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: Fiber 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

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 configuration

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
• 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

Lab 0: HPE vLabs Access

• Access HPE vLabs

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 (optional)

  • Fibre Channel levels
  • Class of Service
  • Identify the frame format
  • Port types
  • Well known addresses
  • 24-bit addressing
• Configuring ports

  • Port types
  • Viewing the port configuration
• Persistent portdisable
• Configuring a port name
• Configuring a port speed
• Deny F-port

  • Fabric name

Lab 3: FC – Routing

• Preparation
• Preparation and locating the principal switch in a fabric
• Enabling and disabling trunking on switches

Lab 4: Fabric Zoning

• Verifying storage presentation
• Clearing the zoning configurations
• Setting default zone and Configuring
• WWN zoning

  • Adding a second Windows zone using Web Tools

Lab 5: SANnav Preparation

• Preparation
• Starting the SANnav
• Setting up discovery

Lab 6: Long Distance

• Working with Long Distance settings from the CLI
• Working with Long Distance settings from Web Tools

Lab 7: Configuring FCIP

• Initial configuration tasks—Working with switches
• Initial configuration tasks—Connectivity and domain IDs
• Assigning IP addresses to ethernet ports
• Creating an FCIP tunnel
• Verification of FCIP configuration
• Deleting FCIP Configuration

Lab 8: FC-FC routing and Virtual Fabrics

• Preparation—Fabric and services

  • Results verification
• Working with FC-FC routing (READ-ONLY LAB)
• Working with Virtual Fabrics
• Cleaning

Lab 9: Security Administration and Configuration

• Connection control policies
• Switch Connection Control (SCC)
• Device Connection Control (DCC)
• Testing DCC policy
• Fabric Configuration Server (FCS)
• DH-CHAP authentication
• IP Filter Policy
• Creating users for SANnav
• Creating a new user account in Web Tools and CLI

Lab 11: Monitoring

• Checking external storage
• Configuring Iometer
• Real time performance monitoring
• Flow monitoring
• Setting threshold policies (MAPS)
• Reports

Lab 12: Troubleshooting

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