Managing HPE B-Series Fibre Channel Switches (H41BPS) - Lab Topology

Lab 1: Switch Exploration

• Connecting to a fabric switch using web tools
• Exploring main web tools sections
• CLI basics
• Basic switch status commands
• Viewing port status
• Enabling/disabling the switch
• Enabling/disabling a port
• Changing the switch domain ID
• Backing up system configuration settings

Lab 2: Administration and Configuration

• Fibre Channel theory
• Identifying port types
• Viewing port configuration
• Persistent port disabling
• Configuring a port name
• Denying F-port mode

Lab 3: FC – Routing

• Preparation and locating the principal switch in a fabric
• Enabling and disabling trunking on switches
• Display link cost
• Display FSPF information

Lab 4: Fabric Zoning

• Clearing the zoning configurations
• Setting default zone
• Configuring WWN zoning via CLI and web tools

Lab 5: SANnav Preparation

• Starting the SANnav
• Setting up discovery

Lab 6: Long Distance

• Working with long distance settings from CLI

Lab 7: Configuring FCIP

• Initial configuration tasks – connectivity and domain IDs
• FCIP tunnel configuration

Lab 8: Virtual Fabrics

• Preparation – fabric and services
• Preparation – ports
• Enabling virtual fabrics
• Configuring logical switches
• Relocating ports
• Configuration verification
• Cleanup

Lab 9: Security Administration and Configuration

• Creating a switch connection control policy
• Creating a device connection control policy
• Creating new switch user accounts in SANnav
• Creating user accounts in web tools
• Working with user privileges
• Testing the effect of RBAC

Lab 11: Monitoring

• Checking external storage
• Configuring Iometer
• Performance Monitoring in SANnav
• Real-time and historical performance data collection/investigation
• Flow monitoring
• Setting threshold policies (MAPS)
• Performance reports

Lab 12: Troubleshooting

• Using CLI to obtain information about different switch health aspects
• Using D_port functionality