HP LeftHand P4000 SANs Basic Training

Course overview

This 1-day course covers the basic information required to understand, manage, and configure your HP LeftHand P4000 SAN. This training covers topics such as HP SAN/iQ® Software features and functionality, configuration, and the iSCSI protocol. Also included are discussions on management groups, volumes, and snapshots. This course is 70% lecture and 30% lab.

Audience

• Storage administrators

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Course objectives

• Install, configure, and verify a HP SAN/iQ solution
• Create an iSCSI SAN
• Understand and use sophisticated HP SAN/iQ storage management tools

Next steps

• HP LeftHand P4000 SANs Advanced Training

Course outline

• Introducing HP LeftHand SANs
• HP SAN/iQ Software
• Centralized Management Console (CMC)
• iSCSI client driver for windows
• Standard best practices architecture overview

• Installation overview, procedure
• Centralized Management Console
• Management Console
• Centralized Management Console (CMC) Use Summary
• Edit configuration
• Centralized Management Console: items and states
• Hierarchical structure
• Using tab view!

• RAID setup
• Monitoring disk status
• Managing the network
• Networking enhancements
• Network interface failover
• Adaptive Load Balancing (ALB)
• TCP status
• Jumbo frames
• Using DNS server
• Routing
• Communications mode
• Using SNMP
• Using the SAN/iQ SNMP MIB
• Enabling the SNMP agent
• Log files
• Active monitoring
• Using active monitoring
• Active monitoring of disks
• Removing monitored variables
• Hardware report
• Save to file
• Copy configuration
• Email notification
• Diagnostics
• Alerts

• Management group and cluster overview
• Creating a management group
• Management group admin users and groups
• Creating a management group
• What’s a manager?
• Running managers
• Manager quiz
• Starting and stopping managers
• Editing a management group bandwidth
• Other configuration considerations
• Soft shutdown
• Deleting a management group
• Working with management group: summary
• Clusters
• Cluster overview
• Cluster prerequisites
• Creating a cluster
• Cluster virtual IP address
• Editing a cluster
• Adding a node to an existing cluster
• Mixing RAID configurations
• Mixed Cluster of SAN/iQ Software
• Mixed Cluster SAN/iQ Software Guidelines
• Deleting a cluster
• Cluster: summary

• Volume overview
• Volume creation and parameters
• How replication works
• P4000 SAN Network RAID
• Replication priority
• Key points
• Replication
• Types of volume
• Planning volume size
• Editing a volume
• Editing a volume -- considerations
• Creating servers
• Assigning volumes to Servers
• Deleting a volume

• What is iSCSI?
• iSCSI communication in P4000 SAN
• LeftHand iSCSI Virtual IP Load Balancing (VIPLB)
• SAN/iQ MPIO
• Initiator installation
• Target portal setup
• Connecting the volume
• Writing disk signatures
• Create partition: example
• Format partition: example
• Added iSCSI basic disk
• iSCSI volume identification

• SAN/iQ DSM for enhanced functionality MPIO
• HP LeftHand DSM for MPIO
• Installing Microsoft MPIO
• Checking for Microsoft MPIO
• Configure volumes for failover
• Verify NIC configurations

• Snapshot Overview
• HP LeftHand P4000 Snapshots
• Snapshot Layered Architecture
• How a Snapshot Works
• Snapshot Layered Architecture – Block Level
• How SAN/iQ reads a Snapshot Volume
• Using a snapshot
• Writing to a snapshot
• Data mining or backup planning
• Deleting a snapshot
• Sizing a snapshot
• Creating a snapshot-Options
• Editing a snapshot-Options
• Single vs. scheduled snapshots
• Scheduling snapshots
• Scheduling snapshot considerations
• Rolling back a volume
• How a rollback works
• Rolling back a snapshot
• Mounting snapshots of basic disks
• Scripting snapshots
• Scripting samples