UC434S - Accelerated SAN Essentials

This five-day course provides a comprehensive and accelerated understanding of SAN technologies and concepts. Students will gain the experience needed to tackle the challenges of working in enterprise class SAN environments.

Who the course is for

This course is designed for technical professionals seeking an accelerated learning path that includes both conceptual knowledge of Fibre Channel SAN technologies and experience in heterogeneous SAN environments.

What we teach you

This course provides a comprehensive understanding of the leading SAN technologies and the experience needed to tackle the challenges of working with SAN solutions.

Required skills

Participants will be expected to have the following experience: Basic technical understanding of networking and storage, concepts and terminology. • • Experience managing Windows or UNIX systems. Recommended free web–based training at http://education.itrc.hp.com: SAN Fundamentals (U5527aae)

Teaching methods

ILT, 5 days

Teaching materials

Accelerated SAN Essentials Students Guide

Course syllabus

Introduction

What is a SAN?
Definition of a SAN?
Why a SAN?
HP SAN goals
SAN considerations
Storage Consolidation and Expansion
Efficiency improvements
High availability
High speed backup
Clustering
DAS, NAS and SAN
DAS versus NAS versus SAN
Direct Attached Storage
Distributed Storage
Network Attached Storage (NAS)
Fabrics and the SAN
Comparing SAN and NAS
Comparison by purpose
Tiered storage
SAN components
Power–on sequence

Fibre Channel Basics

Fibre Channel
Why not SCSI?
World Wide Name (WWN)
Nodes, Ports and Links
Fibre channel port types
SAN topologies
Point–to–point topology
Arbitrated loop topology
Arbitrated loop hubs
Private loop
Public loop
Switched fabric topology
Topology comparison
Topology summary
Fibre Channel architecture –– functional levels
FC–0 Physical level
Fibre channel cables
Single–mode fiber
Multi–mode fiber
Attenuation
Dispersion
Cable bends and damage
FC–1 Coding layer
FC–1 Encoding process
FC–2 –– Signaling Protocol level
Fibre Channel terminology
Frame structure
Frame header
Class of service
What is a domain
FC–3 Common Services
FC–4 ULP mappings

Fibre channel switches

Principal switch
Frame routing
Load sharing and balancing
Switches and directors
B–Series Software components
B–Series switches
M–Series fabric switches
C–Series fabric switches and multilayer directors
MultiProtocol Routers
Switch management

SAN hosts

SAN hosts
Verifying HBA installation – HP–UX
HBA interrogation
HP–UX connectivity – ioscan
ioscan utility output
HP–UX device naming
Windows connectivity – Device Manager
Windows Disk Manager
Local HBA management
Multi–path concepts
Automatic failover
Load balancing
Microsoft Multi–Path I/O (MPIO)
Installing MPIO framework and HP DSM
Installing DSM manager
DSM utilities
MPIO limitations
Secure Path introduction
Secure Path agents
Path definition
Secure Path for Windows
Microsoft Secure Path drivers
Secure Path for HP–UX
Secure Path Manager
Using SPM
Secure Path Management Tool

Disk targets

Disk storage
Disk drive connections
LUN masking
Array Configuration Utility Overview

Fibre Channel advanced

Fibre Channel addressing
FCAL Loop IDs and AL–PAs
Addressing public NL_Ports
Loop ID to ALPH conversion
Ordered sets and primitives
Flow control
Link Services
FC_AL loop initialization
Fabric login
N_Port login sequence
Well known addresses
Fabric services
nsshow
Registered State Change Notification
Fabric zoning
Zone enforcement
Zoning granularity
Fabric segmentation

SAN design

SAN architecture choices and considerations
Design process overview
SAN topologies
Design using HP SAN topologies
Tree topology
SAN infrastructure performance factors
Data availability levels in a SAN
Levels of availability iSCSI
IP storage protocols
Overview of iSCSI
iSCI/FC SAN
iSCSI stack

Catalog price of course and handbook

Locality Course price ex VAT Price of handbook ex VAT Number IT points

Praha 61500 Kč -- 0 items

Brno 61500 Kč -- 0 items

Course dates

Course date		Course length	Locality	Price ex VAT	Handbook ex VAT	Speaker language
22.11.2010		5	Praha - HP Edu. Center	73800 Kč	included in course price

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