Course Length: Approximately 40 hours
Prerequisites: The student should have a good understanding of OS principles
VMS Concepts discusses various VAX and Alpha hardware components and how they interact. Clusters are introduced, along with the newer symmetric multiprocessor machines.
Networks are covered in detail. The course defines types of networks and their operations. The role of VMS in managing networks between systems, among clusters and between VMS and non-VMS systems is explored.
Once the hardware overview is complete, fundamental concepts are discussed. Virtual addressing, VMS kernel, system services and user services are discussed as system operations.
Another view of the system explores the execution of paging, swapping and process scheduling and how these tasks affect the performance of VMS systems.
VMS, the principles of DECnet, TCP/IP and terminal servers are discussed in more detail.
Next, the VMS user environment is covered. The course discusses logins and the concepts of DCL along with file and device specification, logical names and command procedures. Because of their special importance to VMS, the SHOW and SET commands have their own section. A brief overview of the basic system utilities, including SYSTEM and ACCOUNTING, has been included.
Finally, the underlying disk structure of VMS is covered. Basic I/O services, RMS and queuing are discussed.
Upon completion of this course, the student should be able to:
Note: All computer based training courses are Y2K (Year 2000) compliant.