AIX 5L Disk Storage Management and Recovery Procedures
| Code SA91 |
| 1 Day – Hands on |
| 35,000 PKR |
| AIX 5L Version 5.3 |
| Karachi |
| To Be Assigned |
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.
This course is targeted for system administrators with at least six months experience in AIX and with other relevant education.
Participants should be experienced System Administrators and should have previously attended IBM AU14 with sufficient understanding of using AIX Logical Volume Manager.
On successful completion of this course, students should be able to
| Disk Management Theory |
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Disk Management Procedures |
- 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
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- 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
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