HP-UX VERITAS Volume Manager (HB505S)
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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- Presale/consultant
- System administrator
- System engineer
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