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Course number
HB505S
Length
4 days
Delivery method*
Remotely assisted instructional learning (
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Price
USD $2,800
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Prerequisites
HP-UX System and Network Administration I & II (H3064S & H3065S ) or
Equivalent HP-UX administration experience
Course objectives
At the conclusion of this course you should be able to:
Install the VxVM software
Manage DMP and nMP multipathed LUNs
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 resources
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 and 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 mirroring tasks
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
Importing disk groups in a Serviceguard cluster
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
PA-RISC VxVM boot disk structure
Integrity VxVM boot disk structure
Cold installing a VxVM boot disk
Copying an LVM boot disk to a VxVM boot disk
Destroying an LVM boot disk
Mirroring a VxVM boot disk
Verifying a VxVM boot disk
Backing up a VxVM boot disk
Replacing a failed VxVM boot disk mirror
Removing a VxVM boot disk mirror
Restoring an LVM boot disk
VxVM Considerations for Disk Arrays
Arrays and LUNs
Array concepts
LUN concepts
RAID concepts
RAID 0, RAID 1, and RAID 1+0 concepts
RAID 3, RAID 5, and RAID 5DP concepts
RAID levels and VxVM
Configuring a LUN as a VxVM disk
Extending a LUN
SANs and Enclosures
SAN concepts
Enclosure concepts
Enclosure-based name concepts
Enabling enclosure-based names
Viewing enclosure-based names
Customizing enclosure-based names
Using enclosure-based names
VxVM 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
Monitoring DMP activity
HP-UX nMP
HP-UX 11i v3 mass storage stack concepts
HP-UX 11i v3 DSF concepts
Enabling VxVM disk device names
Reverting back to cxtxdx VxVM device names
HP-UX 11i v3 nMP concepts
Enabling HP-UX nMP
Reverting back to VxVM DMP
HP-UX disk and SAN addressing (self study appendix)
Legacy vs. Agile View hardware addresses
Legacy parallel SCSI hardware addresses
Legacy FC hardware addresses
Legacy DSF names
Viewing legacy hardware addresses and DSFs
Agile View SCSI hardware addresses
Agile View FC lunpath hardware addresses
Agile View FC LUN hardware addresses
Agile View persistent DSFs
Viewing Agile View hardware addresses and DSFs
Viewing an HBA's lunpaths via Agile View
Viewing a LUN's lunpaths via Agile View
Viewing a LUN's WWID and LUN ID via Agile View
Viewing a LUN's WWID and lunpaths via Agile View
Selecting a path load balancing policy
Monitoring HBA, LUN, and lunpath usage
Monitoring HB, LUN, and lunpath health
Enabling and disabling LUNs and lunpaths
LVM / VxVM command comparison (self study appendix)
