Students who can benefit from this course are:

• Post-sales channel resellers
• Value added retail (VAR) field service engineers (FEs)
• Customer FEs and end users

• Create and edit files using the vi or emacs utilities
• Use the Common Desktop Environment (CDE)
• Use the Solaris 9 Operating System (OS) device naming conventions
• Add and remove software packages
• Add peripheral devices
• Administer disks and file systems
• Back up and restore file systems
• Use regular expressions
• Install, configure, and maintain the Solaris 9 OS
• Configure the Solaris 9 OS network file system (NFS) environments
• Change system run levels
• Perform basic recovery procedures

• Install and configure Sun StorEdge SAM-FS software
• Customize archiving, releasing, staging, and recycling behavior
• Use command-line programs to administer Sun StorEdge SAM-FS software installations
• Use the Sun StorEdge SAM-FS software to prepare for disaster recovery
• Describe performance and reliability improvement techniques

Module 1 - Sun StorEdge SAM-FS Product Introduction

• Describe the Sun StorEdge SAM-FS software distribution
• Describe the Sun StorEdge SAM-FS installation process
• Describe the Sun StorEdge SAM-FS primary functions

Module 2 - Installing and Initializing the Sun StorEdge SAM-FS Software

• Install Sun StorEdge SAM-FS software
• License Sun StorEdge SAM-FS software
• Enable Sun StorEdge SAM-FS error logging
• Describe the master configuration (mcf) file organization
• Describe the mcf file data field rules
• Create an mcf file
• Configure the samfs.cmd file
• Update the /etc/vfstab file
• Initialize Sun StorEdge SAM-FS file systems

Module 3 - Archive Planning

• Describe archive set concepts and features
• Describe the archive planning process
• Describe archive process features

Module 4 - Configuring the Archiver

• 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 sls and sfind commands to interrogate file systems

Module 5 - Configuring the Recycler and Releaser

• Describe releasing, staging, and recycling configuration options
• Describe the releasing process
• Use mount command release options
• Configure archiver.cmd file release directives
• Configure releaser.cmd file release directives
• Use the release command options
• Use the sam-releaser command options
• Customize staging behavior
• Describe the recycling process
• Customize the recycling process
• Describe recycling administration duties

Module 6 - Configuring a Sun StorEdge QFS File System

• Describe Sun StorEdge QFS file system configurations
• Describe Sun StorEdge QFS software performance components
• Size disk allocation units (DAUs) for performance
• Optimize metadata performance and availability
• Configure a multiple-reader file system

Module 7 - Configuring Sun StorEdge QFS Shared File Systems

• Describe Sun StorEdge QFS shared file system features
• Describe shared file system administration operations
• Configure a Sun StorEdge QFS shared file system

Module 8 - Data Recovery

• Describe data protection guidelines
• Describe metadata backup guidelines
• Dump metadata using the samfsdump command
• Restore files using the samfsrestore command
• Restore files using the restore command
• Migrate file systems to new storage