A Complete Guide on Linux LVM (Udemy.com)
Familiar with LVM Concepts and get hands on experience with various lab sessions
Created by: Shikhar Verma
Last updated December 2018
What you will learn
- Logical Volume Manager Administration
- Features of LVM
- LVM Arctitecture Overview
- LVM COMPONENTS
- Linear Logical Volumes
- Striped Logical Volumes
- Mirrored Volumes
- Physical Volume Administration
- Volume Group Administration
- Scanning Disks for Volume Groups
- Splitting a Volume Group
- Moving or migrating a Volume Group to Another System
- Thinly-Provisioned Logical Volumes
- LVM Snapshot
- Recovering metadata of physical volumes
- LVM Volume Attributes
- Recover a faulty disk
- Restoring Snapshot or Merging
How it compares
Against the other 124 rated Udemy courses in Linux on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.5 out of 5higher than 53% of them
- Reviews97#113 of 125 by number of reviews
- Length3.9 hoursshorter than 73% of them
- Last updatedDecember 2018earlier than 78% of them
Course Description
Course Description
Introduction - The Logical Volume Manager
Features of LVM
LVM Arctitecture 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:
Instructor Details
- 4.5 Rating
97 Reviews
Shikhar Verma
Shikhar Verma – Entrepreneur, Corporate Trainer, and IT Consultant
●Founder & CEO of Techstart – Leads an IT company specializing in designing, developing certified courses, content creation, and managing online/offline IT projects for renowned companies.
●15+ Years of Industry Experience – Worked extensively in the IT sector before establishing his own business, bringing deep expertise in technology and corporate training.
●Passionate About Technology & Education – Dedicated to utilizing his technical skills to drive both organizational success and personal career growth.
●Renowned Udemy Instructor – Simplifies complex technical concepts and delivers them in an engaging and approachable manner.
●Educating Since 2016 – Taught over 100,000 students worldwide across multiple learning platforms.
●Educational Background – Holds a BTech in Electrical and Electronics Engineering.
●Core Expertise:
☆Generative AI, Python, DevOps, Docker, Git, Kubernetes, Linux, Ansible, Shell Scripting
☁️ AWS Cloud (Amazon Web Services), Linux Clustering, GCP
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Reviews
By Oren Rahav on 10/1/2020
Very Good course, well explained, i have a learned alonew things that i didnt knew before and im already was fammiliar with the LVM subject. Highly recommanded for who'm want to expand their knowledge and practice with LVMs. More thing that i think you should add is "Disk Encryptions" as an add-on to the course topic. You can cover this in 3 short lectures
By Thomas Roberts on 4/10/2020
The course was good. I appreciated the labs to really solidify the information I was being taught. The information gained through this course is just what I was looking for to overcome specific issues I see in my current position. The one thing I would have really appreciated is a command cheat sheet that outlines all (or at least the most relevant) switch options. It did feel like their was a bit of jumping around with the commands. I think presenting something like this early in the course and referring back to it would have helped explain the commands better.
By Anoop Mannathukandy on 2/8/2020
It was in-depth learning of Logical Volume manager. Trainer having hands-on expertise in the LVm domain and he provided small tips that were useful.
By Alceu Rodrigues de Freitas Junior on 10/17/2019
I learned a lot, but there is space for improvements, like avoiding repeating the some concepts again and again. Adding challenges/exercises would be great to engage the students.
By Gaurav Santosh Bhalekar on 10/1/2019
This Course Module is very nice regarding LVM. Shikher Sir given conceptual training. it will help me. Thanks Shikher Sir
By Jerome Carrier on 6/9/2019
Instructor was thorough in presenting his information. LOVE the labs. I believe all courses should consider adopting labs. Instructor presents relevant material in helping students learn about LVM. Look forward to taking other courses by this instructor.
By Chris Papas on 3/9/2019
Masterpiece ! I really Needed Help with this complex Subject. Tried other Vendors, but they either went too fast, or jumped around assuming you already knew something, Mr. Verma The Linux Doctor I like him, his courses start from the beginning to the End, with each section carefully explained. Whats Great about This Instructor is he not only explains the material in great Depth, he then demonstrates it to you. Not Many other instructors do that often enough, if they do its slide or very brief video . I will only buy Linux Videos From this Instructor
By Avinash Kumar on 2/19/2019
The course is very good for troubleshooting LVM issues for system admin. It gives you indepth knowledge on LVM troubleshooting.
By Ivan Vokhmin on 1/26/2019
I would like to say thanks to Shikhar Verma for this course. It covered all topics I needed to do part of my job, resize/move LVs on real loaded production servers. Many thanks!
By Mike Austin on 1/18/2019
I have a very good understanding of the LVM used in IBM's AIX Operating System, and simply wanted to contrast Red Hat's version to that of IBM. The Instruction did a great job in explaining the LVM internals and attributes.
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Overall Score : 90 / 100












