Course number HB505S

Delivery method
Remotely assisted instructional learning (RAIL)
Onsite dedicated training (OST)

Special notes
This course replaces the previous H7085S course.

Prerequisites

• HP-UX System and Network Administration I & II (H3064S & H3065S) or
• Equivalent HP-UX administration experience

Audience
HPUX system administrators, systems engineers, and technical support representatives responsible for systems that use the VERITAS Volume Manager.

Course objectives
At the conclusion of this course you should be able to:

• Install the VxVM software
• Manage DMP and nMP multipathed LUNs
• View your VxVM configuration
• Configure, extend, reduce, deport, import, and destroy disk groups
• Configure, extend, reduce, move, and destroy volumes
• Manage mirrored volumes
• Manage striped and RAID5 volumes
• Manage layered volumes
• Manage VxVM boot disks
• Convert LVM volume groups to VxVM disk groups
• Replace and recover failed disks, volumes, and plexes

Benefits to you
Gain the skills you need to install, configure and effectively maintain VERITAS Volume Manager on your HP-UX system

Next steps
HP Serviceguard I (H6487S), HP-UX Performance and Tuning (H4262S), HP-UX Troubleshooting (H4264S), HP-UX Security I (H3541S)

Course outline
VxVM overview

• Volume management overview
• VxVM feature overview
• VxVM and LVM comparison
• VxVM and LVM coexistence
• VxVM resources

VxVM concepts

• Disk group concepts
• Volume concepts
• Plex concepts
• Disk media concepts
• Subdisk concepts
• Simple volume layouts
• Concatenated volume layouts
• Striped volume layouts
• RAID5 volume layouts
• Mirrored volume layouts
• Object database concepts
• Storing objects on physical disks
• Importing objects and disk groups
• Accessing volumes via the object database
• Managing objects via vxconfigd
• VxVM/LVM conceptual comparison
• VxVM/LVM command comparison

Installing and enabling VxVM

• VxVM hardware and software requirements
• VxVM versions
• VxVM software bundles
• Installing, listing, and verifying VxVM
• Installing and enabling VxVM via Ignite-UX
• Enabling VxVM via vxinstall
• Modifying the PATH variable for VxVM
• Verifying VxVM daemons
• Managing the vxsvc daemon
• Launching the vea GUI client
• Securing the vea GUI client

Creating, extending, reducing, and removing disk groups

• Viewing the disk configuration
• Viewing the disk group configuration
• Initializing a disk group
• Adding a disk to a disk group
• Removing a disk from a disk group
• Destroying a disk group
• Destroying a disk
• Upgrading a disk group

Creating, extending, reducing, and removing volumes

• Creating a volume
• Selecting disks
• Selecting a layout
• Creating a file system volume
• Creating a swap volume
• Creating a dump volume
• Viewing volumes
• Resizing volumes
• Resizing file system volumes
• Resizing swap and dump volumes
• Removing a volume

Managing mirrored volumes

• Mirroring advantages
• DRL log plex advantages
• Creating, adding, and removing mirrors
• Creating, adding, and removing DRLs
• Configuring the volume read policy
• Specifying a mirrored volume's plex locations
• Monitoring and managing mirroring tasks
• Configuring mirroring defaults

Managing striped and RAID5 volumes

• Striping advantages
• RAID5 advantages
• RAID5 log plex advantages
• Creating striped volumes
• Creating RAID5 volumes
• Adding and removing RAID5 log plexes
• Changing stripe and RAID5 attributes
• Changing stripe and RAID5 layouts
• Monitor and manage relayout tasks

Managing layered volumes (Self Study)

• mirror-concat volume concepts
• mirror-stripe volume concepts
• concat-mirror volume concepts
• stripe-mirror volume concepts
• Recovering non-layered volumes after a disk crash
• Recovering layered volumes after a disk crash
• Creating layered and non-layered volumes
• Converting between layered and non-layered volumes

Moving and renaming disks, disk groups, and other objects

• Renaming disks, subdisks, volumes, and plexes
• Moving subdisks within a disk group
• Moving plexes within a disk group
• Moving disks between disk groups
• Moving disk groups between hosts
• Renaming disk groups
• Importing disk groups in a Serviceguard cluster

Replacing and recovering failed disks and volumes

• Best practices to avoid data loss
• Hot relocation concepts
• Configuring spare and nohotuse disks
• Unrelocating relocated subdisks after disk replacement
• Assigning a new spare disk after disk replacement
• Recognizing failed disks via syslog and EMS
• Recognizing failed disks via vxdisk
• Recognizing failed disks via vxprint
• Verifying disks via diskinfo and dd
• Reattaching a disk after transient disk failure
• Replacing a failed disk, when at least one disk in the disk group survives
• Replacing a failed disk, when no disks in a disk group survive
• Recovering mirrored volumes with surviving plexes
• Recovering mirrored volumes without surviving plexes

Converting LVM disks into VxVM disks

• LVM to VxVM migration paths
• LVM to VxVM migration limitations
• Converting unused physical volumes into VxVM disks
• Converting LVM volume groups into VxVM disk groups
• Unconverting converted disk groups

Managing VxVM boot disks

• PA-RISC VxVM boot disk structure
• Integrity VxVM boot disk structure
• Cold installing a VxVM boot disk
• Copying an LVM boot disk to a VxVM boot disk
• Destroying an LVM boot disk
• Mirroring a VxVM boot disk
• Verifying a VxVM boot disk
• Backing up a VxVM boot disk
• Replacing a failed VxVM boot disk mirror
• Removing a VxVM boot disk mirror
• Restoring an LVM boot disk

VxVM Considerations for Disk Arrays

• Arrays and LUNs
• Array concepts
• LUN concepts
• RAID concepts
• RAID 0, RAID 1, and RAID 1+0 concepts
• RAID 3, RAID 5, and RAID 5DP concepts
• RAID levels and VxVM
• Configuring a LUN as a VxVM disk
• Extending a LUN

SANs and Enclosures

• SAN concepts
• Enclosure concepts
• Enclosure-based name concepts
• Enabling enclosure-based names
• Viewing enclosure-based names
• Customizing enclosure-based names
• Using enclosure-based names

VxVM DMP

• Active/passive DMP concepts
• Active/Active DMP concepts
• DDL and DMP node concepts
• ASL concepts
• Installing and viewing ASLs
• Activating and deactivating
• ASLs Initiating DMP path discovery
• Viewing DMP paths
• Disabling DMP paths
• Choosing paths on A/A arrays
• Monitoring DMP activity

HP-UX nMP

• HP-UX 11i v3 mass storage stack concepts
• HP-UX 11i v3 DSF concepts
• Enabling VxVM disk device names
• Reverting back to cxtxdx VxVM device names
• HP-UX 11i v3 nMP concepts
• Enabling HP-UX nMP
• Reverting back to VxVM DMP

HP-UX disk and SAN addressing (self study appendix)

• Legacy vs. Agile View hardware addresses
• Legacy parallel SCSI hardware addresses
• Legacy FC hardware addresses
• Legacy DSF names
• Viewing legacy hardware addresses and DSFs
• Agile View SCSI hardware addresses
• Agile View FC lunpath hardware addresses
• Agile View FC LUN hardware addresses
• Agile View persistent DSFs
• Viewing Agile View hardware addresses and DSFs
• Viewing an HBA's lunpaths via Agile View
• Viewing a LUN’s lunpaths via Agile View
• Viewing a LUN’s WWID and LUN ID via Agile View
• Viewing a LUN’s WWID and lunpaths via Agile View
• Selecting a path load balancing policy
• Monitoring HBA, LUN, and lunpath usage
• Monitoring HB, LUN, and lunpath health
• Enabling and disabling LUNs and lunpaths

LVM / VxVM command comparison (self study appendix)

• Upis u radnu knjižicu: ne
• Certifikat: ne
• Uvjerenje: ne
• In-house: ne
• Svjedodžba: ne
• Diploma: ne