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

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

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

Hands-On Lab and discussions on File-systems

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