Course Description:
This course is designed to provide technical personnel with hands-on experience installing, configuring, and supporting iSCSI Storage Networks.

This practical, hands-on, vendor neutral, class provides all of the information needed to design and manage small iSCSI networks. It also provides an introduction to the performance and design issues involved with larger iSCSI networks.

Course Format
Instructor Led Lecture with Hands-on Labs

Who Should Attend?
Storage Administrators, Systems Engineers, IT Managers and Network Engineers who are responsible for the design, maintenance and troubleshooting of an iSCSI Storage Area Network.

Prerequisites

• Understanding of traditional Networking Technology
• Understanding of traditional SCSI/Disk Technology

Course Outline

Introduction to Storage Concepts

• Storage Evolution
• SAN Concepts
• NAS Concepts
• SAN verses NAS

SCSI Architecture

• SCSI Standards
• SCSI Addressing
  • Targets and Initiators
• SCSI Architecture
  • Connections, disks, tapes
  • SCSI IO Model
  • Protocol Service Model
  • Command Set
• SCSI command and operations
  • CDB, Status
• Identify implementation parameters

iSNS (internet Storage Name Server) and iSCSI Connections

• Login Control & Discovery Domains
• iSCSI Discovery
• iSCSI Session Login
• Query and Registration Services
• State Change Notification
• Terms & Definitions
• Layers & Sessions
• Login, Full Feature Phase
• Connection Termination
• Configuring Target Information
• Initiator Queries a Storage Name Server

iSCSI Error Handling & Recovery

• Where Errors Occur
• Format, Digest, Sequence, & Protocol Errors
• Connection Failure & Session Errors
• Recovery Levels
• Within-task, Within-connection, Within-session, Session Recovery

iSCSI Transport Design & Performance Considerations

• Topological Design Considerations
  • Point to Point
  • IP Switching
• Full vs. Half Duplex
• Command Queuing
  • Frames
• iSCSI Initiator Options
  • iSCSI Microsoft Initiators w/ standard NIC
  • iSCSI HBAs
  • TCP/IP Offload Engines

SAN Security

• Security Standards
• IP Security
  • Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP)
  • Internet Key Exchange (IKE)
• IP Security Concerns
  • Spoofing
  • Sniffing
  • Denial of Service
  • Physical Assault
  • Security Tools
• Antivirus

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