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HP Accelerated SAN Essentials (UC434S)
This course provides a comprehensive and accelerated
understanding of SAN technologies and concepts. Students
gain experience needed to tackle challenges of working in
enterprise class SAN environments. The course is 60 percent
lecture and 40 percent hands-on labs using HP servers.
Course title: HP Accelerated SAN Essentials
HP product number: UC434S
Category/Subcategory: Storage
Course length: 5 days
Level: Intermediate
Delivery language: English
To order: To review course schedules and to register for a
course, visit www.hp.com/learn/storage and
select your country from the drop down menu, or,
contact your HP sales representative or HP
authorized channel partner.
Audience
Technical professionals seeking an accelerated learning path that
includes both conceptual knowledge of fibre channel SAN
technologies and experience in heterogeneous SAN environments
Prerequisites
Basic technical understanding of networking and storage concepts
and terminology and
Experience managing Windows or UNIX systems
Recommended free web-based training at
http://education.itrc.hp.com: SAN Fundamentals (U5527AAE)
Course objectives
At the conclusion of this course you should be able to:
Identify the differences between DAS, NAS, and SAN
Explain fibre channel layers and switch configuration parameters
Boot from SAN and verify device connectivity
Install and use SANsurfer utility
Implement zoning and troubleshoot fabric segmentation
Configure an HP storage SAN and RBAC B-series
Secure SAN data and mitigate risk
Plan a disk system that accounts for effects of RAID, cache, and
chunk size on performance
Benefits to you
Gain a comprehensive understanding of the leading SAN technologies
and the experience needed to tackle the challenges of working with
SAN solutions
Why education services from HP?
Training Industry Top 20 training provider and content development
Recognized as an IDC MarketScape leader for IT education (IDC
MarketScape: Worldwide IT Education and Training 2012 Vendor
Analysis, doc #232870, February 2012)
Unmatched technical expertise and support for HP products and
technologies
Training you need, when and where you need it with our Remotely
Assisted Instructional Learning (RAIL)
More than 30 years of Education Consulting
Global training with more than 90 training locations worldwide
Next steps
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Detailed course outline
Introduction
SAN definition, benefits, and goals
High-speed backup and availability
Server and storage consolidation
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Fibre Channel (FC) Basics
Fibre Channel Switches
SAN Hosts
Disk Targets
Fibre Channel Advanced
SAN Management
iSCSI
DAS, NAS, and SAN concepts and comparisons
Host, target, and interconnect device characteristics
Power-on sequence
FC terminology, port types, topologies, and layers
Class of service
Switch configuration parameters
Principal switch selection
Frame routing within a fabric
Trunking and port channels
Virtualization within the fabric
Host role within SAN and virtualization
Host installation checklist and bus connections
Boot from SAN and load balancing
Multi-path SAN connections and software
Multi-path I/O (MPIO) components within OS
Disk drives and associated technologies
How disks are connected to controllers
LUN masking and array management
Fibre channel addressing and reserved addresses
Ordered sets
Primitive signals and sequences
Flow control and zoning
Link and fabric services
Fabric login and segmentation
SAN management choices and considerations
Technologies driving SAN management
HP SAN management today
HP storage essentials
IP storage
iSCSI stack, packet construction, and name convention
iSCSI connection, hardware options, and security
SAN Extension
FCoE / CEE
SAN Security
Data Protection
Performance
SAN Design
HP Storage SAN as a sample of a iSCSI system
SAN extension technologies and implementations
Fibre channel over IP (FCIP)
FCIP and its role in SAN extension
FCIP performance and security
Fibre routing implementations in a SAN
FCoE and CEE standards
FCoE I/O consolidation and terminology
Lossless ethernet
FCIP, iSCSI, and FCoE protocols
Basic storage security model and access points
Planning security in a SAN
Core components for securing SAN data management
Security in practice
Authentication and encryption
Backup types and their differences
Accelerated and dynamic de-duplication
Synchronous and asynchronous replication
Split mirror and snapshot replication
Factors affecting SAN, disk, and drive speed performance
Fibre channel technology and how it affects storage performance
Planning a disk system that accounts for effects of RAID, cache, and
chunk size on performance
I/O profiling
Architecture choices and design considerations
HP standard SAN topologies and topology design rules
Core and edge architecture
Levels of high availability in SAN architecture
For more information
To review course schedules and to register for a course, visit
www.hp.com/learn/storage and select your country from the drop
down menu.