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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 hands-on labs offered in this course may involve accessing equipment that resides at a location other than where the training is delivered.
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
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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
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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)
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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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