سرفصل های دوره آموزشی HP Accelerated SAN Essentials
Introduction
- SAN definition, benefits, and goals
- High-speed backup and availability
- Server and storage consolidation
- DAS, NAS, and SAN concepts and comparisons
- Host, target, and interconnect device characteristics
- Power-on sequence
Fibre Channel (FC) Basics
- FC terminology, port types, topologies, and layers
- Class of service
Fibre Channel Switches
- Switch configuration parameters
- Principal switch selection
- Frame routing within a fabric
- Trunking and port channels
- Virtualization within the fabric
SAN Hosts
- 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 Targets
- Disk drives and associated technologies
- How disks are connected to controllers
- LUN masking and array management
Fiber Channel Advanced
- 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
- SAN management choices and considerations
- Technologies driving SAN management
- HP SAN management today
- HP storage essentials
iSCSI
- IP storage
- iSCSI stack, packet construction, and name convention
- iSCSI connection, hardware options, and security
- HP Storage SAN as a sample of a iSCSI system
SAN Extension
- 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 / CEE
- FCoE and CEE standards
- FCoE I/O consolidation and terminology
- Lossless ethernet
- FCIP, iSCSI, and FCoE protocols
SAN Security
- 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
Data Protection
- Backup types and their differences
- Accelerated and dynamic de-duplication
- Synchronous and asynchronous replication
- Split mirror and snapshot replication
Performance
- 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
SAN Design
- Architecture choices and design considerations
- HP standard SAN topologies and topology design rules
- Core and edge architecture
Levels of high availability in SAN architecture