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Solaris Volume Manager Administration

This 3-day course costs $1,800 and teaches students how to administer the Solaris Volume Manager software. Upon completion, students will be able to create and manage simple, striped, concatenated, and mirrored volumes. They will also be able to replace failed volume components, replace failed disks, and describe Solaris Volume Manager disksets. The course covers topics such as RAID technology, the Solaris Volume Manager software, state databases, and administering various volume types.

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Solaris Volume Manager Administration

This 3-day course costs $1,800 and teaches students how to administer the Solaris Volume Manager software. Upon completion, students will be able to create and manage simple, striped, concatenated, and mirrored volumes. They will also be able to replace failed volume components, replace failed disks, and describe Solaris Volume Manager disksets. The course covers topics such as RAID technology, the Solaris Volume Manager software, state databases, and administering various volume types.

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Solaris Volume Manager (SVM) Administration

(ES-222 equivalent)

Duration: 3 days Cost: $1,800

Prerequisites:
• Use the CDE or Gnome 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, chgrp, format, mkdir, mkfs, newfs, mount, patchadd, vi, and man

Upon completion of this course, students will have performed the following tasks:
• 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

Course Content:
Introduction to Managing Data
• Describe the advantages of virtual disk management vs. conventional Unix file
systems
• Describe RAID technology standards and terminology
• Describe the appropriate use of each supported RAID level
• Optimize system configurations for each supported RAID level

Introduction to the Solaris Volume Manager Software


• Perform basic Solaris Management Console operations
• Perform basic Enhanced Storage tool operations
• Describe state database features
• Initialize the Solaris Volume Manager software

Administer 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

Administer 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

Administer Mirrored Volumes and Hot Spares


• Describe mirrored volume characteristics
• Describe mirrored volume best practices
• Use the metainit command to create mirrored volumes
• Configure hot spares for mirrored volumes
• 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

Administer 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

Performing Advanced Operations


• 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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