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This course is designed for new or entry-level B-Series SAN administrators. It provides a comprehensive understanding of everyday administration within an HPE SAN solution, covering a broad range of technologies and concepts such as FC, iSCSI, and FCoE. It discusses basics and building blocks of FC and IP-SAN with examples based on B-Series products, as well as the role of SAN-enabled hosts and disk targets. B-Series SAN features and management options are also presented. Other topics include data protection, basic SAN security, and performance aspects of SAN components. Please note that advanced technologies are only introduced in this course, while they are fully covered in the SAN Essentials II: Advanced B-series Networking class. This training helps students gain the experience needed to tackle the challenges of working in medium-sized and enterprise-class BSeries SAN environments. This course covers general SAN technologies and StoreFabric B-series specific topics.

Students should be experienced professionals with a solid understanding of servers, storage, networks and virtualization

Describe SAN and SAN benefits
List SAN components
Present the overall HPE SAN portfolio
Identify the differences between DAS, NAS, and SAN
Compare different data access methods
Talk about FC topologies
Discuss WWN identifiers and FC addressing
Talk about basic switch features and configuration parameters
Perform initial switch installation, configuration and verification
Describe the role of a host in a SAN network nd host-related technologies including NPIV and load balancing.
Present the role of storage in a SAN network and storage-related technologies including disks and interfaces types, encryption, deduplication and VVOLs overview.
Explain basic FC concepts and SAN services, such as zoning and name server
Talk about basic B-Series SAN management options and technologies
Describe iSCSI protocol and Nimble storage array as an iSCSI-based product example
Talk about FCoE technologies including building blocks and how it compares to FCIP and iSCSI
Present the theory of SAN security and basic B-Series based implementation as well as authentication options
Talk about data protection (backup, replication) including theory, topologies, technologies and related HPE products: StoreOnce, tape, CloudBank Storage and RMC
Cover SAN and storage planning performance aspects and monitoring options
Design and document SAN

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

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

Host installation checklist and bus connections

Boot from SAN

Multi-path SAN and load balancing

Multi-path I/O (MPIO) components within OS

NPIV overview, benefits, scalability and management

HPE Virtual Connect overview

Finding WWNs

Disk Targets

SATA interface

SAS interface

SSD technologies

Disk enclosures

Storage presentation

Storage Virtualization

Connecting disks to controllers

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

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

SNMP

REST API

OneView

Web Tools

SAN Network Advisor

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 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

Backup types and their differences

Backup topologies

RMC

RPO and RTO

Tape libraries overview

StoreOnce overview and introduction

CloudBank Storage

Local and remote replication

Deduplication

Performance

Factors affecting SAN performance

SAN performance planning and considerations

Latencies and congestion

Performance monitoring

Performance guidelines within the SAN

Recommendations for switch ISL connectivity

Determining the required bandwidth

Storage performance (drive and RAID selection)

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

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