Course Description

This course is designed for system management and support people who have experience managing an UNIX environment and need to configure and support the VERITAS Volume Manager.

Who Should Attend?

Systems administrators and support personnel.

Prerequisites

The students taking this course should have the following skills.

• Install and manage an UNIX system
• Troubleshoot the operating system and make adjustments to improve performance
• Manage traditional UNIX disk partitioning
• Perform typical UNIX system management tasks, such as backup and adding user accounts
• Students can gain this information by taking the following courses:
  • MultiVendor UNIX System Administration

Benefits of Attending this Class

• Upon completion of this course, the student should be able to:
• Determine hardware and software needs for the VERITAS Volume Manager
• Configure the hardware necessary to support hardware RAID
• Install the software necessary to support the VERITAS Volume Manager
• Explain the VERITAS Volume Manager concepts of diskgroup, disks, subdisks, plexes, volumes, concatenation, striping, and mirroring.
• Set up and initialize the VERITAS Volume Manager from the command line.
• Manage the VERITAS Volume Manager using the command line interface.
• Mirror the root, swap, and /usr partitions with the VERITAS Volume Manager.
• Create and mirror volumes, then back up a volume using the volassist command.
• Set up and initialize the VERITAS Volume Manager using the volsetup utility.
• Describe the benefits of, set up, and use block-change logging.
• Describe the benefits of, set up, and use dirty-region logging.
• Describe and use hotsparing.
• Manage VERITAS Volume Manager configurations using the Visual Administrator.