| Course Duration |
1 Day – Hands on Workshop |
| Course Fee |
Available upon request (Write to
us at
info@tlcpak.com) |
| Operating System |
AIX 7.1 and AIX 7.2 |
| Course Location |
Customer Onsite |
| Course Code |
TN190 |
| Group Discount |
Discounts are available for a classs
of 5 and 8 students |
| Deliverables |
Comprehensive student guide |
PURPOSE:
This course is specially designed
for AIX System Administrators. Replacing a disk is not an easy task. System
administrators must know the procedures to replace and fix a disk without
corrupting the systems. In essence, disk storage administration is an important
part of an administration that needs sizeable consideration from management
point of view.
AUDIENCE:
This course is targeted for system
administrators with at least six months experience in AIX and with other
relevant education.
PREREQUISITES:
Participants should be experienced
System Administrators and should have previously attended IBM AN100 and
AN120 with sufficient understanding of using AIX Logical Volume Manager.
OBJECTIVES:
At the end of this session, individual
will be able to identify how to replace a disk under different conditions
and able to recover from a total Volume Group failures.
COURSE OUTLINE
Disk Management Theory
• LVM Terms
• Volume Group Limits
• Mirroring Striping
• Mirroring and Striping with RAID
• Basic LVM Tasks
• LVM Data Representation
• LVM Data on Disk Control Blocks
• LVM O/S Data
• Contents of the VGDA
• The Logical Volume Control Block
(LVCB)
• LVM interaction with the ODM and
VGDA
• ODM entries for PVs, VGs and LVs
• ODM-related LVM Problems
• Fixing ODM problems
• Mirroring
• Stale Partitions
• Mirrored LVs
• Mirror Write Consistency
• Mirroring rootvg
• VGDA Count and Quorum |
Disk Management Procedures
• Disk Replacement Techniques
• Replacing a rootvg Disk
• Total Disk Failure
• Volume Group Failure
• Total non-rootvg Failure
• Disk Replacement Failures
• Importing and Exporting a Volume
Group
• Import/Export Issues
• Saving and Restoring Volume Groups
• Creating a System Backup (mksysb)
• Verifying the System Backup
• The mksysb bosinst.data File
• Restoring a mksysb
• Changing the Partition Size in
rootvg
• Reducing a Filesystem in rootvg
• Removing an Alternate Disk Installation
• Saving and Restoring non-rootvg
Volume Groups
• Error Logging Components
• Generating an Error Report
• Types of Disk Errors
• LVM Error Log Entries |
|
List
of IBM AIX Operating System
List
of IBM AIX Operating System
