Hands-On Lab and discussions on IP-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