HP-UX VERITAS Volume Manager (HB505S)

COURSE OVERVIEW

This hands-on course covers the configuration and administration of Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) for HP-UX. Covering basic procedures to advanced configuration and recovery topics, the course is 50 percent lecture and 50 percent hands-on.

AUDIENCE

• HP-UX system administrators, systems engineers, and technical support representatives responsible for systems that use the Veritas Volume Manager.

PREREQUISITES

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

COURSE OBJECTIVE

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

• Install the VxVM software
• Manage DMP and nMP multipathed LUNs
• 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 (H3541S)

DETAILED 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
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• 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)

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For whom it is intended:

• Presale/consultant
• System administrator
• System engineer