Plan szkolenia
1. 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
2. Fibre Channel (FC) Basics
• Addressing
• FC terminology, WWNs, port types, and topologies
3. 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
4. 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
5. 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
6. 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
7. 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
8. 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
9. SAN Extension
• Basics and overview
• Cables and SFPs
• Fabric virtualization overview
10. 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
11. 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
12. 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
13. 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
14. 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
Lab 0: Accessing vLabs
• Exercise 1: Access the HPE vLabs
Lab 2: B-series Switch Exploration
• Connecting to a fabric switch using web tools
• CLI basics
• Basic switch status commands
• Viewing port status
• Setting the switch domain ID
• Backing up system configuration settings
Lab 3: Administration and Configuration
• Configuring ports
• Persistent port disable
• Configuring a port name
• Deny F-port
Lab 4: Installing and Using the
QConverge Utility for QLogic HBAs in
Windows
• Installing the QConverge HBA configuration utility
• Login and management
Lab 5: Host Verification and Storage
Allocation
• Host verification in SSMC
• Volume provisioning
• Windows multi-pathing/native MPIO
• Windows host configuration formatting and mounting VLUNs
Lab 6: Fabric Zoning
• WWN zoning
Lab 8: HPE Nimble-based iSCSI
Configuration
• Task 1: Preparation
• Task 2: Provisioning
• Task 3: Presenting
• Task 4: Windows host setup (NCM)
• Task 5: Return to the Windows host to prepare and mount
the volume
Lab 10: Basic Security Administration
and Configuration
• Creating a new user account
Lab 11: HPE 3PAR Snapshot
Management
• Preparing and creating a snapshot