Audience: Software Engineers or administrators
who are already working or planning to work on products based on iSCSI
technology
Prerequisites: Basic understanding of Computer Architecture
and Networking
Delivery Method: Classroom Training and Hands on Labs
Audience Size: Not more than 15 attendees
Duration: 3 Days
Course Content:
| Day 1 |
Day 2 |
Module 1: Storage Technology Overview
- Basics of disk storage, block storage, RAID
- Hardware and software components from the storage stack
- No single point of failure configurations
- Quick overview of LVM, file-system, simple cluster
- Introduction to SAN (Storage Area Network) and NAS (Network Attached Storage)
- Introduction to Storage Array Architecture and Functionality
Module 2: SCSI
Architecture Model
- SCSI evolution –
SCSI-1, SCSI-2, SCSI-3
- Overview of SCSI-3
layered architecture model
- SCSI basic concepts
- SCSI Remote
Procedure Call Model (requirements from a transport layer protocol)
Module 3: SCSI Protocol
- SCSI Command sets
(all devices – mandatory commands, commands for block devices)
- Brief introduction
to SCSI reservations
- Control/data
flow of a typical read and write operation
|
Module 4: iSCSI Protocol
- iSCSI architecture
and basic concepts
- SCSI Mapping
- iSCSI Phases of
operation, PDU formats, Control flow
- Error Handling and
Recovery
- iSCSI Security
Considerations
- CHAP authentication
- iSNS
Module 5: iSCSI SANs Overview
- Practical
Considerations while implementing iSCSI SANs
- Comparison with
Fibre Channel SANs
Module 6: Snapshots and Backup
- Concept of Snapshot as
a point in time copy
- Different snapshot
approaches/mechanisms
- Application
consistency related issues with snapshots and how they are resolved
- Quick overview of
backup
|
|
Day3 - Hands on Labs
|
- Tools: VMware Server Based Virtual Machines running on PCs networked on a LAN, Ubuntu Linux, iSCSI Enterprise Target, open-iscsi initiator for Linux, Wireshark protocol analyzer, sg_utils, scu (scsi utility), iometer, Windows iSCSI initiator
- Configuring storage using RAID and LVM technologies
- Presenting iSCSI Logical Units, Initiator Access Control (LUN Masking)
- Creating and presenting snapshots
- Performing Device Discovery from Windows, capturing protocol trace using Wireshark, protocol trace analysis for commands sent by the initiator (CDB level) and corresponding responses from the target
- Accessing the target from Linux initiator
- Use of sg_utils and scu from Linux and Windows to perform various CDB level operations
- Using iometer for performance baseline and load testing
|
(C) 2008-09 Sound Paradigm Software Engineering Services Pvt. Ltd.
|
|
