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'll 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

Who Needs to Attend

Technical professionals seeking conceptual knowledge of Fibre Channel SAN technologies and experience in heterogeneous SAN environments

Prerequisites

• Basic technical understanding of networking and storage concepts and terminology
• Experience managing Windows or UNIX systems

Follow-On Courses

There are no follow-ons for this course.

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 (ILM)
• SAN Management Concepts
• HP SAN Management Strategy
• SAN Performance Management
• Storage Capacity Management
• Storage Management Initiative-Specifications (SMI-S)
• Storage Essentials
• Enterprise Edition Plug-Ins
• Base Components
• System, Capacity, and Performance Manager
• Application Viewer
• Policy and Event Manager
• Database, Exchange, and File System Viewer
• Backup Manager
• HP StorageWorks Fabric Manager
• HP Data Center Fabric Manager (DCFM)
• Cisco Fabric Manager

12. Security

• Security in a SAN
• Attacks and Exposures
• Mitigation of Risk
• Authorization
• Audits and Encryption
• Role-Based Security
• Remote Authentication Dial -In User Service (RADIUS)
• Planning SAN Security Prevention
• Response to Attacks
• Security in Practice
• FCIP Encryption and Data Encryption at Rest

13. Data Protection

• Challenges in Data Protection
• Recovery Operations
• Protection and Recovery Methods
• Data Protection Technologies
• Direct Backup: Tape
• Centralized Server Backup
• Automated Centralized Backup
• Centralized 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
• Deduplication
• Accelerated Deduplication
• Hash-Based Chunking
• Disk to Disk and Virtual Library Portfolio with Duplication
• Remote Replication
• HP StorageWorks Continuous Access Enterprise Virtual Array (CA EVA)
• Synchronous and Asynchronous Replication
• Comparing Replication Modes
• HP OpenView Storage Mirroring
• OpenView Storage Mirroring (OVSM)

14. SAN Performance

• Performance Factors and Terms
• Drive Speed and Response Time
• Bus and Device Utilization
• Improving Performance and Reducing Service Time
• SAN Performance Considerations
• Latencies
• ISL Oversubscription
• Bandwidth Consumption and Congestion
• Hop Latency
• Data Priority: QoS
• 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
• Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) Selection
• RAID Levels, Selection, and Planning
• RAID Level Efficiency
• Disk Performance
• Planning a Disk System
• Data Caching Technologies
• Write-Back Caching
  • Benefits
  • Protecting
• 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 Input/Output Operations Per Second (IOPS) Calculator
• EVAPerf and EVAPerf Counters
• Windows Performance Monitor Counters
• Physical Disk Counters
• EVA Storage Cell Counters
• End to End Monitoring Top Talker