Accelerated SAN Essentials

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• What is a SAN?
• Definition of a SAN?
• Why a SAN?
• HP SAN goals
• SAN considerations
• Storage Consolidation and Expansion
• Efficiency improvements
• High availability
• High speed backup
• Clustering
• DAS, NAS and SAN
• DAS versus NAS versus SAN
• Direct Attached Storage
• Distributed Storage
• Network Attached Storage (NAS)
• Fabrics and the SAN
• Comparing SAN and NAS
• Comparison by purpose
• Tiered storage
• SAN components
• Power-on sequence

• Fibre Channel
• Why not SCSI?
• World Wide Name (WWN)
• Nodes, Ports and Links
• Fibre channel port types
• SAN topologies
• Point-to-point topology
• Arbitrated loop topology
• Arbitrated loop hubs
• Private loop
• Public loop
• Switched fabric topology
• Topology comparison
• Topology summary
• Fibre Channel architecture -- functional levels
• FC-0 Physical level
• Fibre channel cables
• Single-mode fiber
• Multi-mode fiber
• Attenuation
• Dispersion
• Cable bends and damage
• FC-1 Coding layer
• FC-1 Encoding process
• FC-2 -- Signaling Protocol level
• Fibre Channel terminology
• Frame structure
• Frame header
• Class of service
• What is a domain
• FC-3 Common Services
• FC-4 ULP mappings

• Principal switch
• Frame routing
• Load sharing and balancing
• Switches and directors
• B-Series Software components
• B-Series switches
• M-Series fabric switches
• C-Series fabric switches and multilayer directors
• MultiProtocol Routers
• Switch management

• SAN hosts
• Verifying HBA installation - HP-UX
• HBA interrogation
• HP-UX connectivity - ioscan
• ioscan utility output
• HP-UX device naming
• Windows connectivity - Device Manager
• Windows Disk Manager
• Local HBA management
• Multi-path concepts
• Automatic failover
• Load balancing
• Microsoft Multi-Path I/O (MPIO)
• Installing MPIO framework and HP DSM
• Installing DSM manager
• DSM utilities
• MPIO limitations
• Secure Path introduction
• Secure Path agents
• Path definition
• Secure Path for Windows
• Microsoft Secure Path drivers
• Secure Path for HP-UX
• Secure Path Manager
• Using SPM
• Secure Path Management Tool

• Disk storage
• Disk drive connections
• LUN masking
• Array Configuration Utility Overview

• Fibre Channel addressing
• FCAL Loop IDs and AL-PAs
• Addressing public NL_Ports
• Loop ID to ALPH conversion
• Ordered sets and primitives
• Flow control
• Link Services
• FC_AL loop initialization
• Fabric login
• N_Port login sequence
• Well known addresses
• Fabric services
• nsshow
• Registered State Change Notification
• Fabric zoning
• Zone enforcement
• Zoning granularity
• Fabric segmentation

• SAN architecture choices and considerations
• Design process overview
• SAN topologies
• Design using HP SAN topologies
• Tree topology
• SAN infrastructure performance factors
• Data availability levels in a SAN
• Levels of availability iSCSI
• IP storage protocols
• Overview of iSCSI
• iSCI/FC SAN
• iSCSI stack