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Managing HPE B-Series Fibre Channel Switches
Schulungsinhalt
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
Zielgruppe
This course is ideal for intermediate to advanced IT professionals seeking a learning path that includes knowledge of FC-SAN technologies and experience in HPE B-series SAN environments
Seminarziele
After completing this course, you should be able to:
- Present the B-series portfolio
- Perform an out-of-box initial configuration
- Configure initial security
- Verify switch status
- Identify important fabric parameters
- Perform common administrative tasks
- Explain chassis, fabric, and switch names
- Discuss the default port name
- Describe the Fibre channel networking model
- Recall the format of a WWN
- Describe Fibre Channel topologies
- Identify Fibre Channel addressing
- Identify the node and port types
- Identify the different class of service
- Describe the frame structure
- Describe the role of the principal switch
- Identify exchange-based routing
- Describe in-order delivery (IOD)
- Manage interswitch links (ISL)
- Describe the benefits of trunking
- List the fabric services well-known addresses
- Explain zoning
- Explain quality of service (QoS) SID/DID traffic prioritization in the fabric
- Discuss NVMe-oF standard, types, and building blocks
- Discuss SAN extension technologies and implementations
- Explain the use and effects of buffer (BB) credits on distance and speed
- Discuss the different long distance settings and the supported distances for B-series switches
- Identify when a long distance license is required
- Describe the use of long wave SFPs
- Explain the limitations of long distance connection when using trunking
- Describe Fibre Channel over IP (FCIP) and its role in SAN extension
- Describe FCIP circuits, trunking, and tunnels
- Describe adaptive rate limiting and FCIP QoS
- Configure and verify a VE_Port-to-VE_Port connection
- Discuss FCIP performance and security
- Explain the Fibre Channel-to-Fibre Channel routing (FC-FC routing)
- Describe Fibre Channel-to-Fibre Channel routing terminology, concepts, and theory
- Explain virtual fabric terminology
- Describe switch connection control (SCC)
- Explain device connection control (DCC)
- Describe fabric configuration server (FCS)
- Explain authentication policy for fabric elements
- Distinguish the difference between the security policies
- Apply policy distribution
- Identify IP filter policies (IPFILTER)
- Explain in-flight encryption
- Describe technologies driving SAN management
- Discuss HPE B-series SAN management today
- List Fabric Vision technologies
- Talk about Flow Vision
- Describe monitoring and alerting policy suite (MAPS)
- Discuss Fabric Vision licensing
- Back up and manage configuration files
- List the steps for performing a successful firmware upgrade
- Describe troubleshooting techniques
- Manage a data gathering process
- List common SAN problems and their solutions
- Outline topology choices and design considerations
- Describe SAN performance factors
- Identify levels of high availability in SAN architecture
Vorkenntnisse
Before attending this course, you should have:
- A good technical understanding of networking and storage concepts
- Basic experience in managing Windows systems
- Completed Introduction to SAN (H41BQS) or have knowledge of SAN fundamentals
Seminardauer
4 Tage
Preis
Präsenzseminar/FLEXINAR®:
3000,00 € (3,570,00 € inkl. 19% MwSt.)
LIVEINAR®:
3000,00 € (3,570,00 € inkl. 19% MwSt.)
Individual Training: Preis auf Anfrage
Inhouse Training: Preis auf Anfrage
Seminarnummer
SV-9898
Ihr Berater
Martin Heubeck
Group Leader Sales
Martin Heubeck
Group Leader Sales
- martin.heubeck@protranet.de
Beratungszentrale und Buchungshotline:
- 0800 3400311
- beratung@protranet.de
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Formate
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