HP LeftHand P4000 SANs Advanced Training

Course overview

This 1-day course covers covers best practices for HP LeftHand P4000 SAN - based on field experiences and applied industry knowledge. This training covers topics such as SmartClone volumes, Remote Copy, SAN volume size manipulation, disk partition offsets, Windows performance monitoring, and persistent logons and volume binding. Additional topics include VMware use with HP SAN/iQ, HR/DR Solution Pack and ISCI SAN for applications. This course is 50% lecture and 50% lab.

Prerequisites

• HP LeftHand P4000 SAN Basic Training course
• Advanced knowledge of Windows Servers
• Basic networking

Audience

• Storage administrators

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Course objectives

• Install, configure, use, and verify HP SAN/iQ software

Course outline

• Introducing SmartClone volumes
• Deleting SmartClone volumes

• SAN/iQ Remote Copy overview
• Understand snapshot technology
• Remote copy process
• SAN/iQ PrimeSync features
• Planning for remote copy
• Remote bandwidth setting
• Designating or creating remote volumes
• Viewing remote snapshot statistics
• Planning, creating, editing, and deleting remote snapshot schedules
• Scripting remote snapshots

• General definitions and shrinking reasons
• How to shrink a volume on SAN
• Shrink volume on SAN with Paragon Partition Manager
• Shrink volume size on a SAN
• Growing a volume in SAN/iQ

• Align partition with diskpar.exe for Windows 2000 or 2003, non SP-1
• Align partition with diskpart for Windows 2003 SP1 & R2

• First Step – setting & verification of service dependency
• Setting service dependency with Microsoft service control utility
• Setting service dependency with Microsoft registry Verifying dependency settings
• Verifying dependency settings

• Configuration of persistent logons to target with iSCSI Initiator Management Applet
• Configuration with iSCSI cmd interface & verification of persistent logons to target
• Binding volumes with Microsoft iSCSI Initiator

• Set MaxRequestHoldTime

• HP Lefthand + VMware advantages
• HP SAN/iQ clustering for high availability
• New levels of high availability
• Configuring VMware for use with iSCSI
• Initial iSCSI setup of ESX server
• ESX networking for software initiator: VMkernel
• Enabling the iSCSI software adapter in ESX
• ESX HBA connectivity and networking
• SAN/iQ - connecting and using iSCSI volumes
• ESX discovery of iSCSI volumes
• Creating a new ESX datastore on the iSCSI volume
• Expanding a SAN/iQ volume and extending the ESX datastore on the iSCSI volume/LUN
• Snapshots and Remote Copy in P4000 SAN
• Resignaturing P4000 SAN Snaphots
• VMotion, Clustering, HA, and DRS
• Choosing data stores and volumes for virtual machines
• How many virtual machines should be on a volume or datastore?

• Monitoring performance overview
• Description of monitoring table columns
• Understanding performance statistics
• Changing sample interval and time zone
• Changing sample interval from the toolbar
• Changing sample interval and time zone using Edit Monitoring Window
• Adding statistics
• Viewing statistic details
• Exporting data
• Export statistics log
• Saving the graph to an image file
• Monitoring and comparing multiple clusters

• What is HP SAN/iQ Multi-Site HA/DR Solution Pack?
• Example use profiles
• Comparison of Multi-Site SAN vs. Campus SAN
• Geographic/site awareness
• Automatic data center mirroring
• Multi-subnet iSCSI clusters
• Network RAID-ADP
• Automatic site failover and failback
• SAN/iQ Failover Manager
• Preferred configurations
• Other SAN/iQ multi-site features
• Security: multi-network domain clusters
• Common multi-site SAN configurations with recommended managers
• Adding or removing modules in a multi-site SAN

• Performance factors
• Replication level
• Drive buffering
• Disk alignment
• SAN/iQ performance monitor

• Inserting a new disk
• Replacing a disk drive
• Power supplies

• MS Exchange setup
• MS SQL setup