Solaris Volume Manager Administration

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code.

ES-222

length.

3 days

type.

Instructor-Led

partner.

Sun Microsystems

price.

$1,800 :: $1,530 GSA GOV.

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.

There are currently no scheduled dates for this course. If you are interested in this course, request a course date with the links below.

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

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

related courses, exams and materials

	before related training and products

	SA-119 UNIX Essentials Featuring the Solaris 9 OS
	SA-239 Intermediate System Administration for the Solaris 9 OS

	after related training and products

ES-338 Sun Cluster 3.1 Administration

course content details

	Module 1 - Introduction to Managing Data

	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