Solaris Volume Manager Administration

The Solaris Volume Manager Administration course provides Sun partners, resellers, and customers with the knowledge and skills to ensure proper implementation and support of the Solaris Volume Manager software. These skills include, but are not limited to, planning, configuration, and administration.

Students who can benefit from this course:

• Post-sales channel resellers, Value-Added Resellers (VAR), Field Service Engineers (FEs), and End Users

Audience
Course Topics Introduction to Managing Data

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

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

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

Administer Concatenated and Striped Volumes

• 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

Administer Mirrored Volumes and Hot Spares

• Describe mirrored volume characteristics and 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
• Use the Enhanced Storage tool to create mirrored volumes
• Mirror existing file systems and the system boot disk
• Use soft partitions with mirrored volumes

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

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

Course Objectives

• 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