Solaris Volume Manager Administration (ES-222)

Who Can Benefit

• Post-sales channel resellers
• Value added retail (VAR) field service engineers (FEs)
• Customer FEs and end users

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Prerequisites

• Use the OPEN LOOK graphical user interface (GUI)
• Use the Solaris 2 Operating System (OS) device naming conventions
• Administer disks and file systems
• Back up and restore file systems
• Change system run levels
• Configure environmental variables
• Use basic OpenBoot commands
• Configure UNIX file systems (UFS)
• Use the following UNIX administrative commands:
  • chmod, chown, and chgrp
  • format
  • mkdir
  • mkfs and newfs
  • mount
  • patchadd
  • vi
  • man

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Skills Gained

• Administer the Solaris Volume Manager software by using command-line programs and the Enhanced Storage tool
• Administer the Solaris Volume Manager software state databases
• Create and administer simple, striped, concatenated, and mirrored volumes
• Create volume structures using both hard and soft partitions
• Verify the status of the Solaris Volume Manager software volumes and state databases
• Create and administer the Solaris Volume Manager software file systems
• Replace failed volume components
• Replace a failed disk
• Describe the features of the Solaris Volume Manager software disksets

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Related Courses

Before:

• UNIX Essentials Featuring the Solaris 9 Operating System (SA-119)
• Intermediate System Administration for the Solaris 9 Operating System (SA-239)

After:

• Sun Cluster 3.1 Administration (ES-338)

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Course Content

Module 1 - Introduction to Managing Data

• Describe the advantages of virtual disk management
• Describe RAID technology standards and terminology
• Desbribe the appropriate use of each supported RAID level
• Optimize system configurations for each supported RAID level

Module 2 - Introduction to the Solaris Volume Manager Software

• Describe the upgrade process for the Solaris 10 OS
• Perform basic Solaris Management Console operations
• Perform basic Enhanced Storage tool operations
• Describe state database features
• Initialize the Solaris Volume Manager software

Module 3 - Administer the State Database

• Describe the state database consensus algorithm
• Describe state database best practices
• Describe the Solaris Volume Manager software configuration files
• Analyze state database status flags
• Add state database replicas
• Recover from state database failures

Module 4 - Administer Concatenated and Striped Volumes

• Describe non-redundant volume characteristics
• Describe concatenated and striped volume best practices
• Describe logical volume naming conventions
• Use the metainit command to create non-redundant volumes
• Use the md.tab file to create non-redundant volumes
• Use the Enhanced Storage tool to create non-redundant volumes
• Display volume properties and status
• Add file systems to new volumes
• Create soft partitions

Module 5 - Administer Mirrored Volumes and Hot Spares

• Describe mirrored volume characteristics
• Describe mirrored volume best practices
• Describe optimized mirror resynchronization
• Describe mirrored volume read, write, and synchronization policies
• Use the metainit command to create mirrored volumes
• Configure hot spares for mirrored volumes
• Describe the use of complex mirror structures
• Administer volume submirrors
• Use the Enhanced Storage tool to create mirrored volumes
• Mirror existing file systems
• Mirror the system boot disk
• Use soft partitions with mirrored volumes

Module 6 - Administer RAID-5 Volumes

• Describe RAID-5 volume characteristics
• Describe RAID-5 volume best practices
• Create RAID-5 volumes
• Create soft partitions on top of RAID-5 volumes

Module 7 - Performing Advanced Operations

• Modify the mdmonitord daemon error reporting behavior
• Describe using soft partitions with hardware RAID devices
• Describe how to recover from soft disk errors
• Expand existing file systems
• Use the metassist command to perform top-down volume creation
• Un-mirror the system boot disk
• Replace a failed disk drive

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