Symantec Technical Services Engineers; Symantec Partners/OEM Engineers

Upon completion of the course, students will be able to:

• Install the software using the installsf utility
• Upgrade the Storage Foundation software
• Uninstall the software using the uninstallsf utility
• Troubleshoot failed installations, upgrades, and uninstallations
• Describe Dynamic Multipathing (DMP) and Device Discovery Layer (DDL) functionality
• Discuss the DDL performance enhancements
• Discuss the DMP enhancements
• Using the DMP event log
• Describe volume sets
• Administer raw device node access to component volumes
• Discuss the motivation for importing LUN snapshots
• Define unique disk identifier (UDID)
• Use annotation tags (tagid)
• Describe how to import a disk group containing cloned disks
• Discuss motivations and terminology for migrating data
• Use the vxassist command to tentatively move volumes
• Use the vxsd command to tentatively move subdisks
• Use the vxevac command to tentatively move disks
• Review ISP concepts
• Perform link breakoff snapshots of ISP volumes
• Describe ISP usability enhancements
• Migrate ISP volumes
• Use volume tags
• Discuss reverse migration
• Define MVFS availability enhancements
• Administer the new Dynamic Storage Tiering policies
• Identify other enchancements (version 7 layout, 2k volumes in a volume set, Oracle resilvering, FCL
  enhancements, CDS enhancements)

Lesson 1 - Installing, Upgrading, and Uninstalling the Software

• Install Storage Foundation using the installer
• Upgrade the Storage Foundation software
• Install SLIM and demonstrate its usage
• Uninstall the Storage Foundation Software using the uninstallsf utility
• Use log files to isolate failures

Lesson 2 - DMP/DDL Enhancements

• Describe the existing DMP/DDL architecture from an overview perspective
• Explain the DMP/DDL enhancements
• Use the vxdmpadm Utility enhancements
• Set the DMP tunables
• Discuss the miscellaneous enhancements
• Debug DMP 5.0
  

Lesson 3 - Volume Device Visibility

• Describe Volume Sets (VSET) from an overview perspective
• Explain the volume device visibility
• Administer raw device node access to volumes
  

Lesson 4 - Import LUN Snapshots

• Discuss the motivation for importing LUN snapshots
• Describe importing LUN Snapshots enhancements
• Define unique disk identifier (UDID)
• Use annotation tags (tagid)
• Describe the purpose of configuration and klog copies
• Import a disk group containing cloned disks
  

Lesson 5 - Support for Tentative Data Migration

• Discussing an overview of tentative migration
• Using the vxassist command to migrate volumes
• Using the vxsd command to migrate subdisks
• Using the vxevac command to migrate disks
  

Lesson 6 - ISP Enhancements

• Reviewing ISP concepts
• Performing link breakoff snapshots of ISP volumes
• Describing ISP usability enhancements
• Migrating ISP volumes
• Using volume tags
• Discussing reverse migration
  

Lesson 7 - VxFS Filesystem Enhancements

• Defining MVFS availability enhancements
• Administering new Dynamic Storage Tiering policies
• Identifying other VxFS enhancements