The Sun Storage Archive Manager and Sun QFS 5.0 Administration course offers students the opportunity to learn how to use the SAM-QFS product to create file systems and archive file system data. The course includes instructor-led sessions, intermixed with hands-on exercises in a classroom environment. Students will learn the following:
The main features of Sun Storage Archive Manager and Sun QFS products
How to configure and manage archiving
How to configure and manage shared and non-shared file systems
How to recover lost file systems
How to install and initialize Sun SAM and Sun QFS software (optional)
This course replaces:
NWS-4510, Revision A, Sun StorageTek SAM-FS and QFS Version 4 Update 4 Administration
Sun StorEdge SAM-FS and Sun StorEdge QFS 4 Update 5 Software Differences Document (WS-NWS-0045)
Sun StorageTek Storage Archive Manager and Sun StorageTekQFS 4 Update 6 Software Differences Document (WS-NWS-0046)
The number of students may be adjusted after the course has been added to the cart.
Delivery Format
ILT
Who Can Benefit
Students who can benefit from this course are system administrators in a Solaris The Internet Operating Environment who are tasked with proper implementation and support of Sun Storage Archive Manager (SAM) and Sun QFS File System software release 5.0. These students include:
Customer storage system administrators
System support engineers (SSEs)
Customer care center (CCC) engineers
Sun partners
Prerequisites
To succeed fully in this course, students should be able to perform basic Solaris system administration functions, including the following tasks: - Create and edit files using the vi or emacs utilities
- Use the Common Desktop Environment (CDE)
- Use the Solaris 10 Operating System (OS) device naming conventions
- Add and remove software packages
- Add peripheral devices
- Administer disks and file systems
- Backup and restore file systems
- Use regular expressions
- Install, configure, and maintain the Solaris 10 OS
- Configure the Solaris 10 OS network file system (NFS)environments
- Change system run levels
- Perform basic recovery and troubleshooting procedures
Skills Gained
Upon completion of this course, students should be able to: - Describe the main features of Sun SAM and Sun QFS products
- Customize archiving, releasing, staging, and recycling behavior
- Configure shared and non-shared file systems
- Implement data protection and recovery procedures
- Use command-line programs to administer SAM-QFS installations
- Use the SAM-QFS Manager to administer SAM-QFS installations
- Install and configure Sun SAM and Sun QFS software (optional)
Course Content
Module 1 - Introduction to Sun Storage Archive Manager and Sun QFS
- List the main features of the Sun Storage Archive Manager product.
- List the main features of the Sun QFS file system.
- Describe the main components of the Sun SAM and Sun QFS software distributions.
- Describe the high-level steps in the Sun SAM installation process (details in Module 8).
- Describe the Sun SAM .inodes file.
Module 2 - Configuring the Archiver
- Describe archive set concepts and features
- Describe the archive planning process
- Describe archive process features
- Describe archive file status flags and attributes
- Describe archive request queue status
- Describe the archiving process control
- Describe archive cycle events including scanning, composing, scheduling, and archiving
- Describe the archiver.cmd file structure
- Configure archiver.cmd file directives
- Use the sfind command to interrogate file systems
Module 3 - Configuring the Releaser and Stager
- Describe releasing, staging, and recycling planning
- Describe the releasing process
- Customize releasing behavior using the CLI
- Describe the staging process
- Customize staging behavior using the CLI
Module 4 - Configuring the Recycler
- Describe the recycling process
- Recognize default recycler behavior
- Identify the differences between archiver-based recycling and library-based recycling
- Understand the basic details of the recycler.log
- Customize recycling behavior using the CLI
Module 5 - Configuring Sun QFS File Systems
- Describe Sun QFS file system configurations
- Describe Sun QFS software performance components
- Size Disk Allocation Units (DAUs) for performance
- Optimize metadata performance and availability
- Describe Sun QFS shared file system features
- Describe shared file system administration operations
- Configure a Sun QFS shared file system using the CLI
Module 6 - Daily Monitoring and Management
- Use the archiver command
- Use the sls command
- Use the showqueue command
- Use the release command
- Use the stage command
- Use the undamage command
- Use the rearch command
- Use the samu, samcmd, and samadm commands
- Use the SAM-QFS Manager
Module 7 - Data Protection and Recovery
- Describe data protection guidelines
- Describe metadata backup guidelines
- Perform metadata dumps using the CLI
- Automate metadata backups using SAM-QFS Manager
- Restore files using the samfsrestore command
- Restore files using SAM-QFS Manager
- Restore files using the request command
- Migrate file systems to new storage
- Grow file systems
- Perform file system checks
Module 8 - Installing and Initializing Sun SAM Software
- Install Sun SAM software
- Enable Sun SAM error logging and tracing
- Describe the mcf file organization
- Describe the mcf file data field rules
- Create an mcf file
- Configure the samfs.cmd file
- Update the /etc/vfstab file
- Configure the SAM-QFS Manager software
- Initialize Sun SAM file systems using the CLI
- Initialize Sun SAM file system using SAM-QFS Manager
- Add a direct-attached tape library using SAM-QFS Manager
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