Remotely assisted instructional learning (
RAIL) Instructor-led training (
ILT)
Onsite dedicated training (
OST)
Price
USD $4,000
CAD $4,400
Course overview
This 5-day course provides a comprehensive and
accelerated understanding of SAN technologies
and concepts. Students will gain the experience
needed to tackle the challenges of working in
enterprise class SAN environments.
Prerequisites
Participants will be expected to have the following experience:
Basic technical understanding of networking and
storage, concepts and terminology.
Experience managing Windows or UNIX systems.
Recommended free web-based training: SAN Fundamentals (U5527aae)
Audience
This course is designed for technical professionals
seeking an accelerated learning path that includes both
conceptual knowledge of Fibre Channel SAN
technologies and experience in heterogeneous SAN
environments.
Ways to save
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This practical 5-day course provides comprehensive exposure to SAN solutions and supporting technologies, such as Fibre Channel and IP storage. Participants learn about protocols, standards, management practices and tools, and SAN design and implementation considerations. Class discussions cover a wide range of topics, including the capabilities and limitations of the various supporting technologies and SAN management in enterprise environments. Each lab provides experience with component configuration, SAN management, and other SAN related activities.
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Course outline
Introduction
What is a SAN? / Why a SAN?
Definition of a SAN
HP SAN goals
Fast backup and restore
Business continuance
High availability
Server and Storage consolidation
Efficiency improvements
Centralized management
DAS, NAS and SAN
Direct Attached Storage (DAS)
Network Attached Storage (NAS)
Storage area Network (SAN)
SAN considerations
Comparing SAN and NAS
DAS versus NAS versus SAN
Comparison by purpose
SAN components
Host, target and interconnect device
characteristics
Power-on sequence
Fibre Channel - Basics
Why not SCSI?
SAS vs. parallel SCSI
World Wide Name (WWN)
Fibre Channel WWN
Nodes, Ports and Links
SAN Topologies
Point-to-point topology
Arbitrated loop topology
Arbitrated loop hubs
Private and public loop
Switched fabric topology
Topology comparison
Fibre Channel port types
Fibre Channel architecture - Functional levels
FC-0 - Physical level
Transceivers
Fibre Channel cabling
Multi and single-mode fiber
Single-mode step-index fiber
Attenuation
Dispersion
Cable bends and damage
FC-1 Coding layer and encoding process
FC-2 - Signaling Protocol level
Fibre Channel terminology
Frame structure and header
Cisco EISL header
SCSI (FCP) write operation
Class of service
FC-3 Common Services
FC-4 ULP mappings
Fibre channel switches
Principal switch
Upstream and Downstream links
Frame routing - FSPF
Flow- and Exchange-based routing
ISL bandwidth aggregation
B-series Trunk
C-series portchannel
FSPF and host-based load balancing
Virtual fabrics
B-series virtual fabrics
C-series virtual SANs (VSANs)
Switches and Directors
Switch management
SAN hosts
Hosts and Fibre Channel
Virtualization for hosts
HP Integrity Virtual Machines
NPIV - N_Port Virtualization
Server virtualization with NPIV
Brocade Access Gateway
F_Port Trunking
Cisco N_Port Virtualixation
Boot from SAN
Host preparation and install
HBA installation
Windows connectivity – Device Manager
Windows Disk Manager
Local HBA management
Verifying HBA installation hp-ux
HBA interrogation
Agile addressing hp-ux 11i v3
Multiple paths to storage
Multi-path concepts
Automatic path failover
Load balancing
Microsoft Multi-Path I/O (MPIO)
Microsoft storage stack
MPIO driver modules
DSM utilities
Disk targets
Disk Drives
Standard disk driver interfaces
Parallel ATA/IDE and SCSI
SATA (Serial ATA)
SAS (Serial Attached SCSI)
SAS device limitations
SCSI-3 command set and encapsulation
RAID - Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks
Disk enclosures
Disk drive connections
LUN masking
Storage Virtualization
Fabric Based virtualization
Thin and Fat provisioning
HP StorageWorks arrays
Storage Management Utility – MSA 2300,
P2000
Command View EVA
Command View XP AE
Fibre Channel advanced
Fibre Channel addressing
FC-AL Loop IDs and AL-Pas
Addressing public NL_Ports
Loop ID to ALPA conversion
Ordered sets and primitives
Primitive signals and sequences
Flow control
FCP write I/O class 2
Link services
Fabric login
N_Port login sequence
Well known addresses
Fabric services
Name Server detail
Registered State Change Notification
Fabric zoning and zone members
Zone enforcement
Zoning granularity
Traffic Isolation Zones
QoS Zones
Fabric segmentation
SAN design
SAN architecture choices and considerations
Planning process
Defining the infrastructure requirements
Approaches to simplified design
HP Standard SAN topologies
Design using HP SAN topologies
Cascaded Fabric
Ring, meshed and core-edge Fabrics
Initial cost of deployment
Data locality
Topology data access usage
SAN infrastructure performance factors
Level 1: Single connectivity fabric
Level 2: Single resilient fabric
Level 3: Single resilient fabric with multiple
device paths
Level 4: Multiple fabrics and device paths
HP StorageWorks SAN Design Reference
Guide
B-Series, C-Series and M-Series port topology
maximums
Review - Solution design and complexities
iSCSI
IP storage
iSCSI Stack
iSCSI encapsulation
iSCSI Packet
iSCSI Host Driver
iSCSI initiators
iSCSI Name Support
iSCSI Name Structure
iSCSI name examples
iSNS
State Change Notification
iSCSI target discovery
iSCSI operations
iSCSI authentication
iSCSI CHAP
IP Security
HP StorageWorks iSCSI SAN
HP StorageWorks iSCSI SAN Recommended
architecture
Centralized Management Console (CMC
CMC Navigation
SAN extension
What is a SAN extension?
Why extend the SAN?
HP Supported SAN extension technologies
SAN Extension - distance summary
Long Wave Transceivers
Dense and coarse Wave Division
Multiplexing
Fibre Channel over IP (FCIP)
FCIP Encapsulation and Virtual Channels
FCIP Jumbo Packets
FCIP performance
Brocade Fastwrite
Brocade FCIP Fastwrite + Tape pipelining
Cisco Write Acceleration
FCIP compression
IP network considerations and best practices
FCIP security - encryption and advantages
FCIP hardware
Fibre Channel routing overview
Fabric, Virtual Fabric and VSAN independence
SAN scaling
Fabric services limits
Fibre Channel routing implementations
B-Series and C-Series routing differences
Routing through an IP network
FCoE Fibre Channel over Ethernet
FCoE (Fibre Channel over Ethernet)
CEE (Converged Enhanced Ethernet
FcoE Terminology
OSI, FCoE and FC stacks
FCoE encapsulation
Frame Format
Lossless Ethernet
HP Converged network switches offerings
Converged Network Adapters (CANs)
FCoE initialization Protocol
FIP Login / FIP Logout
Standard CEE integrations
SAN Integration
CEE and LAN integration
CEE Map
DCBX (Data Center Bridging eXchange
Protocol)
Spanning Tree
Minimum CEE configuration to allow FCoE
traffic flow
FCIP, ISCSI & FCoE
Storage Support
Operating System Support
SAN management
Storage management tasks
Why storage management?
Storage Resource Management
HP Information Lifecycle Management (ILM)
Information Lifecycle Management
SAN management concepts
HP SAN Management strategy
SAN performance management
Storage capacity management
SMI-S
Storage Essentials
Enterprise Edition plug-ins
Description of Base Components
System Manager
Capacity Manager
Performance Manager
Application Viewer
Policy Manager
Event Manager
Database Viewer
Exchange Viewer
File System Viewer
Backup Manager
HP StorageWorks Fabric Manager
HP Data Center Fabric Manager (DCFM)
Cisco Fabric Manager
Security
Security in a SAN
Attacks and Exposures
Mitigation of risk
Authorization
Audits
Encryption
Role Based security
RADIUS
Planning SAN Security prevention
Response to attacks
Security in practice
FCIP encryption and Data encryption at rest
Data Protection
Challenges in Data Protection
Recovery Operations
Protection and Recovery methods
Data Protection Technologies
Direct backup - tape
Centralized server backup
Automated centralized backup
Centralized SAN backup
Tape Libraries
Zoning for backup
Backup performance considerations
Virtual Tape Libraries
Disk to Tape
Data replication
Split-mirror backup concept
Snapshot backup concept
De-duplication
How Accelerated De-duplication Works
How Hash Based Chunking Works
How Hash Based Chunking Performs restores
Disk to Dsik and virtual library portfolio with
duplication
Remote replication
HP StorageWorks Continuous Access EVA
(CA EVA)
Synchronous and Asynchronous replication
Comparing replication modes
HP OpenView Storage Mirroring
OVSM mirroring - full and file difference
SAN Performance
SAN performance objectives
Performance factors
Performance terms
Drive speed
Response time
Bus utilization
Device utilization
Improving performance
Reducing service time
SAN performance Considerations
Latencies
ISL oversubscription
Bandwidth consumption and congestion
Hop latency
Data Priority – Quality of Service
Device attachment points
Distance considerations
Maintaining performance in an extended
SAN beyond 5 or 10km
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