COURSE DESCRIPTION
Course Objectives
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
• Create and manage virtual volumes and volume
snapshots.
• Perform disk group move, split, and join operations.
• Implement off-host processing techniques.
• Resize volumes, change volume layouts, and
manage volume tasks.
• Perform basic recovery operations.
Prerequisites
You must have experience as a system and network
administrator working in a Windows environment.
COURSE OUTLINE
PART 1: Veritas Storage Foundation 5.1 – Install and
Configure
Virtual Objects
• Physical and Virtual Data Storage
• SFW Storage Objects
• SFW RAID Levels and Volume Layouts
Installing and Accessing SFW Interfaces
• Installation Prerequisites
• Adding License Keys
• SFW Software Packages
• Installing SFW
• SFW User Interfaces
Working with Disk Groups and Volumes
• Preparing Disks and Disk Groups for Volume Creation
• Creating a Volume
• Adding a File System to an Existing Volume
• Displaying Disk and Disk Group Information
• Displaying Volume Configuration Information
• Removing Volumes, Disks, and Disk Groups
Working with Volumes with Different Layouts
• Comparing Volume Layouts
• Creating Volumes with Various Layouts
• Creating a Partition and Logical Drive
PART 2: Veritas Storage Foundation 5.1 – Manage
and Administer
Making Configuration Changes
• Administering Mirrored Volumes
• Resizing a Volume
• Changing a Drive Letter or Path
• Moving Data Between Systems
• Upgrading a Dynamic Disk Group
Implementing Offline and Off-Host Processing
• Offline and Off-Host Processing Tasks
• Creating a Volume Snapshot
• Performing Dynamic Disk Group Split and Join
• Enabling FastResync
• Implementing Off-Host Processing
Using Recovery Features
• Monitoring Objects and Events
• Maintaining Data Consistency
• Configuration Backup and Restore
• Managing Hot Relocation at the Host level
• Troubleshooting Disk Replacement and Recovered
Volumes
Managing Performance
• Monitoring I/O
• Setting Capacity Monitoring Parameters
• Changing the Volume Layout
• Setting Caching for Volumes
• Using SmartMove
• Manipulating Subdisks and Disks
Administering DMP
• Overview of Dynamic Multipathing
• Managing Arrays, Individual Disks, and Paths
• Specifying Load Balancing Settings
• Specifying Control Timer Settings for an Array
