Detailed Course Outline
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
- 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