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Course Overview This 5-day advanced XP course will build on introductory XP Training and hands on experience with in depth training on the more complex software products utilised with the XP Disk Array Family. Students will understand how to use these products in depth and use them to deliver solutions to real world design questions. Audience Storage administrators Skills Gained - Review the current range of XP Disk Arrays
- In depth overview of the configuration and data layout in an XP array
- Configure an XP for use with external storage
- Understand and use Thin Provisioning to provide virtual capacity to hosts
- Describe the functionality of Business Copy and Business Copy Snapshot
- Describe and configure Continuous Access Synchronous, Asynchronous and Journaling
- Understand the use of Raid Manager with Business copy and Continuous Access
- Understand the functionality and applicability of AutoLUN for performance management and data migration
- Describe the use of Performance Control for applying performance strategies to hosts
- Analyse the behavior of an XP from a performance perspective using Performance Advisor
- Describe the use of Cache Residency (CacheLUN)
- Understand how to apply the functionality of CVAE Tiered Storage Manager to data migration
- Understand the provisioning of virtual disks to multiple operating systems using the CVAE provisioning manager
- Describe the use of CVAE Replication Monitor in conjunction with Business Copy and Continuous Access
Prerequisites - HP StorageWorks XP 1: Configuration and Management (H6773S)
- Understanding of storage technologies and interconnects
- Working knowledge of connecting storage and mounting file systems on storage devices in HP-UX or Windows 2000
- Working knowledge of Fibre Channel
The following courses can be helpful in meeting the prerequisites: - Storage Technologies WBT (U5071AAE)
- SAN Fundamentals WBT (U5527AAE)
Course Outline XP Array Review - XP Disk Array Models
- HP StorageWorks XP Software Portfolio
XP In Depth Analysis - XP Array Terminology
- XP Disk Array Logical View
- XP Crossbar Architecture
- CHA or CHiP
- CSW & Cache Memory
- DKA or ACP
- Shared Memory
- Front end rules of thumb
- Array Groups, Parity Groups and RAID Levels
- Optimizing Performance
- Determine how the array will be used
- Concatenated RAID Groups to distribute I/O Load
- XP Disk Array LDEV Interleaving (Striping)
- Data End-to-End Protection
- Dynamic Spare Disk
- Microprocessors Write/Read Performance
- DKCs, DKUs, B4s, HDUs and HDD numbering
Review of Basic XP Configuration - LUN Configuration & Security Manager XP
- Management Tools for Configuring LUNs
- Configuring LUN Paths & Security
- Volume Management
- Finding Host WWNs
External storage XP - External Storage Concepts and Functionality
- Supported External Storage Devices
- External LUN - Specifications
- CLPR use with External Storage XP
- External Storage Path Modes
- Data Migration using External Storage
- External Storage XP Best Practices
- Powering Off Disk Arrays
HP StorageWorks XP Thin Provisioning - What is Thin Provisioning XP?
- THP operation sequence
- THP pools
- THP usage with other Program Products
- THP BC usage details
- THP usage with partitioning
- THP DMT reads and writes
- THP performance
Cache Residency (formerly CacheLUN) - Cache Residency XP overview
- Cache Residency Modes
- Cache Residency Size Calculations
Performance Control - Performance Control XP overview
- Applying Port and WWN Thresholds
- Performance Control Export Tool
AutoLUN - Auto LUN XP
- AutoLUN Migration
- AutoLUN and LUSE Reserve Source and Target Volumes
- AutoLUN Monitor and Estimate Functions
- AutoLUN Automatic Migrations
- AutoLUN Preset - User Defined Intervals
- AutoLUN Attribute
- AutoLUN Manual Migration Steps
Performance Advisor - Performance Advisor overview and Architecture
- Performance Advisor Hosts and Clients
- Installing and Accessing Performance Advisor
- XP Configuration and Performance Data Collection
- Disk space requirements
- Generating and Scheduling Reports
- Database Configuration
- Performance Estimator
- Utilization Recommendations
- Performance Advisor CLUI
- Report and configuration CLUI shell scripts
Raid Manager - Raid Manager XP
- Creating configuring and using horcm#.conf files
- RAID manager commands
- Using RAID Manager to manage Business Copy and Continuous Access pairs, Manual
- AutoLun Migrations
Business Copy & Business Copy Snapshot - Business Copy and Business Copy Snapshot XP overviews
- Comparison of Snapshot and Business Copy
- XP Business Copy Operations and States
- Business Copy XP & Snapshot XP Full copy vs. Snapshot
- Raid Manager for SnapShot XP
- Restore
- Snapshot Maintenance Operations
- Combining Snapshot XP with Auto LUN XP and LUN Security XP Extension Continuous
Access Synchronous, Asynchronous and Journaling - Continuous Access Synchronous, Asynchronous and Journaling Overviews
- Continuous Access Operations and States
- Using and configuring each type of Continuous Access
- Using Raid Manager and Continuous Access Command View Advanced Edition
- CV AE Overview
- Related Products (Plug-Ins)
- Management Server Architecture and Components
Device Manager Host Agent and Web Client - Installing, starting and stopping the Device Manager Server and Host Agent
- Storage management operations
- Subsystem & volume configuration
- Data management and Report operations
- CV AE CLI
Command View AE Tiered Storage Manager - Tiered Storage Manager Overview and Software Components
- Tiered Storage Data Migration
- What is the effect of Volume Migration?
- How Migration works and effects of Volume Migration?
- Tiered Storage Manager CLI
Command View AE Replication Monitor - Replication Monitor Overview
- Installing and running Replication Monitor
- Replication Monitor Licence
- Replication Monitor Security Management
- Displaying Copy Pair Status, Configurations and Transfer Delay States
- Changing Pair Status
- Configuring and using Alerts
Command View AE Provisioning Manager - Provisioning Manager Functions, Components and Operations
- Managing Storage Pools and Resource Groups
- Managing Hosts, Allocating and unallocating volumes
- Creating, Expanding and Deleting File Systems
- Creating and Deleting Device Files
- Provisioning Plans
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