Veritas Volume Manager 4.1 & 5.1

Module 1 - Sun Storage Concepts

Describe the major disk storage administration tasks

Describe Sun storage interface types

Describe available Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) technologies including:

Host-based RAID technology

Controller-based RAID technology

Describe disk storage concepts that are common to many storage installations, including:

Hot swapping

Storage area networking

Multihost access

Multipath access

Identify storage configurations by:

Conducting a physical inventory

Displaying storage configurations

Identifying controller addresses

Decoding logical device paths

Verify storage array firmware revisions

 Module 2 - Managing Data

List the advantages of using virtual disk management

Describe standard RAID terminology

List the common features of each supported RAID level including:

Concatenation - RAID 0

Striping - RAID 0

Mirroring - RAID 1

Mirrored Stripe (Striping plus mirroring) - RAID 0+1

Mirrored Concatenation - RAID 0+1

Striped Mirror (Mirroring plus striping) - RAID 1+0

Concatenated Mirror - RAID 1+0

Striping with distributed parity - RAID 5

Describe the optimum hardware configuration for each supported RAID level

Module 3 - VERITAS Volume Manager Installation

Identify the new features of VERITAS Volume Manager 4.1

List the key elements of preinstallation planning

Research VxVM software patch requirements

Install the VxVM software

Describe the three installation methods:

The installvm method

The installer method

The pkgadd method

Initialize the VxVM software

Module 4 - VERITAS Volume Manager Basic Operations

Describe the function of VxVM disk groups

List disk group administrative operations including:

Initialize disk drives for VxVM use

Create disk groups

Add and remove disk drives for a disk group

Import and deport disk groups

Destroy a disk group

Rename VxVM disk drives

Administer disk groups using the vxdiskadm utility

Administer disk groups using command-line programs

Administer disk groups using the Veritas Enterprise Administrator (VEA) GUI

Module 5 - VERITAS Volume Manager Volume Operations

Interpret volume structure listings

Describe volume planning activities

Create volumes using the vxassist command

Create volumes using the VEA GUI

Modify volume access attributes

Add file systems to existing volumes

Add and remove volume logs

Use the VEA GUI to analyze volume structures

Module 6 - VERITAS Volume Manager Advanced Operations

Encapsulate and mirror the system boot disk

Administer hot spares and hot relocation

Evacuate all subdisks from a disk drive

Move a disk drive without preserving data

Move a populated disk drive to a new disk group

Back up and restore a disk group configuration

Describe how to import a disk group after a system crash

Perform a volume snapshot backup

Perform an online volume relayout

Create VxVM layered volumes

Perform basic Intelligent Storage Provisioning administration

Replace a failed disk drive

Module 7 - VERITAS File System Basic Operations

Describe basic VxFS features

Install the VxFS software

Create VxFS file systems

Use extended VxFS mount options

Perform online VxFS administration tasks

Modify kernel tunable parameters

Describe Storage Checkpoints

Describe VxFS file system quotas

Module 8 - VERITAS Volume Manager Advanced Operations

Encapsulate and mirror the system boot disk

Administer hot spares and hot relocation

Evacuate allSubdisk from a disk drive

Move a populated disk drive to a new disk group

Backup and restore a disk group configuration

Describe how to import a disk group after a system crash

Perform a volume Snapshot backup

Perform an online volume relayout

Create Vxvm Layered volumes

Replace a failed disk drive

Module9 - VERITAS Volume Manager Performance Management

Describe performance improvement techniques

Use the vxstat and vxtrace performance analysis tools

Describe RAID-5 write performance characteristics

Veritas Cluster 4.1 & 5.1

High Availability Concepts

High availability concepts

Clustering concepts

HA application services

Clustering prerequisites

High availability references

VCS Building Blocks

VCS Terminology

Cluster Communication

VCS Architecture

Preparing a Site for VCS Implementation

Hardware requirements and recommendations

Software requirements and recommendations

Preparing installation information

Preparing to upgrade

Installing VCS

Using the Veritas Product Installer

VCS Configuration Files

Viewing the Default VCS Configuration

Other Installation Considerations

VCS Operations

Common VCS tools and operations

Service group operations

Resource operations

Using the VCS Simulator

VCS Configuration Methods

Starting and Stopping VCS

Overview of Configuration Methods

Online Configuration

Offline Configuration

Controlling Access to VCS

Preparing Services for High Availability

Preparing applications for VCS

Performing one-time configuration tasks

Testing the application service

Stopping and migrating an application service

Collecting configuration information

Online Configuration

Online Service Group Configuration

Adding Resources

Solving Common Configuration Errors

Testing the Service Group

Offline Configuration

Offline configuration procedures

Solving offline configuration problems

Testing the service group

Cluster Communications

VCS Communications Review

Cluster Membership

Cluster Interconnect Configuration

Joining the Cluster Membership

Changing the Interconnect Configuration

Clustering NFS

Preparing NFS for high availability

Testing the NFS service

Configuring NFS resources

NFS lock failover

Alternative NFS configurations

System and Communication Faults

Ensuring data integrity

Cluster interconnect failures

I/O Fencing

Data protection requirements

I/O fencing concepts and components

I/O fencing operations

I/O fencing implementation

Configuring I/O fencing

Coordination point server

Troubleshooting

Monitoring VCS

Troubleshooting Guide

Archiving VCS-Related Files