HP Education Services Course Overview

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1 HP Education Services Course Overview SAN Boot Camp (U4235S) This five-day course provides a comprehensive understanding of the leading SAN technologies and the hands-on experience needed to tackle the challenges of working with multivendor solutions. This release aligns this course with the new SNIA exams for 100 and 200. Audience This course is designed for technical professionals seeking an accelerated learning path that includes both conceptual knowledge of Fibre Channel SAN technologies and hands-on experience in heterogeneous SAN environments. It will also prepare individuals for SNIA Fibre Channel SAN Practitioner Certification Prerequisites Participants will be expected to have the following experience: Basic technical understanding of networking and storage, concepts and terminology Experience managing Windows NT/2000 or UNIX systems Recommended free web-based training at SAN Fundamentals (U5527AAE) Course Objective This accelerated five-day course provides comprehensive, vendor neutral exposure to SAN solutions and supporting technologies, such as Fibre Channel and IP storage. Participants learn about protocols, standards, management practices and tools, and SAN design and implementation considerations. Class discussions cover a wide range of topics, including the capabilities and limitations of the various supporting technologies and SAN management in enterprise environments. Hands-on labs provide experience with component installation and configuration, SAN management, and key SAN applications such as clustering and backup.

2 Benefits to You For technical professionals who play a hands-on role in the implementing and supporting Storage Area Networking (SAN) solutions, this course provides a comprehensive understanding of the leading SAN technologies and the hands-on experience needed to tackle the challenges of working with multivendor solutions. Why education services from HP? Online instructor-led and self-paced training at Focus on job-specific skills Comprehensive student materials Online instructor-led and self-paced training at State-of-the-art classroom facilities Customized on-site delivery Hands-on practice More than 80 training locations worldwide Experienced and best-in-the-field HP instructors Course Title: SAN Boot Camp HP Product Number: U4235S Category/Subcategory: Storage Course Length: 5 days Level: Intermediate Delivery Language: English To Order: You can order this course online at At the site, select a country, then choose ''registration'' or ''Book a course'' and fill out the online registration form. Next Steps: Managing HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array (U4879S) Next Steps: Designing and Implementing MSA Storage Solutions (U4226S) Next Steps: HP StorageWorks XP Disk Arrays (H6773S) 2

3 Detailed Course Outline Basic storage technology Disc drive interfaces. Comparing SCSI and ATA. The SCSI bus. Parallel bus basics. SCSI-2 and SCSI-3. From SCSI to the SAN. Routing SCSI across a SAN. Storage networking architecture Direct-attached storage. Network-attached storage. Why fibre channel? IP storage. SAN extension. ESCON/FICON. NAS concepts NAS architecture. Scalability issues. NAS gateways. File-based applications. Home directory, , and web servers. NAS for databases? Backup and recovery. Network data management protocol. NAS protocols. SAN components RAID arrays. Disk array caching. Cache protection. Software and hardware RAID RAID levels. Fibre channel fabric switches. Director-class switches. Tape devices. FC to SCSI bridge/routers. Fibre channel WAN connectivity. Fibre channel HBAs. Mapping hosts to storage. Addressing disk storage and SCSI tape storage. Drive mapping: host level. Drive mapping: virtualization. SAN topologies Fibre channel terminology. Nodes, ports, and links Point-to-point topology and applications. Switched fabric. Fabric switches. Switch topology: generic model. Fibre channel ports. Fabric ports, and loop parts. Node loop ports. Topology and port summary. Fibre channel protocol Serial architecture. Protocol comparison. Fibre channel layered model. FC-0: physical interface. FC-1: encoding. 8b/10b encoding. FC-2 framing and flow control. FC-3: common services. FC-4: upper-layer interfaces. ULP mapping and information transfer. Physical layer Electrical vs. optical. Media characteristics. Electrical technology. 3

4 Electrical media types summary. Identification. 1Gb optical connectors. 2GB/4Gb optical connectors. Electrical connectors. Data constructs Fibre channel data constructs. FCP mapping. ULP information transfer. Frames. Use of frames. Transmission words. Ordered sets and types. Frame delimiters. Primitive signals and sequences. Flow control Classes of service. Simultaneous exchanges. Flow control. Base and alternate model. Buffer credit calculations. Dynamic buffer allocation. Addressing and routing Fibre channel addressing Fabric address space. Switch topology address assignment. World-wide names. Fibre channel addressing summary. Fibre channel vs. IP. Routing requirements. Fabric design Planning and design. Cascade and cascade ring. Full and partial mesh. Core-edge. SAN islands. Next-generation switch platforms. Collapsed fabrics and core architecture. Advantages and disadvantages of directors. HA design. Redundant fabrics. Virtual SANs. VSAN configuration. Logical SANs Multipathing with and without load-balancing. Fabric services Name and login server. Fabric/switch controller. Alias server. Volume allocation and security. Fabric zoning. Overlapping zones. SAN file systems. Fabric login Login to name server. Logout of server. Port login to target. IP storage overview FCIP ifcp iscsi iscsi-fc hybrid model. Protocol stacks. Frames and packets. Industry organizations. iscsi The iscsi protocol. iscsi messages and entities. 4

5 iscsi naming and addressing. iscsi IQN and EUI names iscsi implementations. Software iscsi. SAN Extension FCIP concepts and standards. FC frame encapsulation. FCIP and B-port implementations. ifcp concepts. FCIP and ifcp. What are SONET and SDH? DWDM concepts, advantages and components. CWDM. WAN design metrics. Applications for SAN extension. Remote mirroring and tape vaulting. Host-to-storage access. SAN extension solutions and applications. SAN device management Device and SAN network management. Fabric management products. Device management capabilities. Discovery and visualization. Configuration, asset, and fault management. Policy-based management. Performance monitoring and analysis tools. Management security. SMI-S introduces standardization. WBEM architecture. CIM interop model, and implementations. SMI-S interface roles, implementation, features and capabilities. Security management Enterprise data security. Sources of vulnerabilities. Points of vulnerability. Types of attacks. Layers of security. SAN extension security. FC-SP Authentication, and encryption. FC ESP frame encapsulation. Other encryptions options. Securing management interfaces. Authorization and authentication. Storage resource management Storage resource management levels. Cost of information storage. ILM. Enterprise data retention. Tiers of storage. Monitoring and analysis. HSM and ADM features. Automated provisioning. Content addressable storage (CAS). Virtualization and data sharing What is storage virtualization? Storage virtualization taxonomy. Virtualization architecture. Symmetric and asymmetric storage virtualization. Array-based virtualization. Host-based virtualization. Network-based virtualization. Data sharing. Load-balancing. Data protection Traditional backup. LAN-based backup bottleneck. SAN data protection technologies. RTO and RPO. Storage- and server-based mirroring. 5

6 Remote mirroring over WAN. Troubleshooting the fabric Multi-switch fabrics. Fabric configuration. Performance measurement tools Principal switch selection. LSR update timers. Replacing HBAs - issues. Old switch replacement with a new switch. Insert a new populated switch into an existing fabric. Zoning issues. ISLs and FSPF. Domain IDs. Configuring time-out values. Performance tuning overview Component performance characteristics. HBA, array, and switch performance characteristics. ISL load balancing. Topologies and latency. Tuning application performance. IOMeter. iostat Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. The information contained herein is subject to change without notice. The only warranties for HP products and services are set forth in the express warranty statements accompanying such products and services. Nothing herein should be construed as constituting an additional warranty. HP shall not be liable for technical or editorial errors or omissions contained herein. To locate country contact information and to learn more about HP education services, please visit our worldwide web site at