• Managing components in the VxVM architecture
• Volume Manager storage objects
• Volume layouts
• Viewing object attributes

Labs

• Exercise A: Creating a disk group containing non-cds disks
• Exercise B: Converting non-cds disks in a disk group to the CDS disk format
• Exercise C: Creating volumes with different layouts
• Exercise D: Creating layered volumes
• Exercise E: Creating volumes with user defaults

• Disk group information
• Disk group split, move, and join
• Disk group backup/restore Advanced Volume Operations
• Using vxmaketo create volume manager objects
• Changing the volume layout
• Online relayout process
• Managing volume tasks
• Securing data at rest

Labs

• Exercise A: Preparing for disk group split/move/join operations
• Exercise B: Performing vxdg split and join operations specifying volume objects
• Exercise C: Performing vxdg split and join operations specifying disk objects
• Exercise D: Performing vxdg join operations when conflicting objects exist
• Exercise E: Performing vxdg move operations
• Exercise F: Performing configuration backups

• VxFS layout versions
• Components and attributes of Veritas FileSystem

Labs

• Exercise A: Viewing the file system metadata

• Compressing files and directories with VxFS
• Using the FileSnap feature
• Deduplicating VxFS data
• Migrating a native file system to VxFS

Labs

• Exercise A: Compressing files and directories with VxFS
• Exercise B: Deduplicating VxFS data
• Exercise C: Using the FileSnap feature
• Exercise D: Migrating a native file system to VxFS

• DMP/DDL overview
• Event Source Daemon
• ASL/APM administration
• DDL/DMP CLI administration

Labs

• Exercise A: Perform DMP testing using the vxdmpadm command
• Exercise B: Perform DMP testing using the vxcheckasl command
• Exercise C: Perform DMP testing using the vxdisk command
• Exercise D: Perform DMP testing using the vxddladm command

• Subpath failover groups
• Array/enclosure management
• Online dynamic LUN reconfiguration
• DDL/DMP enhancements

Labs

• Exercise A: Listing Subpath Failover Groups (SFG)
• Exercise B: Tuning the Low Impact Path Probing (LIPP) attributes
• Exercise C: Differentiating manually disabled paths

• Creating and managing volume sets
• Creating and managing multi-volume file systems
• Volume device visibility
• Administering raw device access

Labs

• Exercise A: Configuring a volume set with a multivolume file system
• Exercise B: Configuring device visibility

• Introducing SmartTier
• Defining the SmartTier concepts
• Creating storage tiers
• Implementing file placement policies

Labs

• Exercise A: Configuring a multi-volume file system and SmartTier
• Exercise B: Testing SmartTier

• Understanding snapshot technologies
• Identifying hardware snapshots using VolumeManager
• Managing clone disks
• Using disk tags

Labs

• Exercise A: LUN snapshots setup
• Exercise B: Importing clone disk groups

• Creating and managing full-copy volume snapshots
• Using volume snapshots for off-host processing

Labs

• Exercise A: Full-sized instant snapshots
• Exercise B: Off-host processing using split-mirror volume snapshots
• Exercise C: Traditional volume snapshots

• Creating and managing space-optimized volume snapshots
• Creating and managing storage checkpoints
• Serving business requirements

Labs

• Exercise A: Using space-optimized instant volume snapshots
• Exercise B: Restoring a file system using storage checkpoints
• Exercise C: Examining storage checkpoint behavior

• Performance benchmarking tools
• Ensuring quality of service

Labs

• Exercise A: Using vxbench and vxstat
• Exercise B: Tracing I/O
• Exercise C: Maintaining quality of service

• Understanding the environment
• VxVM tunables and volume best practices
• VxFS tunables, inode cache and cache advisories
• DMP tunables

Labs

• Exercise A: Benchmarking
• Exercise B: Isolating performance issues

• Introducing remote mirroring and site awareness
• Configuring site awareness
• Recovering from failures with remote mirrors
• Verifying a site-aware environment

Labs

• Exercise A: Configuring site awareness
• Exercise B: Analyzing the volume read policy
• Exercise C: Analyzing the impact of disk failure in a siteconsistent environment
• Exercise D: A manual fire drill operation with remote mirroring

• Docker overview
• Introducing support for Docker deployments
• Provisioning storage to Docker containers
• Additional features and limitations

Labs

• Exercise A: Preparing the Docker environment
• Exercise B: Creating volumes for use with Docker containers
• Exercise C: Moving Docker containers