Detailed Course Outline
Module 1: Installation and Configuration
- HPE B-series SAN portfolio
- Installation and configuration of a new switch
- Switch configuration procedure
- Activate a license feature
- Setting names
- Configuring syslog support
- Checking switch status
- Configuring 10 Gb/s Fibre Channel on supported platforms
- Taking a configuration backup
- Booting a switch
Module 2: Fibre Channel Theory
- Describe the Fibre Channel networking model
- Different class of service
- FC frame structure
- Flow control
- Recall the format of a WWN
- Fibre Channel topologies
- Port types
- Fibre Channel addressing
- NPIV technology and use-cases
Module 3: FCP Routing and Trunking
- Fabric terminology
- Principal switch
- Fabric initialization
- Frame routing—FSPF (Layer 2 routing)
- Exchange-based routing
- ISL Trunking
- Inter-chassis links
- Routing over trunks
- Trunks monitoring
- Deskew parameter
- Types of trunking
Module 4: Fibre Channel Services
- Link services
- Fabric services
- Well-known addresses
- Simple Name Service
- Fabric login sequence
- Zoning overview and types
- Zoning management and administration
- Default zoning
- Zone fabric locking
- Zoning granularity
- Adding a new B-series switch to a zoned fabric
- Zoning best practices
- Peer Zoning
- Target-driven peer zoning
- QoS zoning
Module 5: NVMe-oF
- What is NVME?
- Why NVMe over fabrics
- HPE Storage Networking—how NVMe improves performance
- NVMe over fabrics (NVMe-oF) summary
- NVMe over FC (FC-NVMe)
- NVMe over Ethernet
Module 6: Long Distance Connectivity
- SAN extension technologies and implementations
- Wave Division Multiplexing (WDM) overview
- CWDM
- DWDM
- FC over SONET/SDH
- Fabric OS Extended Fabrics
- Buffer to buffer flow control
- Configuring Extended Fabrics
- Trunking over long distance fabrics
- Protective switching
- Buffer-to-buffer credit allocation and management
Module 7: FCIP
- Fibre Channel over IP (FCIP) and its role in SAN extension
- FCIP circuits, trunking, and tunnels
- FCIP performance
- FCIP compression
- FCIP selective acknowledgement
- FastWrite and Open Systems Tape Pipelining
- Adaptive rate limiting and FCIP QoS
- FCIP best practices
- FCIP advantages and disadvantages
- Configure and verify a VE_port-to-VE_Port connection
- FCIP performance and security
- FCIP analysis
- B-Series distance extension product lines
Module 8: FC-FC Routing and Virtual Fabrics
- Fibre Channel-to-Fibre Channel routing (FC-FC routing)
- SAN scaling
- LSAN zones
- Fabrics and EX_Port
- EX_port trunking
- Integration of Fibre Channel routing and FCIP
- Logical fabrics and ISLs
- Virtual fabrics theory
- Fabric and Domain ID
- Virtual fabric configration
Module 9: Security
- Connection control (SCC) policy
- Device connection control (DCC) policy
- Fabric configuration server (FCS) policy
- Authentication policy for fabric elements
- Security policy distribution and consistency
- Identify IP filter policies (IPFILTER)
- B-series role-based access control (RBAC)
- Predefined and user-defined roles
- Setting password rules
- Authentication options and multi-factor authentication
- Authentication policy for fabric elements
- Switch and device authentication policy modes
- Setting up the authentication protocol (FCAP)
- Security and encryption
- In-flight compression and encryption
Module 10: Management
- Technologies driving SAN management
- B-series SAN management interfaces and tools
- Web tools
- SANnav management software
- HPE GreenLake for Storage Fabric Management
- Simple network management protocol (SNMP) overview
- B-series SNMP Fabric OS commands
- REST(ful) API theory and usage
Module 11: B-series Performance Monitoring
- Fabric Vision technologies
- Flow Vision overview
- Flow definition and monitoring and management
- SIM port concept
- IO insight and VM Insight
- Monitoring and alerting policy suite (MAPS) introduction
- MAPS rules, policies, and dashboard
- Fabric performance impact (FPI) monitoring
- Configuration and operational monitoring policy automation services suite (COMPASS)
- Other features
- Discuss Fabric Vision licensing
Module 12: Maintenance and Troubleshooting
- Back up and manage configuration files
- Firmware upgrade
- Troubleshooting techniques
- Common troubleshooting problems and tools
- End-to-end troubleshooting
- SAN analytics
- Features and capabilities
- Traffic optimizer
- Self-healing
- Use cases
- Instant visibility of SAN health
Module 13: SAN Design
- Topology choices and design considerations
- HPE standard supported SAN topologies
- Single-switch fabric
- Cascaded fabric
- Ring fabric
- Meshed fabrics
- Core-edge fabric
- Initial cost of deployment
- SAN performance factors
- Topology data access usage
- ISL oversubscription
- Hop latency
- Device attachment points
- Data locality
- Performance guidelines within the SAN
- Recommendations for switch ISL connectivity
- Levels of high availability in SAN architecture
- Single point of connectivity knowledge
- HPE SAN Design Reference Guide
- Infrastructure documentation