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Course number HB505S
Length 4 days
Delivery method Remotely assisted instructional learning ( RAIL)
Onsite dedicated training ( OST)
Price USD $2,800
CAD $2,880

Special notes

This course replaces the previous H7085S course.


Course overview

This hands-on course covers the configuration and administration of VERITAS Volume Manager (VxVM) for HP-UX. Covering basic procedures to advanced configuration and recovery topics, the course is 50 percent lecture and 50 percent hands-on.


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 the VxVM software
  • View your VxVM configuration
  • Configure, extend, reduce, deport, import, and destroy disk groups
  • Configure, extend, reduce, move, and destroy volumes
  • Manage mirrored volumes
  • Manage striped and RAID5 volumes
  • Manage layered volumes
  • Manage VxVM boot disks
  • Convert LVM volume groups to VxVM disk groups
  • Replace and recover failed disks, volumes, and plexes
 

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
  • Volume management overview
  • VxVM feature overview
  • VxVM and LVM comparison
  • VxVM and LVM coexistence

VxVM concepts

  • Disk group concepts
  • Volume concepts
  • Plex concepts
  • Disk media concepts
  • Subdisk concepts
  • Simple volume layouts
  • Concatenated volume layouts
  • Striped volume layouts
  • RAID5 volume layouts
  • Mirrored volume layouts
  • Object database concepts
  • Storing objects on physical disks
  • Importing objects and disk groups
  • Accessing volumes via the object database
  • Managing objects via vxconfigd
  • VxVM/LVM conceptual comparison
  • VxVM/LVM command comparison

Installing and enabling VxVM

  • VxVM hardware & software requirements
  • VxVM versions
  • VxVM software bundles
  • Installing, listing, and verifying VxVM
  • Installing and enabling VxVM via Ignite-UX
  • Enabling VxVM via vxinstall
  • Modifying the PATH variable for VxVM
  • Verifying VxVM daemons
  • Managing the vxsvc daemon
  • Launching the vea GUI client
  • Securing the vea GUI client

Creating, extending, reducing, and removing disk groups

  • Viewing the disk configuration
  • Viewing the disk group configuration
  • Initializing a disk group
  • Adding a disk to a disk group
  • Removing a disk from a disk group
  • Destroying a disk group
  • Destroying a disk
  • Upgrading a disk group

Creating, extending, reducing, and removing volumes

  • Creating a volume
  • Selecting disks
  • Selecting a layout
  • Creating a file system volume
  • Creating a swap volume
  • Creating a dump volume
  • Viewing volumes
  • Resizing volumes
  • Resizing file system volumes
  • Resizing swap and dump volumes
  • Removing a volume

Managing mirrored volumes

  • Mirroring advantages
  • DRL log plex advantages
  • Creating, adding, and removing mirrors
  • Creating, adding, and removing DRLs
  • Configuring the volume read policy
  • Specifying a mirrored volume's plex locations
  • Monitoring and managing mirror
  • Configuring mirroring defaults

Managing striped and RAID5 volumes

  • Striping advantages
  • RAID5 advantages
  • RAID5 log plex advantages
  • Creating striped volumes
  • Creating RAID5 volumes
  • Adding and removing
  • RAID5 log plexes
  • Changing stripe and RAID5 attributes
  • Changing stripe and RAID5 layouts
  • Monitor and manage relayout tasks

Managing layered volumes (Self Study)

  • mirror-concat volume concepts
  • mirror-stripe volume concepts
  • concat-mirror volume concepts
  • stripe-mirror volume concepts
  • Recovering non-layered volumes after a disk crash
  • Recovering layered volumes after a disk crash
  • Creating layered and non-layered volumes
  • Converting between layered and non-layered volumes

Moving and renaming disks, disk groups, and other objects

  • Renaming disks, subdisks, volumes, and plexes
  • Moving subdisks within a disk group
  • Moving plexes within a disk group
  • Moving disks between disk groups
  • Moving disk groups between hosts Renaming disk groups

Replacing and recovering failed disks and volumes

  • Best practices to avoid data loss
  • Hot relocation concepts
  • Configuring spare and nohotuse disks
  • Unrelocating relocated subdisks after disk replacement
  • Assigning a new spare disk after disk replacement
  • Recognizing failed disks via syslog and EMS
  • Recognizing failed disks via vxdisk
  • Recognizing failed disks via vxprint
  • Verifying disks via diskinfo and dd
  • Reattaching a disk after transient disk failure
  • Replacing a failed disk, when at least one disk in the disk group survives
  • Replacing a failed disk, when no disks in a disk group survive
  • Recovering mirrored volumes with surviving plexes
  • Recovering mirrored volumes without surviving plexes

Converting LVM disks into VxVM disks

  • LVM to VxVM migration paths
  • LVM to VxVM migration limitations
  • Converting unused physical volumes into VxVM disks
  • Converting LVM volume groups into VxVM disk groups
  • Unconverting converted disk groups

Managing VxVM boot disks

  • PARISC VxVM boot disk structures
  • Integrity VxVM boot disk structures
  • Cold installing a VxVM boot disk
  • Copying an LVM boot disk to a VxVM boot disk
  • Mirroring a VxVM boot disk
  • Verifying a VxVM boot disk
  • Backing up a VxVM boot disk
  • Restoring a failed PARISC VxVM boot disk
  • Restoring a failed Integrity VxVM boot disk

VxVM considerations for disk arrays (Self Study)

  • Arrays and LUNS
    • Array concepts
    • LUN concepts
    • RAID concepts RAID 1, RAID 1, and RAID 1+0 concepts
    • RAID 3, RAID5, and RAID 6 concepts
    • RAID levels and VxVM
    • Configuring a LUN as a VXVM disk
    • Extending a LUN Removing a LUN
  • SANs and enclosures
    • SAN concepts
    • Enclosure concepts
    • Enclosure name concepts
    • Enabling enclosure-based names
    • Viewing enclosure-based names
    • Customizing enclosure-based names
    • Using enclosure-based names
  • DMP
    • Active/Passive DMP concepts
    • Active/Active DMP concepts
    • DDL and DMP node concepts
    • ASL concepts
    • Installing and viewing ASLs
    • Activating and deactivating
    • ASLs Initiating DMP path discovery
    • Viewing DMP paths
    • Disabling DMP paths
    • Choosing paths on A/A arrays
    • Choosing paths on A/P arrays
    • Monitoring DMP activity
  • Business Copy
    • Business Copy concepts
    • Importing a business copy
    • Deporting a business copy

Integrating VxVM and Serviceguard (Self Study)

  • Serviceguard concepts
  • Serviceguard benefits
  • Configuring disk groups, volumes, and file systems for use in a cluster
  • Configuring a basic quorum server, cluster, and package
  • Adding disks to a disk group in a package
  • Adding volumes to a package

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