Powerful 5-day Hands-on Technology Course
Course Description
Storage Area Networking is making it possible for companies to database their entire customer and internal database for quick and easy access over the web. Once that data is available to your customer and partners, that data becomes mission critical and a core asset for your customer. You must protect that asset and ensure it is available 24 hours a day 7 days a week. Fibre Channel is the protocol that drives SANs function.
In this 5-day Fibre Channel Networking class you will learn the details of the Fibre Channel protocols and how to design, manage and troubleshoot a Fibre Channel SANs solution. You will decode Fibre Channel traffic to understand software channels to increase your troubleshooting and skills and increase overall operation of your solution. Learn the skills now don’t wait till your first outage to make the proper decision, you can’t afford waiting till that first outage, the first will most likely be your last.
Course Objectives>
- Design and create a switched fabric Fibre Channel network
- Quickly analyze, isolate, and resolve major SAN problems
- Prepare for two industry SAN certifications in a real-world, equipment-intensive environment
- Create a Fibre Channel switched fabric network
- Use Fibre Channel analyzers to examine live Fibre Channel traffic
- Learn Fibre Channel communications protocol layered architecture
- SAN vs. NAS vs. DAS - the benefits and pitfalls of each
- Examine Fibre Channel layers and communications using a data analyzer
- Define Processes for establishing Fibre Channel arbitrated loop and fabric networks
- Create, examine, and use data analyzer traces from arbitrated loop and fabric Fibre Channel networks
- Design, create, and test a Fibre Channel/SAN to meet specified customer requirements
- Learn when to use switched vs. arbitrated loop vs. point-to-point in your SAN
Intended Audience
Sales Engineers, Technical Marketing, Account Managers, System Engineers, Help Desk professionals and System Engineers.
Course Outline
- Storage Area Networking and Fibre Channel Overview
- Why use Fibre Channel?
- What is Fibre Channel?
- Fibre Channel basics
- Introduction to Fibre Channel topologies
- What are the pieces?
- Fibre Channel vs. SCSI
- Implementing a SAN
- FC-0: The Physical Layer
- A layered architecture
- Fundamental Fibre Channel elements
- Ports
- FC-1 Transmission
- 8b/10b coding
- Running disparity
- Transmission words
- Ordered sets
- Fibre Channel Protocol Analyzers
- Analyzer brands
- Common elements
- Purposes of analyzers
- Setting up the analyzer
- FC-2 Framing and Signaling
- Framing
- Frames - data or link control
- Frame header
- Classes of service
- Addresses
- Login
- Error detection
- FC-3 Common Services
- Well known names
- Port addressing
- Defined services
- FC-4 Upper Layer Protocol (ULP) Mapping
- ULPs and supported protocols
- ULP mapping
- Information Units (IU)
- FCP write
- Sending a SCSI write command
- FCP_XFER_RDY
- FCP Read
- Fibre Channel disks
- IP datagram
- Arbitrated Loop
- Loop basics
- Loop cabling
- FC-AL hardware
- FC-AL
- Loop arbitration
- Switched Fabric
- Fabric login
- Process login
- Zoning
- Zoning fundamentals
- Zoning GUI (Zone Administration Interface)
- Configuring zoning with the command line interface
- Vixel SAN InSite2000 SAN management software
- Creating a SAN
Hands-on Course Labs
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SAN and Fibre Channel Overview and Exercise |
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Fibre Channel Protocol Structure
Review concepts and terms introduced in Fibre Channel layers. |
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Fibre Channel Layers
Become familiar with layers in the Fibre Channel Protocol layered architecture. |
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Using Fibre Channel Analyzers
Gain familiarity with the Ancot, Finisar, and I-TECH Satellite analyzers, and use them to examine Fibre Channel traffic captures. |
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Arbitrated Loop
Review PC and disk storage FC-AL configuration and determine information about the loop. Use HBA software to look at the state of the SAN and the devices on it. Use trace viewer software from any of the three protocol analyzers to view a trace. Follow the sequence of events through the entire loop initialization, arbitration, and data transfer processes. |
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Switched Fabric
Examine traces to see the differences when connecting a single device to a switch versus initializing a loop with multiple devices. |
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Zoning
Configure and enable zoning on a Cisco switch. |
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Cascading Switches |
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