What You'll Learn

• Select MDS 9000 platform components to meet SAN design objectives
• The MDS system architecture
• Host and storage connectivity and performance requirements
• Design a SAN topology that optimizes fan-in and fan-out, oversubscription, port usage, and redundancy
• Simplify device management with FCID assignment and DDAS
• Options for interoperating with Brocade and McDATA fabrics
• How key MDS 9000 technologies enable and simplify SAN consolidation
• How to segregate, load-balance, and prioritize application data flows to improve performance
• Design an MDS 9000 iSCSI configuration for mid-range application hosts
• Common SAN security vulnerabilities and mitigation techniques
• Key concepts in disaster recovery and business continuity planning
• Design SAN extension solutions using FCIP, WDM, and TDM networks
• Design SAN extension solutions to meet application reliability and performance requirements

Course Outline

1. MDS 9000 Platform Overview

• MDS 9000 Platform Components
  • The MDS 9000 Platform
  • MDS 9000 Crossbar and Supervisor Modules
  • Oversubscription
  • MDS 9000 Modules
  • Installation Guidelines
  • Configuring Power Supplies
  • Supervisor and Line Card modules Installation
• Intelligent Fabric Services
  • SMB and Enterprise SAN Requirements and Consolidation Methods
  • The MDS 9000 Virtual SAN
  • MDS Intelligent Services Modules
  • I/O Acceleration
  • FC-Redirect
• Initial Setup, Fabric Manager, and CLI
  • Initial Setup
  • Cisco Fabric Manager
  • Fabric Manager Server
  • CLI

2. Designing SAN Fabrics

• SAN Design Overview
  • The SAN Design Methodology
  • Small and Midrange Deployments
  • Enterprise Data Center Deployments
• Application Architecture
  • Application Architecture Tiers
  • Presentation Tier Design
  • Application Tier Design
  • Storage Tier Design
  • High-Performance Computing
• Designing Host Connectivity
  • Applications and Latency
  • Measuring IOPS
  • Host I/O Throughput
  • Selecting the Optimum Port Type
  • Exercise: Calculating Host I/O Requirements
• Designing Storage Connectivity
  • Array Architecture Overview
  • RAID Overview
  • Selecting the Optimum Port Type
• Building the SAN
  • Collapsed Core Architecture
  • Core-Edge Fabrics
  • Oversubscription Considerations
  • PortChannels
  • Traffic Engineering and QOS
• Redundant Fabric Design
  • Redundancy and High Availability
  • Redundant Fabrics
  • Load Balancing Methods
  • Calculating Throughput
  • Restricted Bandwidth
  • Virtual Fabrics
  • IVR Review
• Simplifying Device Management
  • FCID Assignment
  • Distributed Device Alias Services
  • CFS Infrastructure

3. Consolidating Storage in the Data Center

• Consolidating Storage in the Data Center
  • The Benefits of Consolidation
  • SAN Fabric Consolidation with VSANs
  • Fibre Channel Over Ethernet
  • Server Consolidation and Virtualization
  • Storage Consolidation
  • Storage Virtualization
  • FAIS Overview
  • Snapshots and Replication
  • Array Based Replication
  • SANTap and Backup Overview
• Migration and Interoperable SANs
  • Interoperability Modes
  • MultiVendor SANs
  • Migration from Third-Party Fabrics
  • Data Migration
  • Simplifying SAN migration
• iSCSI Host Usage
  • Addressing Midrange Application Requirements
  • iSCSI Overview
  • iSCSI Performance
  • When to Deploy iSCSI
  • iSCSI Deployment Options
  • MDS 9000 iSCSI Options
  • MDS 9000 iSCSI High Availability

4. Securing the SAN

• Securing the SAN Fabric
  • Discussion: How Secure is a SAN?
  • Loss of Privacy
  • AAA Overview
  • Implementing RBAC
  • SAN Vulnerabilities-Data Theft and Integrity
  • Zoning Overview
  • LUN Masking and LUN Zoning
  • Impersonation
  • Denial of Service

5. Designing SAN Extension Solutions

• Analyzing Business Objectives
  • RTO and RPO
  • Recovery Methods
  • The RDBMS Recovery process
  • Snapshots and Replication
  • SANTap Overview
  • Backup Overview
  • Latency and Distance Limitations
• Connecting SANs with Optical Networks
  • Dark Fiber
  • DWDM
  • CWDM
  • SONET and SDH
  • ONS 15454 MSTP
• Connecting SANs with IP Networks
  • FCIP Protocol Overview
  • FCIP Topologies
  • Comparing SAN Extension Solutions
  • Exercise: Selecting an Appropriate Platform
• Tuning FCIP Performance
  • Overview of FCIP Tuning Parameters
  • Configuring TCP Timeout, Retransmit, and Selective Acknowledgement
  • Configuring the MTU
  • FCIP Flow Control
  • Packet Shaping
  • FCIP Compression
  • FCIP Write Acceleration
  • FCIP Tape Acceleration
  • IP QOS Overview
  • Using the SAN extension Tuner
  • Buffer Credit Overview
  • Exercise: Calculating Buffer Credits

Appendix A: SCSI Overview

• SCSI Protocol
• SCSI Addressing
• SCSI Architecture Model
• SCSI Commands
• Building an I/O Request
• Error Handling

Appendix B: Fibre Channel Overview

• Fibre Channel Topologies
• Fibre Channel Ports
• Cisco MDS Ports
• FC Layers
• FC Frame Structure
• FC Data Constructs
• FC Flow Control
• Allocating Buffer Credits
• FC Addressing
• Fibre Channel Login
• Zoning Overview
• Fabric Services
• Well-Known Addresses
• FSPF Routing
• FC Error Handling

Appendix C: MDS 9000 Hardware Installation Reference

• Installation Guidelines
• Cabinet and Rack Options
• Configuring Power Supplies
• Installing Fan Modules
• Supervisor and Line Card Modules Installation

Labs

Lab 1: Initial Switch Configuration

Lab 2: Configuring Device Aliases and Zoning

Case Study 1: Designing a Fibre Channel SAN

Case Study 2: Designing an Enterprise SAN

Lab 3: Configuring High Availability SAN Extension

Lab 4: Configuring IVR for SAN Extension

Case Study 3: Designing SAN Extension Solutions

Case Study Solutions

Classroom Dates and Locations

Date	Location Details
Sep 20 - 24, 2010	Dallas, TX	Register
Nov 1 - 5, 2010	Toronto, ON	Register
Nov 8 - 12, 2010	New York, NY	Register
Dec 6 - 10, 2010	Vancouver, BC	Register
Jan 10 - 14, 2011	Herndon, VA	Register

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