SAN Administration Training

Course Title
SAN Administration Training
Target Audience

IT Professional doing administration, testing, development, maintenance and support activities

for IT hardware and/or software.
IT Professional planning to do CompTIA Storage+ / SNIA SCNP Certifications.
Fresher planning to enter the Storage Networking Domain.

Course Details
SAN Administration Training: Hands-On Lab and discussions on IP-SAN

iSCSI Initiator Lab

Installing iSCSI initiator on Linux system
iSCSI initiator naming and configuration settings
Discovering iSCSI devices on the network
Using CHAP authentication, username & password
Partitioning of SCSI disks (iSCSI) detected on Linux
Creation of filesystems on SCSI disk
Mounting of filesystem and creating files on them
start/stop/restart/status options for iSCSI initiator services
Issues with automatic start of iSCSI initiator and solutions thereof
iSCSI Target Lab
Installing iSCSI target on Linux system
Configuring iSCSI target to restricted initiators
Configuring iSCSI target to restricted network access
Creation of multiple iSCSI targets with LUNs
Creation of storage devices on Linux system for iSCSI LUNs
start/stop/restart/status options for iSCSI target services
Advanced options for iSCSI
Multipath to the same iSCSI Target
Issues with multiple device detection and solutions thereof

SAN Administration Training: Hands-On Lab and discussions on RAID

Creation of RAID1 device using 2 Luns

Creation of RAID5 device using 3 Luns
Checking detailed status of RAID1 and RAID5 Luns
Creation of filesystems on the RAID1 and RAID5 Luns
Write Data to these filesystems
Corruption/Failure of one of the Luns in RAID1/RAID5
Check for RAID to be in degraded mode
Check for Filesystem I/O No impact even after disk failure
Addition of Spares to the RAID device
Rebuilding of RAID
Addition of a hot spare to RAID
Failure of one disk again and automatic rebuilding by RAID
Growing a RAID device
Destroying a RAID device

SAN Administration Training: Hands-On Lab and discussions on Volume Manager

Creation of Physical Volumes on disk devices

Assignment of Physical Volumes to a Volume Group
Check status of Physical Volumes and Volume Group
Creation of Logical Volumes and Checking status
Renaming Volume Groups and Logical Volumes
Creation of Logical Volme with various stripe sizes
Creation of Logical Volumes with Mirroring
Creation & Mounting of File system on the volume
Corruption/Failure of a Physical Volume in the Logical Volume
Converting a Logical Volume to Mirrored volume
Extending a Logical Volume
Reducing a Logical Volume
Removing Logical & Physical Volumes and Volume Groups

SAN Administration Training: Hands-On Lab and discussions on File-systems

Creation of Filesystems
Checking filesystem parameters
Resizing of Filesystem
Issues during resizing and solutions thereof