Veritas Volume Manager 4.1 Administration (ES-311)

Upon completion of this course, students should be able to:

>> Analyze and document storage configurations
>> Optimize the system and volume configurations for availability and performance
>> Install and initialize the VxVM software
>> Perform VxVM disk drive operations, such as creating a new disk group, adding and removing a disk from a disk group, and displaying properties of VxVM objects
>> Create volumes and file systems
>> Perform advanced operations, such as performing an online volume relayout, moving a populated disk to a new disk group, and creating layered volumes with a file system
>> Analyze basic volume performance
>> Perform basic VxFS administration
>> Perform advanced VxFS administration

The VERITAS Volume Manager 4.1 Administration course provides students with the essential information and skills to manage Sun disk storage arrays using VERITAS Volume Manager (VxVM) software. Students are introduced to the new 4.1 features and enhancements, installation, configuration of VxVM, and advanced administrative tasks. The course also covers the VERITAS File System (VxFS) software product, including: installation and configuration, online administrative tasks, modifying kernel tunable parameters, and setting VxFS quotas.