Duration

5 days

Overview

This course provides a comprehensive and accelerated understanding of SAN technologies and concepts. Students gain experience needed to tackle challenges of working in enterprise class SAN environments. The course is 60 percent lecture and 40 percent hands-on labs using HPE servers.

Audience

Technical professionals seeking an accelerated learning path that includes both conceptual knowledge of Fibre Channel SAN technologies and experience in heterogeneous SAN environments.

Prerequisites

Basic technical understanding ofnetworking and storage concepts andterminology
Experience managing Windows® or UNIX®systems
Recommended free web-based training:SAN Fundamentals (U5527AAE)

Course objectives

After completing this course, students will be able to:

Describe what is SAN and SAN benefits
List SAN components
Identify the differences between DAS,NAS, and SAN
Compare different data access methods
Talk about FC topologies
Explain Fibre Channel layers and switchconfiguration parameters
Talk about switch features
Describe role of a host in a SAN network
Identify host related virtualization options
Boot from SAN and verify deviceconnectivity
Install and use host software/OScommands for HBA management
Describe multipathing
Talk about storage technologies andstorage management options
Explain advanced FC concepts and switchfeatures
Implement zoning and troubleshoot fabricsegmentation
Talk about SAN management options
Describe iSCSI and iSCSl-based products
List SAN extension options and FC-FCrouting
Talk about FCoE technologies
Secure SAN data and mitigate risk
Configure an HPE storage SAN and RBAC
Talk about data protection (backup,replication)
Cover SAN and storage planningperformance aspects and monitoring
Design and document SAN

Module 1: Introduction

SAN definition, benefits, and goals
High-speed backup and high availability
Server and storage consolidation
DAS, NAS, and SAN concepts and comparisons
SAN considerations
Tier storage
SAN components
Host, target, and interconnect device characteristics
Power-on sequence

Module 3: SAN hosts

Host role within SAN and virtualization
Converged network adapters
Host installation checklist and bus connections
Dynamic fabric provisioning
HBA management
Boot from SAN and load balancing
Multi-path SAN connections and software
Multi-path I/O (MPIO) components within OS

Module 4: Disk targets

Disk drives and associated technologies
How disks are connected to controllers
LUN masking and array management

Module 5: Fibre Channel advanced

Fibre Channel addressing and reserved addresses
Frames and transmission building blocks
Ordered sets
Primitive signals and sequences
Flow control and different types of zoning
Link and fabric services
Fabric login and segmentation

Module 6: SAN management

SAN management choices and considerations
Technologies driving SAN management
HPE SAN management today
SMI-S
HPE storage essentials
B/C/H-series management options

Module 7: iSCSI

IP storage
iSCSI stack packet construction, and name convention
iSCSI connection, hardware options, and security
HPE StoreVirtual as a sample of an iSCSI system

Module 8: SAN extension

Long distance cabling
SAN extension reasons
SAN extension technologies and implementations
Cables and SFPs
C/DWDM
Fibre Channel over IP (FCIP)
FCIP and its role in SAN extension
FCIP performance and security
SAN extension performance
Brocade Fast Write and Cisco Write acceleration
Fibre routing implementations in a SAN

Module 9: FCoE and CEE

FCoE and CEE standards
FCoE I/O consolidation and terminology
FCoE stack and encapsulation
Lossless Ethernet
FCIP, iSCSI, and FCoE protocols
CEE and DCBX technology
FCIP, iSCSI, and FCoE comparisons

Module 10: SAN security

Basic storage security model and access points
Planning security in a SAN
Core components for securing SAN data management
Security policies
Data and management security models
B/C-series RBAC
RADIUS support
Security in practice
Authentication and encryption

Module 11: Data protection

Reasons for data protection
Data protection challenges
Data classification
Protection and recovery methods
Backup types and their differences
Backup topologies
Disk and tape solutions
StoreOnce de-duplication
Split mirror and snapshot replication
Synchronous and asynchronous replication

Module 12: Performance

Factors affecting SAN, disk, and drive speed performance
Fibre Channel technology and how it affects storage performance
Long distance connectivity
Performance guidelines
Planning a disk system that accounts for effects of RAID, cache, and chunk size on performance
I/O profiling
Performance monitoring

Module 13: SAN design

Architecture choices and design considerations
HPE standard SAN topologies and topology design rules
SAN planning
Advantages, disadvantages, and scalability of different topologies
Data locality
Topology data access usage
SAN infrastructure performance factors
Levels of high availability in SAN architecture
SAN planning and documentation utilities

Next steps

Managing HPE 3PAR StoreServ I (HK902S)
HPE XP Storage Array Administration and Configuration (HK905S)

Programme scope, delivery arrangements and suitability are confirmed during enquiry.

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