HP P4000 SAN Configuration and Administration

Course overview

The P4000 SAN course is a comprehensive technical-based training course that teaches the skills needed for planning, installing, configuring, and managing HP P4000 storage area networks (SANs). Learning concepts are reinforced through a series of comprehensive lab assignments.

Prerequisites

• Basic networking
• Advanced knowledge of Windows Servers

Audience

• Storage Administrators

Course objectives

• Explain the architecture of the P4000 SAN solution
• Plan and install networks of Storage Systems, including multi-site installations providing High Availability / Disaster Recovery
• Configure Storage Systems for initial connection
• Install and use the P4000 Consolidated Management Console (CMC)
• Configure and manage the P4000 SAN
• Mount the SAN Volumes from Windows 2003, Windows 2008 R2, or VMware vSphere 4.1i

Benefits to you

• Students will get comfortable with HP StorageWorks P4000 SAN so that you can go back into your environments and engineer a solution using all the features of P4000 SAN systems and SAN/iQ software
• Participants will be able to understand & implement Best Practices of HP StorageWorks for HP SAN/iQ implementation/administration process in Windows

Detailed course outline

Course Introduction

• Course introduction

Centralized Management Console

• Install the Centralized Management Console
• Understand Management Console user interface
• Use the Content Pane to verify the status of modules
• Recognize how to use the Management Console to: Upgrade software, reboot or shutdown a Storage System, manage RAID or individual drives, manage network configurations; add, edit, delete administrative users/groups, enable monitoring

Basic Configuration

• Install and set IP/hostname
• Verify RAID and disks
• Manage the Networks settings
• Understand how to configure and use SNMP
• Set monitoring parameters and view reports

Management Group and Clusters

• Managers and Management Groups
• How to create, edit, and delete Management Groups
• How to create local administrative groups and users
• Identify the purpose and requirements for a virtual Manager
• Understand the purpose of Managers
• Explain the purpose of Clusters
• How to create, edit, delete, and view Clusters
• Understand the virtual IP address and its use
• Single site vs. Campus SAN or Multi-site Clusters
• Understand other Cluster-related configuration functions

Working with Volumes

• Planning Volumes
• Prerequisites for Volumes
• Volume growth capacity
• Create and view Volumes
• Edit/delete Volumes
• Server Profiles

Connecting the Volume via iSCSI

• Understanding iSCSI
• Installing the initiator
• Creating “Server Profiles”
• Adding the target portal
• Connecting the Volume
• Formatting the drive

HP StorageWorks P4000 SAN & Microsoft MPIO support

• HP Storage DSM for MPIO improves SAN performance
• HP Storage MPIO relies on Microsoft MPIO
• Configure NICs for failover

SAN/iQ Snapshots

• Snapshot Overview
• Snapshot Architecture
• Using a Snapshot
• Creating a Snapshot Single
• Rolling back a Snapshot
• Scripting Snapshot operations

SmartClone Volumes

• HP Storage P4000 SAN/iQ SmartClone
• SmartClone Introduction

Remote Copy

• Snapshot technology
• Basic overview
• Create, edit, delete, view, or cancel a remote copy operation
• Describe uses for the SAN/iQ Remote Copy feature

Using HP SAN/iQ with VMware vSphere

• HP Storage and VMware advantages

HR/DR Solution Pack

• HR/DR Solution Pack

Onboard Performance Monitoring

• Understanding performance statistics
• Adding, removing statistics
• Exporting data
• Statistics log

Performance Tuning

• Important performance factors
• Use HP Storage performance guidelines when planning and implementing an IP SAN solution

ISCSI SAN for applications - Exchange, SQL and SAN concepts

• Recognize best practices when setting up MS Exchange and SQL on the SAN
• Recognize advantages of using Snapshots and Remote IP Copy

Best Practices

• Best Practices

Appendix A:

• Accessing P4000 SANs from Windows 2003

Appendix B:

• Service and Troubleshooting

Appendix C:

• Introduction to the P4800 BladeSystem-based P4000 SAN

Appendix D:

• P4800 Troubleshooting