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Veritas InfoScale Storage 7.0 for Linux: Administration

  • Course Code HA0411
  • Duration 5 days

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This course is available in the following formats:

  • Company Event

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  • Public Classroom

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  • Virtual Learning

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Course Overview

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This five day, instructor-led, hands-on class covers how to use InfoScale Storage to manage disks, disk groups, and volumes by using a variety of InfoScale Storage user interfaces including the Veritas InfoScale Operations Manager (VIOM) Web console. You learn the basics of online file system administration and recovery from disk failures. In addition, you learn about data replication using Veritas File Replicator and Veritas Volume Replicator. You also learn how to configure Veritas Cluster Volume Manager and Veritas Cluster File System.

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Target Audience

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This course is for Linux system administrators, system engineers, technical support personnel, network/SAN administrators, and systems integration/development staff, who will be installing, operating, or integrating InfoScale Storage.

Course Objectives

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

  • Create, configure, and manage disks, disk groups, and volumes.
  • Administer file systems.
  • Manage components in the VxVM architecture.
  • Manage multiple paths to disk devices.
  • Identify types of disk failures and how to resolve them.
  • Describe concepts and components specific to Veritas Replicator, and Veritas File Replicator.
  • Configure a CFS cluster according to a specified sample design.
  • Configure shared disk groups and volumes.
  • Configure shared file systems.
  • Share local disks among systems in a cluster.

Course Content

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Storage Foundation Basics

Virtual Objects

  • Operating system storage devices and virtual data storage
  • Volume Manager storage objects
  • VxVM volume layouts and RAID levels

Creating a Volume and File System

  • Preparing disks and disk groups for volume creation
  • Creating a volume and adding a file system
  • Displaying disk and disk group information
  • Displaying volume configuration information
  • Removing volumes, disks, and disk groups
  • Working with Volumes with Different Layouts

    • Volume layouts
    • Creating volumes with various layouts
    • Allocating storage for volumes
    • Making Configuration Changes

      • Administering mirrored volumes
      • Resizing a volume and a file system
      • Moving data between systems
      • Renaming VxVM objects
      • Administering File Systems

        • Benefits of using Veritas File System
        • Using Veritas File System commands
        • Logging in VxFS
        • Controlling file system fragmentation
        • Using thin provisioning disk arrays
        • Storage Foundation Managing Devices

          Dynamic Multi-Pathing

          • Managing components in the VxVM architecture
          • Discovering disk devices
          • Managing multiple paths to disk devices
          • Dynamic Multi-Pathing for VMware

            • DMP in a VMware ESX/ESXi environment
            • Managing DMP for VMware
            • Performance monitoring and tuning

            Resolving Hardware Problems

            • How does VxVM interpret failures in hardware?
            • Recovering disabled disk groups
            • Resolving disk failures
            • Managing hot relocation at the host level
            • Storage Foundation Cluster File System

              Cluster File System Architecture

              • CFS overview
              • CFS architecture
              • CFS communication
              • Cluster Volume Manager

                • VxVM and CVM overview
                • CVM concepts
                • CVM configuration
                • Cluster File System

                  • Cluster File System concepts
                  • Data flow in CFS
                  • Group Lock Manager
                  • Administering CFS
                  • Flexible Storage Sharing

                    • Understanding Flexible Storage Sharing
                    • FSS storage objects
                    • FSS case study
                    • FSS configuration
                    • FSS limitations
                    • Replication

                      Disaster Recovery Overview

                      • Disaster recovery
                      • Benefits of a disaster recovery solution
                      • Disaster recovery concepts
                      • Veritas disaster recovery technology overview
                      • Veritas File Replicator

                        • Understanding Veritas File Replicator
                        • Setting up replication for a Veritas file system
                        • Error recovery with Veritas File Replicator
                        • Veritas Volume Replicator

                          • Defining replication
                          • Replication options and technologies
                          • Veritas Volume Replicator overview
                          • Veritas Volume Replicator Components

                            • Comparing volume replication and volume management
                            • Volume Replicator components
                            • Volume Replicator data flow
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                              Course Prerequisites

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                              •  Veritas InfoScale 7.0 for Linux: Installation