Instructor-led training (
ILT)
Onsite dedicated training (
OST)
Price
USD $4,000
CAD $4,800
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.
THIS COURSE REPLACES COURSE U4235S
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 at 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
Save with the HP Care Pack education service offerings
Configuring, Managing and Maintaining HP Storage Essentials (HE777S)
HP StorageWorks XP 1: Configuration and Management (H6773S)
Benefits to you
This course provides a comprehensive understanding of the leading SAN technologies and the experience needed to tackle the challenges of working with SAN solutions.
Course outline
Introduction
What is a SAN? / Why a SAN?
Fast Backup and Restore
Business continuance
High availability
Clustering
Server and Storage Consolidation
Efficiency improvements
Centralized Management
DAS, NAS and SAN
Direct Attached Storage (DAS) and Network Attached Storage (NAS)
Distributed Storage
SAN Considerations
Tiered storage
SAN components
Host, target and interconnect device characteristics
Power-on sequence
Fibre Channel Basics
Why not SCSI?
World Wide Name (WWN)
Fibre Channel WWN
Nodes, Ports and Links
SAN Topologies
Point-to-point topology
Arbitrated loop topology and loop hubs
Private and public loops
Switched fabric topology
Fibre Channel port types and architecture
FC-0--Physical level
Transceivers
Fibre Channel cabling
Multi- and single-mode fiber
Single-mode step-index fiber
Attenuation and 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
CSI (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)
Fabric-based Storage Virtualization
HP StorageWorks SVS200
Switches and Directors
B-series product family and Software components
C-series product family
Device management
SAN hosts
Hosts and Fibre Channel
Virtualization for hosts
NPIV -- N_Port Virtualization
Virtual Machines
Boot from SAN
Host preparation and install
HBA installation and interrogation
Windows connectivity -- Device Manager
Windows disk Manager
Verifying HBA installation hp-ux
Agile addressing hp-ux 11i v3
Multiple paths to storage
Automatic path failover
Load balancing HP Education services are governed by the HP Education Services Terms and Conditions 4
Microsoft Multi-Path I/O (MPIO) and storage stack
MPIO driver modules
DSM utilities
Secure Path for HP-UX
Secure Path driver hp-ux
File systems
Disk targets
Disk Drives
Standard disk driver interfaces
SCSI-3 command set and encapsulation
RAID
Disk enclosures and connections
LUN masking
HP StorageWorks arrays
Array Configuration Utility -- MSA
Command View EVA
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 and services
N_Port login sequence
Well known addresses
Name server detail
Registered State change Notification
Fabric zoning
Zone members, enforcement and granularity
Fabric segmentation
SAN design
SAN architecture choices and considerations
Planning process
HP Standard SAN topologies
Design using HP SAN topologies
Single-switch fabrics
Cascaded Fabric
Ring, meshed and core-edge fabrics
Initial cost of deployment
Data locality
Topology data access usage
SAN infrastructure performance factors
Availability
Level 1: Single connectivity fabric
Level 2: Single resilient fabric
Level 3: Single-resilient fabric and multiple device paths
Level 4: Multiple fabrics and device paths
HP StorageWorks SAN Design Reference Guide
iSCSI
IP storage and protocols
Overview of iSCSI
iSCI/FC SAN
iSCSI stack
iSCSI encapsulation
iSCSI Host Driver
iSCSI initiators
iSNS
IP security
SAN extension
What is a SAN extension?
Why extend the SAN?
HP Supported SAN extension technologies
Fibre Channel over IP
FCIP performance
Network speeds
FCIP compression
IP network considerations and bet practices
FCIP security, encryption, advantage and hardware HP Education services are governed by the HP Education Services Terms and Conditions 5
SAN scaling
Scaling by routing
Fibre Channel routing implementations
SAN island consolidation
Integration of Fibre Channel routing and FCIP
Tape backup consolidation
SAN management
Storage management tasks
Increasing administration costs
Why storage management?
HP Information Lifecycle Management (ILM)
SAN management concepts and strategy
SAN performance and storage capacity management
SMI-S
Storage Essentials
HP StorageWorks Fabric Manager
SAN security
Basic security model
Security domains
Attacks and exposures
Mitigation of risk
SAN security access points
Storage security model
Data and management securities
SAN security practices
Planning SAN security prevention
Data path and management path security in practice
Storage security in an enterprise environment
Security in practice
Authentication
FCIP encryption
Data protection
Protection and recovery methods
Data protection technologies
Direct backup -- tape
Tape libraries
Zoning for backup
Backup performance considerations
Virtual Tape Libraries
Disk to Tape
Data replication
Split-mirror and snapshot backup concepts
Remote, synchronous and asynchronous replication
Comparing replication modes
HP StorageWorks Storage Mirroring
SAN performance
Performance objectives and factors
Data rate and response time
PCI-X performance balancing
Bus and device Utilization
I/O performance data
Fibre Channel technology
ISL oversubscription
Hop latency
Data priority -- quality of service
Device attachment points
Distance considerations and disk drive performance
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