Duration: 5 Days
In this course, you will gain a comprehensive understanding of SAN technologies and concepts. You will develop the skills needed to tackle the challenges of working in enterprise class SAN environments.
What You Will Learn
- SAN solutions and
supporting technologies, such as Fibre Channel and IP storage
- Protocols, standards,
management practices, and tools
- SAN design and
implementation considerations
- Capabilities and
limitations of the various supporting technologies
- SAN management in
enterprise environments
- Component
configuration, SAN management, and other SAN related activities
Audience
Technical professionals seeking conceptual knowledge of Fibre Channel SAN technologies and experience in heterogeneous SAN environments
Prerequistes
- Basic technical understanding of networking and storage concepts and
terminology
- Experience managing Windows or UNIX systems
Course Outline
1. Storage Area Network (SAN)
- HP SAN Goals
- Fast Backup and Restore
- Business Continuance
- High Availability
- Server and Storage Consolidation
- Efficiency Improvements
- Centralized
Management
- Direct Attached Storage (DAS), Network Attached Storage (NAS),
and SAN
- SAN Considerations
- Comparing SAN and NAS
- Comparison by
Purpose
- SAN Components
- Host, Target, and Interconnect Device
Characteristics
- Power On Sequence
2. Fibre
Channel Basics
- SCSI
- SAS vs. parallel Small Computer System Interface
(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
- Fibre Channel Port Types
- Fibre Channel Architecture:
Functional Levels
- FC-0: Physical Level
- Transceivers
- Fibre Channel
Cabling
- Multi and Single-Mode Fiber
- Single-Mode Step-Index Fiber
- 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 Extended ISL Header
- SCSI (FCP) Write Operation
- Class of Service
- FC-3 Common Services
- FC-4 ULP Mappings
3. Fibre Channel Switches
- Principal Switch
- Upstream and Downstream Links
- Frame Routing: Fabric
Shortest Path First (FSPF)
- Flow- and Exchange-Based Routing
- ISL
Bandwidth Aggregation
- B-Series Trunk
- C-Series Port Channel
- FSPF and
Host-Based Load Balancing
- Virtual Fabrics
- B-Series Virtual Fabrics
- C-Series Virtual SANs (VSANs)
- Switches and Directors
- Switch Management
4. SAN Hosts
- Hosts and Fibre Channel
- Virtualization for Hosts
- HP Integrity Virtual Machines
- N_Port
Virtualization (NPIV)
- Server Virtualization with NPIV
- Brocade Access
Gateway
- F_Port Trunking
- Cisco NPIV
- Boot from SAN
- Host
Preparation and Install
- Host Bus Adapter (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
- Device Specific Module
Utilities
5. Disk targets
- Disk Drives
- Standard Disk Driver Interfaces
- Parallel ATA/IDE and SCSI
- SATA (Serial
ATA)
- SAS (Serial Attached SCSI)
- SAS Device Limitations
- SCSI-3
Command Set and Encapsulation
- Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks (RAID)
- Disk Enclosures
- Disk Drive Connections
- Logical Unit Number (LUN) Masking
- Storage Virtualization
- Fabric Based Virtualization
- Thin and Fat
Provisioning
- HP StorageWorks Arrays
- Storage Management Utility: MSA
2300, P2000
- Command View EVA
- Command View XP AE
6.
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
- Quality of
Service (QoS) Zones
- Fabric Segmentation
7. SAN
Design
- SAN Architecture Choices and Considerations
- Planning Process
- 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
8.
Internet Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI)
- IP Storage
- iSCSI Stack,
Packet, and Encapsulation
- iSCSI Host Driver and Initiators
- iSCSI Name
Support and Structure
- Internet Storage Name Service (iSNS)
- State Change
Notification
- iSCSI Target Discovery, Operations, and Authentication
- iSCSI Challenge-Handshake Authentication Protocol (CHAP)
- IP Security
- HP
StorageWorks iSCSI SAN and Recommended Architecture
- Centralized Management
Console (CMC) and Navigation
9. SAN Extension
- HP
Supported SAN Extension Technologies
- 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 and Tape Pipelining
- Cisco
Write Acceleration
- FCIP Compression
- IP Network Considerations and Best
Practices
- FCIP security: Encryption and Advantages
- FCIP Hardware
- Fibre Channel Routing
- Fabric, Virtual Fabric, and VSAN Independence
- SAN
Scaling
- Fabric Services Limits
- Fibre Channel Routing Implementations
- B-Series and C-Series Routing
- Routing through an IP Network
10.
Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE0
- Converged Enhanced Ethernet (CEE)
- FcoE
Terminology
- OSI, FCoE, and FC Stacks
- FCoE Encapsulation
- Frame Format
- Lossless Ethernet
- HP Converged Network Switch Offerings
- Converged
Network Adapters (CANs)
- FCoE Initialization Protocol
- FIP Login/FIP
Logout
- Standard CEE Integrations
- SAN Integration
- CEE and LAN
Integration
- CEE Map
- Data Center Bridging eXchange Protocol (DCBX)
- Spanning Tree
- Minimum CEE Configuration Allowing FCoE Traffic Flow
- FCIP,
ISCSI, and FCoE
- Storage Support
- Operating System Support
11.
SAN Management
- Storage Management Tasks
- Storage Resource Management
- HP Information Lifecycle Management
Course Labs
