Hands-On Wide Area Storage & Network Design WAN: Design - Deployment - Performance

Course Description

This highly intense, vendor neutral, Hands-On 5-day course provides an in depth exploration of Wide Area Networking Transport Protocols. It compares existing transport protocols with respect to design and performance considerations. This class is an in depth analysis of the design and performance consideration of building Wide Area Networks built upon TCPIP Gigabit Ethernet, SONET ATM and Fiber Channel transport protocols.

Using a Real-World projects and case studies, you will evaluate an existing infrastructure, create logical designs based upon TCPIP Gigabit Ethernet, SONET ATM and Fiber Channel, create a physical design based upon Ethernet Passive Optical Networking or ATM Passive Optical Networking and then optimize the design for performance.

Students Will Learn

The fundamentals of storage over the Wide Area Network
including
o Direct Attached Storage
o Network Attached Storage
o Storage Area Networking
The need for off site disaster recovery
Synchronous and asynchronous remote disk imaging
Hierarchical Wide Area Network design methodologies
The fundamentals of the transport protocol alternatives
including
o Fibre Channel
o ATM
o SONET
o Gigabit Ethernet
The design and performance considerations of the different WAN
transport protocols
By participating in a WAN design Lab based upon a real customer case study
How to walk away with a demonstrated confidence and competence to go
forward and design Wide Area Optical Networks
And More

Target Audience

This class is directed at Systems Engineers, Sales Support Engineers, IT Managers and Network Engineers who are responsible for the design, maintenance, troubleshooting or Selling an Wide Area Network.

Prerequisites

A basic understanding of telecommunications and basic fiber optics, splicing,
terminating and testing. This information can be obtained in our course(s)
-Hands-On Fiber Optic ISPLAN - Inside PlantLocal Area Cable Networks
-Hands-On Fiber Optic OSP - Outside Plant
or
-Hands-On Fiber ISPOSP Combo-Tech

Course Outline

Module I: Introduction to Wide Area Networking Concepts

o Evolution of Wide Area Networking
o Small Computer System Interface SCSI

SCSI-3 Standards Documents

o SONET Fundamentals
o ATM
o Ethernet Concepts
o SAN Concepts
o NAS Concepts

File Systems

o SAN verses NAS

Module II: TCP/IP Overview

o Concepts

ISCSI

FCIP

IFCP

Infiniband

Gigabit Ethernet

• Terminology
• 10 Gigabit Ethernet Standards
• Optical Media
• Gigabit over Copper
• Loss Budgets
• Gigabit Ethernet MAN
• Gigabit Ethernet over SONET

o Internet Protocol Logical Constructs

iSCSI
Framing
PDU Formats

o Naming and Addressing

World Wide names
IEEE 48 bit MAC Addressing

o Query & Registration Services

iSCSI Session Login
Microsoft iSNS

o Memory Management

iSCSI Session Management

o Error Handling

ISCSI Format Errors

o Protocol Offload Engines
o Standards
o IP 2Gb Host Bus Adapter Installation & Integration

Adaptec ASA 7211F
Qlogic 4010

Module III: Create a Logical Design

o Topological Design Considerations

Naming and Addressing
Point to Point
IP Switching

• Multi Stage
• Mesh

o ISCSI verses Fibre Channel Transport Protocol Design Considerations
o Campus approaches
o Enterprise approaches
o Wide Area Network attachment

Bandwidth Utilization
Via SONET

• OC-1 Frame
• Synchronous Payload Envelope

Via IP
Via WDM

o Hierarchical Design

Access Layer
Distribution Layer
Core Layer

o Students will be given a factious company that owns multiple platforms with existing direct attached storage
o Students will design a Storage Area Network using IP transport protocol.

Module IV: Performance and Optimization

o Command Queuing
o ISCSI vs. Fibre Channel Frames
o SONET Frame
o ATM Cell
o Adjusting Flow Control

Fibre Channel Flow Control
IP Flow Control

o Interrupts
o Performance Metrics

Command Time
Effective Data Rate
Input/Outputs Per Second

o Switch Latency

Fibre Channel Switches
Gigabit Ethernet Switches
Full Mesh Throughput
Full Mesh Latency

o Optimize Device Cache
o Device Driver Tuning
o Benchmarking Tools

Module V: Transport Protocol Design & Performance Considerations

o Full vs. Half Duplex
o Command Queuing
o Frames

Fibre Channel Frames over an IP Network

o iSCSI Initiator Options

iSCSI Microsoft Initiators
Ethernet NIC verses HBA Cards

o TCP/IP Protocol Offload Engines
o Infiniband

Module VI: WAN Security

o Security Standards
o IP Security

Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP)
Internet Key Exchange (IKE)

o IP verses Fibre Channel Security Concerns

Spoofing
Sniffing
Denial of Service
Physical Assault
Security Tools
FCIP Security
IFCP Security
ISCSI Security

o Policies

Physical
Logical
Authentication
Data at Rest
Data in Flight

o Access Control

Content Based
Behavior Based

o Antivirus
o Implementing Zoning
o Soft Zoning Security Risks
o Zoning Security Tools
o Logical Unit Masking
o Surrogate Security
o Topology Security
o Multi Element Topological Zoning
o Frame payload encryption
o Configuration change control

Module VII: Disaster Recovery over the WAN

o Transmission latency

Latency Impact on Disk Performance

• Synchronous
• Asynchronous

Latency Impact on Tape Performance

o Command Queuing
o Data Integrity
o Bandwidth Utilization

Gigabit Ethernet flow control
Fibre Channel flow control
End to end credits

o FCIP
o iFCP
o ISCSI
o ATM/SONET

Synchronous Payload Envelope

o Gigabit Ethernet
o WDM Wave Division Multiplexing

Virtual Fiber

Delivery Method

Instructor led with numerous Hands-On labs and exercises.

Equipment Requirements
(This apply's to our hands-on courses only)

BTS always provides equipment to have a very successful Hands-On course. BTS also encourages all attendees to bring their own equipment to the course. This will provide attendees the opportunity to incorporate their own gear into the labs and gain valuable training using their specific equipment.

Course Length

5 Days