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 Solaris Volume Manager (SVM) Administration

Length: 3 Days                   

Course Description: 
The Solaris Volume Manager Administration course provides the knowledge and skills to ensure proper planning, implementation, administration and support of the Solaris Volume Manager (SVM) software.

Prerequisite: The student should have taken a Solaris administration course or have equivalent experience administering a Sun Solaris system. The student should also be knowledgeable of system run levels and editing system configuration files.

Recommendation Statement:
This course provides the knowledge and skills to ensure proper planning, implementation, administration and support of the Solaris Volume Manager (SVM) software. The operating system will be Solaris 10 (SunOS 5.10) - Sun's implementation of SystemV release 4. The course is taught on a Sun server. The objective is to prepare the student for administering a SVM on a Solaris system.

By the end of the course, you will be able to...

• 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

Topics discussed include:

• Introduction to Data Management
• Introduction to the Solaris Volume Manager Software
• Administer the State Database
• Administer Concatenated and Striped Volumes
• Administer Mirrored Volumes and Hot Spares
• Administer RAID-5 Volumes
• Perform Advanced SVM Operations

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