HP Storage: Managing EVA

Course Overview

This 3 day theory and lab-based course explores the technology of the EVA, configuration, management and troubleshooting methods and options. The format of this course is 50% lecture and 50% hands-on.

Audience

Experienced System Administrators responsible for the day to day management of the EVA environment

Skills Gained

At the end of this course the student should have a good understanding of the management and troubleshooting of the EVA environment Topics Covered:

• Virtualisation in the EVA
• Operating system support, VCS code dependencies, hardware configurations and licensing requirements
• Component configurations, FRUs and cabling including SAN connectivity guidelines
• Monitoring of the EVA and an overview of the CAN
• (Cabinet Area Network)
• Configuring and managing the array including disk group, LUN and snap options from the element manager
• Selective presentation of LUNs to hosts and OS specifics
• Disk leveling, distributed sparing, vRAID and sizing considerations
• Troubleshooting the array including performance and environmental considerations
• Event log access and interrogation
• EMU error diagnostics

Examinations

N/A.

Prerequisites

Students should have a sound knowledge of virtualisation, ENSA extended, SCSI, RAID and Fibre Channel technologies.

Course Outline

Day 1

• Course Introduction
• Introduction to the EVA family - models and options
• EVA Hardware - Power supply options
• EVA Hardware - Environmental Monitoring Unit
• EVA Hardware - Cabinet area Network
• EVA Hardware - HSV Controllers - in-depth architecture
• EVA Hardware - M5314 FC drive enclosures
• EVA Hardware - Drive technologies - FC and FATA
• Theory - FC-SW, FC-PP, FC-AL, SPI
• Theory - Virtualisation concepts - Disk Groups
• Theory - Virtualisation concepts - RSS and Leveling
• Theory - Virtualisation concepts - Sparing
• Theory - Virtualisation concepts - Vdisks

Day 2

• Day 1 Review - Q & A
• Theory - Snapshot technologies
• Theory - EVA Management explanation
• Hands On - EVA Hardware
• Hands On - Command View EVA
• Hands On - Creating Vdisks
• Hands On - Adding Hosts
• Hands On - Presenting Vdisks
• Hands On - Failing disk drives
• Hands On - Replacing failed drives
• Hands On - Expanding Disk Groups
• Hands On - Scripting Operations - SSSU
• Hands On - Snapahots/Snapclones
• Hands On - Replication Solutions Manager

Day 3

• Theory - Adding a new Host to a SAN
• Theory - Fibre Channel Fabric
• Theory - Fibre Channel Zoning
• Hands On - Adding a new Host to the SAN
• Hands On - Fibre Channel Zoning
• Hands On - MultiPathing - failover/failback
• Theory - Continuous Access
• Hands On - Continuous Access
• Objectives Review - Q & A
• Feedback forms and close