Detailed Course Outline
Module 0: Course Overview
- Course topics
Module 1: SAN Introduction
- What is a SAN?
- HPE Storage Networking: Enables systems for critical workloads
- Business continuance
- High availability
- Server and storage consolidation
- Centralized management
- Basic methods of storage connectivity
- SAN considerations
- DAS versus NAS versus SAN
- SAN components
- HPE Storage Networking: Hardware positioning
- Fibre Channel and Ethernet—Decoded and positioned
Module 2: Fibre Channel
- Fibre channel introduction
- World Wide Name (WWN)
- Nodes, ports, and links
- SAN topologies
- Fibre Channel port types
- Fibre Channel addressing
- Basic Fibre Channel services
- Simple Name Service
- Zoning
- Fabric segmentation
- Fibre Channel networking products portfolios
Module 3: iSCSI
- Overview of iSCSI protocol
- iSCSI maps SCSI onto a network
- iSCSI stack
- iSCSI initiators
- iSCSI target discovery
- iSCSI operations
- iSCSI authentication
- Internet Storage Name Service (iSNS)
- iSCSI advantages and disadvantages
- M-series switches
Module 4: NVMe-oF
- Data center bridging (DCB)
- Data Center Bridging vs other technologies
- Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA)
- Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)
- FCoE integrated with FC SAN fabric
- FCoE encapsulation
- Converged network adapters
- Non-Volatile Memory Express over Fabrics (NVMe-oF)
- What is NVME?
- Why NVMe over fabrics
- NVMe based storage end-to-end
- NVMe over the network—Fabric transport options
- Deciding between the NVMe-oF options
Module 5: Host
- Host role within the SAN
- Host and adapters
- N_Port ID Virtualization (NPIV) overview
- HPE Virtual Connect
- Boot from SAN
- Host preparation and install
- Multipath concepts and load balancing
Module 6: SAN Management
- SAN management categories
- B-series SAN management interfaces and tools
- Web tools
- SANnav management software
- C-Series/Cisco Data Center Network Manager
- HPE GreenLake for Storage Fabric Management
- Management protocols and APIs
- Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
- REST(ful) API
Module 7: Long Distance Connectivity
- Why extend the SAN?
- SAN extension technologies
- Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) options
- Fibre Channel over SONET/SDH
- Fibre Channel over IP (FCIP)
- IP network considerations
- FCIP security and encryption
- Buffer-to-buffer flow control
Module 8: SAN Security
- Basic security model
- Attacks and exposures
- Mitigation of risk
- Storage security model
- Data access
- Management security
- B-Series fabric security access control lists
- SCC
- DCC
- FCS
- IP Filter
- B-Series role-based access control (RBAC)
- B-Series authentication options
- Data path and management path security summary
Module 9: SAN Design
- Topologies
- HPE standard supported SAN topologies
- Design using HPE supported SAN topologies
- Single-switch fabric
- Cascaded fabric
- Ring fabric
- Meshed fabric
- Core-edge fabric
- Performance
- Topology data access usage
- ISL oversubscription
- ISL bandwidth aggregation
- Hop latency
- Device attachment points
- Performance guidelines within the SAN
- Backup performance considerations