This five-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.
Target 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.
Pre-requisites:
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)
Key Participant Benefits:
This course provides a comprehensive understanding of the leading SAN technologies and the experience needed to tackle the challenges of working with SAN solutions.
At Course Completion:
This practical five-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.
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 fibre
Single-mode step-index fibre
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
Virtualisation for hosts
HP Integrity Virtual Machines
NPIV - N_Port Virtualisation
Server virtualisation with NPIV
Brocade Access Gateway
F_Port Trunking
Cisco N_Port Virtualisation
Transparent Router Technology
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
Solid State Disks
SCSI-3 command set and encapsulation
RAID - Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks
Disk enclosures
Disk drive connections
LUN masking
Storage Virtualisation
Fabric Based virtualisation
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
Centralised 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 initialisation Protocol
FIP Login / FIP Logout
Standard CEE integrations
SAN Integration
CEE and LAN integration
CEE Map
DCBX (Data Centre Bridging eXchange Protocol)
VLAN Membership
Minimum CEE configuration to allow FCoE traffic flow
FCIP, ISCSI & FCoE
Storage Support
Operating System Support
Security
Security in a SAN
Attacks and Exposures
Mitigation of risk
Authorisation
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
Centralised server backup
Automated centralised backup
Centralised 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 Disk 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 utilisation
Device utilisation
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
Distributed fabrics
Long distance link modes
Performance Guidelines within the SAN
Determining the required bandwidth
Drive selection and performance
RAID and RAID selection
RAID levels
RAID selection and planning
RAID level efficiency
Disk Performance
Planning a disk system
Data caching technologies
Write-back caching
Write-back cache benefits
Protecting write-back cache
Cache coherency in dual controller configurations
Effects of cache
Read-ahead caching
Application effects on performance
Environment profiling
Large sequential read environment
Server Application
Databases, mail and messaging
SQL Server 2000
Oracle 8 Server
Exchange Server
Improving performance
Comparing VRAID1 and VRAID5
Safe IOPs Calculator
EVAPerf
Windows Performance Monitor counters
Physical disk counters
EVAPerf counters
EVA storage cell counters
End to End monitoring
Top talker
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