Chapter 1 - Introduction

•  SAN definition, benefits, and goals
•  High-speed backup and high availability
•  Server and storage consolidation
•  DAS, NAS and SAN concepts and comparisons
•  SAN considerations
•  Tier storage
•  SAN components
•  Host, target, and interconnect device
• haracteristics
•  Power-on sequence

Chapter 2 – Fibre Channel (FC) Basics

• FC terminology, WWNs, port types, topologies, and
• layers
• FC layers elements
• Class of service

Chapter 3 – Fibre Channel Switches

• Switch configuration parameters
• Switches interoperability and TR technology
• Principal switch selection and up/ downstream
• links
• Frame routing within a fabric
• Trunking and port channels
• ILs
• Virtualization within the fabric
• Basic switch management

Chapter 4 – SAN hosts

• Host role within SAN and virtualization
• Converged network adapaters
• Host installation checklist and bus connections
• Dynamic fabric provisioning
• HBA management
• Boot from SAN and load balancing
• Multi-path SAN connections and software
• Multi-path I/O (MPIO) components within OS

Chapter 5 – Disk Targets

• Disk drives and associated technologies
• How disks are connected to controllers
• LUN masking and array management

Chapter 6 – Fibre Channel Advanced

• Fibre channel addressing and reserved addresses
• Frames and transmission building blocks
• Ordered sets
• Primitive signals and sequences
• Flow control and different types of zoning
• Link and fabric services
• Fabric login and segmentation

Chapter 7 – SAN Management

• SAN management choices and considerations
• Technologies driving SAN management
• HPE SAN management today
• SMI-S
• HPE storage essentials
• B/C/H-series management options

Chapter 8 – ISCSI

• IP Storage
• ISCSI stack, packet construction, and name
• convention
• ISCSI connection, hardware options and security
• HPE StoreVirtual as a sample of an ISCSI system

Chapter 9 – SAN Extension

• Long distance cabling
• SN extension reasons
• SAN extension technologies and implementations
• Cables and SFPs
• C/DWDN
• Fibre channel over IP (FCIP)
• FCIP and its role in SAN extension
• FCIP performance and security
• An extension performance
• Brocade Fast Write and Cisco Write acceleration
• Fibre routing implementation in a SAN

Chapter 10 – FCoE/ CECE

• FCoE and CEE standards
• FCoE I/O consolidation and terminology
• FCoE stack and encapsulation
• Lossless Ethernet
• FCIP, ISCSI and FCoE protocols
• CEE and DCBX technology
• FCIP, ISCI and FCoE comparisons

Chapter 11 – SAN Security

• Basic storage security model and access points
• Planning security in a SAN
• Core components for securing SAN data
• management
• Security policies
• Data and management security models
• B/C series RBAC
• RADIUS support
• Security in practice
• Authentication and encryption

Chapter 12 – Data Protection

• Reasons for data protection
• Data protection challenges
• Data classification
• Protection and recovery methods
• Backup types and their differences
• Backup topologies
• Disk and tape solutions
• StoreOnce de-depulication
• Split mirror and snapshot replication
• Synchronous and asynchronous replication

Chapter 13 – Performance

• Factors affecting SAN, disk and drive speed
• performance
• Fibre channel technology and how it affects
• storage performance
• Long distance connectivity
• Performance guidelines
• Planning a disk system that accounts for effects of
• RAID, cache, and chunk size on performance
• I/O profiling
• Performance monitoring

Chapter 14 – SAN Design

• Architecture choices and design considerations
• HPE standard SAN topologies and topology design
• rules
• SAN planning
• Advantages, disadvantages and scalability of
• different topologies
• Data locality
• Topology data access usage
• SAN infrastructure performance factors
• Levels of high availability in SAN architecture
• SAN planning and documentation utilities