Detailed Course Outline
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
- SAN portfolio overview
- Power-on sequence
Fibre Channel (FC) Basics
- Addressing
- FC terminology, WWNs, port types, and topologies
Switch Installation and Configuration
- In the box
- Steps overview
- Environmental issues
- Configuration parameters
- Initial CLI and serial connection
- Default passwords
- IP settings
- CLI settings
- Time settings
- Licensing management
- Login banner
- Switch, chassis, fabric and port names
- Syslog
- Checkin switch and ports status
- Configuration file backup
- Rebooting
SAN Hosts
- Host role within SAN
- Converged network adapters
- NPIV overview, benefits, scalability and management
- HPE Virtual Connect overview
- Host installation checklist and bus connections
- Boot from SAN
- Finding WWNs
- Multi-path SAN and load balancing
- Multi-path I/O (MPIO) components within OS
Disk Targets
- SATA interface
- SAS interface
- SSD technologies
- Disk enclosures
- Connecting disks to controllers
- Storage presentation
- Storage virtualization
- Storage deduplication
- Provisioning types
- Data encryption
- VVOLs
- Portfolio overview
Fibre Channel Basic Services
- SNS/name server
- SNS in web tools
- SNS related commands
- Zoning overview
- Zoning building blocks
- Basic zoning configuration via CLI and GUI
- Fabric segmentation
- Zoning best practices
SAN Management
- SAN management choices and considerations
- Technologies driving SAN management
- HPE SAN management today
- HPE B-series management options overview
- Web tools
- SNMP
- SAN Network Advisor
- REST API
- HPE OneView
iSCSI
- IP storage overview
- iSCSI stack, packet construction and name convention
- iSCSI initiator options
- iSCSI discovery methods and security
- HPE Nimble array as an iSCSI product example
SAN Extension
- Basics and overview
- Cables and SFPs
- Fabric virtualization overview
FCoE/CEE
- FCoE and CEE standards
- FCoE I/O consolidation and terminology
- FCoE stack and encapsulation
- Lossless Ethernet
- Priority-based Flow Control (PFC)
- Enhanced Transmission Selection (ETS)
- Congestion Notification (CN)
- Data Center Bridging Capabilities Exchange (DCBX)
- FCIP, iSCSI and FCoE basic comparison
SAN Security
- Basic storage security model and access points
- Planning security in a SAN environment
- Core components for securing SAN data management
- Data and basic management security models
- RBAC
- Roles management
- Password rules and local/remote authentication
Data Protection
- Reasons for data protection
- Data protection challenges
- Data classification
- Protection and recovery methods
- RPO and RTO
- Backup types and their differences
- Backup topologies
- Tape libraries overview
- HPE StoreOnce overview and introduction
- Deduplication
- HPE Cloud Bank Storage
- Local and remote replication
- HPE RMC
Performance
- Factors affecting SAN performance
- SAN performance planning and considerations
- Latencies and congestion
- Performance guidelines within the SAN
- Recommendations for switch ISL connectivity
- Determining the required bandwidth
- Storage performance (drive and RAID selection)
- Performance monitoring
SAN Design
- Architecture choices and design considerations
- HPE-standard SAN topologies and topology design rules
- 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