VERITAS volume manager for HP-UX

Special notes

This course was replaced with a new Veritas Volume Manager Administration class, course HB505S. You will be automatically redirected to the new course page momentarily.

Prerequisites

HP-UX System and Network Administration I & II (H3064S & H3065S) or equivalent experience.

Audience

HPUX system administrators, systems engineers, and technical support representatives responsible for systems that use the VERITAS Volume Manager.

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Course Objectives

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

• Install and configure the VxVM software.
• Manage disks using the graphical, menu, and command line interfaces.
• View the VxVM configuration.
• Create bootable disk group
• Create, extend, reduce, rename, and destroy VxVM disk groups.
• Deport and import VxVM disk groups.
• Convert LVM volume groups to VxVM disk groups.
• Create, extend, reduce, rename, and destroy VxVM volumes.
• Configure and manage Dynamic Multi-Pathing (DMP).
• Recover and replace failed or corrupted VxVM disks and volumes.

Benefits to you

Gain the skills you need to install, configure and effectively maintain VERITAS Volume Manager on your HP-UX system.

Course outline

• VxVM overview
• VxVM concepts
• VxVM terminology
• VxVM objects
• VxVM volume layouts
• VxVM and LVM comparison
• Installing and initializing VxVM
• Installing VxVM
• Configuring the initial rootdg disk group with vxinstall
• Using the VxVM interfaces
• Using the VxVM command line interface
• Using the VxVM vxdiskadm menu interface
• Using the VxVM VEA graphical interface
• Customizing VEA security
• Managing VxVM Disks
• Adding a disk
• Viewing a disk
• Removing a disk
• Renaming a disk
• Moving a disk
• Managing VxVM disk groups
• Disk group concepts
• Viewing a disk group
• Deporting and importing disk groups
• Moving disk groups between systems
• Renaming a disk group
• Destroying a disk group
• Upgrading a disk group
• Creating a volume
• Volume layouts
• Creating a volume
• Displaying a volume
• Removing a volume
• Configuring VxVM volumes
• Adding a mirror
• Removing a mirror
• Adding a log
• Changing the volume read policy
• Adding a file system to a volume
• Storage attributes for volumes
• Ordered allocation for volumes
• Layered volume layouts
• Creating a layered volume
• Viewing a layered volume
• VxVM volume maintenance
• Volume resizing
• Volume reconfiguration
• LVM conversion and rootability
• LVM to VxVM conversion overview
• Converting unused LVM physical volumes to VxVM disks
• Converting LVM volume groups to VxVM disk groups
• Restoring LVM volume group information
• Exploring rootability
• VxVM architecture
• Monitoring the VxVM configuration database
• Controlling the configuration daemon
• Introduction to recovery
• Resynchronization
• VxVM logging
• Hot relocation
• Managing spare disks
• Disk replacement
• Disk unrelocation
• Recovering a volume
• Protecting the VxVm configuration