The Solaris Volume Manager Administration course provides Sun partners, resellers, and customers with the knowledge and skills to ensure proper implementation and support of the Solaris Volume Manager software. These skills include, but are not limited to planning, configuration, and administration.
Skills Gained
Upon completion of this course, students should be able to:
Administer the Solaris Volume Manager software by using command-line programs and the Enhanced Storage tool
Administer the Solaris Volume Manager software state databases
Create and administer simple, striped, concatenated, and mirrored volumes
Create volume structures using both hard and soft partitions
Verify the status of the Solaris Volume Manager software volumes and state databases
Create and administer the Solaris Volume Manager software file systems
Replace failed volume components
Replace a failed disk
Describe the features of the Solaris Volume Manager software disksets
Who Can Benefit
Students who can benefit from this course are:
Post-sales channel resellers
Value added retail (VAR) field service engineers (FEs)
Customer FEs and end users
Prerequisites
To succeed fully in this course, students should be able to:
Use the OPEN LOOK graphical user interface (GUI)
Use the Solaris 2 Operating System (OS) device naming conventions
Administer disks and file systems
Back up and restore file systems
Change system run levels
Configure environmental variables
Use basic OpenBoot commands
Configure UNIX file systems (UFS)
Use the following UNIX administrative commands:
chmod, chown, and chgrp
format
mkdir
mkfs and newfs
mount
patchadd
vi
man
Code:
ES-222
Length:
3 days
Type:
Instructor-Led
Certified By:
Sun Microsystems
Tuition:
$1,800 / $1,530 GSA GOV.
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Describe the advantages of virtual disk management
Describe RAID technology standards and terminology
Desbribe the appropriate use of each supported RAID level
Optimize system configurations for each supported RAID level
Module 2 - Introduction to the Solaris Volume Manager Software
Describe the upgrade process for the Solaris 10 OS
Perform basic Solaris Management Console operations
Perform basic Enhanced Storage tool operations
Describe state database features
Initialize the Solaris Volume Manager software
Module 3 - Administering the State Database
Describe the state database consensus algorithm
Describe state database best practices
Describe the Solaris Volume Manager software configuration files
Analyze state database status flags
Add state database replicas
Recover from state database failures
Module 4 - Administering Concatenated and Striped Volumes
Describe non-redundant volume characteristics
Describe concatenated and striped volume best practices
Describe logical volume naming conventions
Use the metainit command to create non-redundant volumes
Use the md.tab file to create non-redundant volumes
Use the Enhanced Storage tool to create non-redundant volumes
Display volume properties and status
Add file systems to new volumes
Create soft partitions
Module 5 - Administering Mirrored Volumes and Hot Spares
Describe mirrored volume characteristics
Describe mirrored volume best practices
Describe optimized mirror resynchronization
Describe mirrored volume read, write, and synchronization policies
Use the metainit command to create mirrored volumes
Configure hot spares for mirrored volumes
Describe the use of complex mirror structures
Administer volume submirrors
Use the Enhanced Storage tool to create mirrored volumes
Mirror existing file systems
Mirror the system boot disk
Use soft partitions with mirrored volumes
Module 6 - Administering RAID-5 Volumes
Describe RAID-5 volume characteristics
Describe RAID-5 volume best practices
Create RAID-5 volumes
Create soft partitions on top of RAID-5 volumes
Module 7 - Performing Advanced Operations
Modify the mdmonitord daemon error reporting behavior
Describe using soft partitions with hardware RAID devices
Describe how to recover from soft disk errors
Expand existing file systems
Use the metassist command to perform top-down volume creation
Un-mirror the system boot disk
Replace a failed disk drive
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