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Veritas Volume Manager Administration on HP-UX

Length: 4 Days                   

Prerequisite: HP-UX System and Network Administration I and II or equivalent experience.

Recommendation Statement:
It is assumed that the student has experience managing the HP-UX 11i environment with an advanced level of experience. The student should have experience configuring HP-UX, controlling run levels, understand the HP-UX file system structure, understand HP-UX file ownership and permissions and administer HP-UX OS packages.

Course Description: 
The VERITAS Volume Manager Administration course provides students with the essential information and skills to manage storage arrays and SANs using VERITAS Volume Manager (VxVM) software. Students are introduced to the installation, initialization, and configuration of VxVM and to general performance issues. Basic VERITAS File System (VxFS) installation and configuration is also presented.

Upon completion of this course, you should be able to:

• Analyze and document storage configurations
• Optimize the system and volume configurations for availability and performance
• Install and initialize the VxVM software
• Perform VxVM disk drive operations, such as creating a new disk group, adding and removing a disk from a disk group, and displaying properties of VxVM objects
• Create, Manage and Remove volumes and file systems
• Perform advanced operations, such as performing an online volume relayout, moving a populated disk to a new disk group, and creating layered volumes with a file system
• Manage striped and RAID5 volumes
• Analyze basic volume performance
• Perform basic VxFS administration
• Manage VxVM boot disks
• Convert LVM volume groups to VxVM disk groups

Call (616)-875-4060 for more information or to register