upgrade process for the Solaris 9 OS

4

Perform basic Solaris Management Console operations

4

Perform basic Enhanced Storage tool operations

4

Perform basic command-line operations

4

Describe the purpose of the state database

4

Initialize the Solaris Volume Manager software state database by using command-line programs and the Enhanced Storage tool

4

Identify the storage configuration by using command-line programs and the Enhanced Storage tool

Module 3 - Administering the State Database

4

Explain the state database consensus algorithm

4

List configuration guidelines for state database replicas

4

Identify faulty state database replica configurations

4

Describe the purpose of the Solaris Volume Manager software configuration files

4

Use the /etc/lvm/md.tab file to create state database replicas

4

Administer state database replicas by using command-line programs and the Enhanced Storage tool

4

Create replicas and describe the methods of initializing the state database when there is no available disk space

4

Recover from state database failures

Module 4 - Administering Concatenated and Striped Volumes

4

Describe typical applications for simple, concatenated, and striped volumes

4

List the structural elements of the Solaris Volume Manager software concatenated and striped volumes

4

Use the /etc/lvm/md.tab file to create concatenated and striped volumes

4

Administer concatenated and striped volumes by using command-line programs and the Enhanced Storage tool

4

Explain the use of striped volume interlace values

4

Add a file system to a new volume

4

Create soft partitions

Module 5 - Administering Mirrored Volumes and Hot Spares

4

List the structural elements of the Solaris Volume Manager software mirrored volumes

4

Describe the typical use and limitations of mirrored volumes

4

Describe the metainit command syntax that is used to create a mirrored volume

4

Create mirrored volumes by using command-line programs and the Enhanced Storage tool

4

Explain the use of mirror read and write policies

4

Attach and detach volume submirrors

4

Place volume submirrors online and offline

4

Mirror the system boot disk root and swap slices

4

Use hot spares with mirrored volumes and describe the purpose of hot spares

4

Administer hot spare pools by using command-line programs and the Enhanced Storage tool

4

Use soft partitions on top of mirrored volumes

Module 6 - Administering RAID-5 Volumes

4

List the structural elements of the Solaris Volume Manager software RAID-5 volumes

4

Describe the typical use and limitations of RAID-5 volumes

4

Create RAID-5 volumes by using command-line programs and the Enhanced Storage tool

4

Create soft partitions on top of RAID-5 volumes

Module 7 - Performing Advanced Operations

4

Enable Solaris OS file system logging

4

Enable Solaris Volume Manager file system logging

4

Expand an existing file system

4

Un-mirror the system boot disk

4

Use soft partitions with hardware RAID devices

4

Replace a failed disk drive

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