A Complete Guide on Linux LVM

Course Description

Introduction - The Logical Volume Manager

• Features of LVM 

• LVM Architecture Overview

LVM Components

• Physical Volumes

• Volume Groups

• LVM Logical Volumes

LVM Logical Volumes

• Different types of Logical Volumes

• Linear Logical Volumes

• Striped Logical Volumes

• LV Creation Options

• Practice Lab Sessions

Physical Volume Administration

• Creating physical volumes

• Scanning for Block Devices

• Displaying Physical Volumes

• Preventing Allocation on a Physical Volume

• Resizing a Physical Volume

• Removing Physical Volume

Volume Group Administration

• Creating Volume Groups

• Adding Physical Volumes to a Volume Group

• Displaying Volumes Groups

• Scanning Disks for Volume Groups

• Removing Physical Volumes from a Volume Group

• Activating & Deactivation Volume Groups

• Changing the Parameters of a Volume Group

• Removing Volume Groups

• Splitting a Volume Group

• Combining Volume Groups

• Backing up Volume Group Metadata

• Renaming a Volume Group

• Moving or migrating a Volume Group to Another System

• Creating a Mirrored Volumes

Thinly-Provisioned Logical Volumes

• What is Thin Provisioning?

• How it Works? and How we provide storage to new Clients?

• Setup Thin Pool and Volumes

• Creating a Thin Pool

• Creating Thin Volumes

• Creating File System

• Over Provisioning

LVM Snapshot

• Snapshot of Logical Volume and Restore

• Creating LVM Snapshot

• Restoring Snapshot or Merging

• Practice Lab Sessions

Recovering metadata of physical volumes

• Recover a faulty disk

• Practice Lab Session

LVM Volume Attributes

• Physical volume(PV) attributes

• Volume Group(VG) Attributes