BrightStor SAN Manager and SAN Designer: Implementation and Administration

Overview:

Implement and administer BrightStor ® SAN Manager and design your SAN with BrightStor ® SAN Designer. This class presents demonstrations and hands-on exercises to teach you to manage your enterprise resources effectively, monitor automated responses to predefined events and control the overall performance of your SAN environment. In the process, you will also practice creating and monitoring zones, sending messages and generating reports. By taking this course you will be prepared to design, set up and configure your SAN to the specific needs of the business environment, avoiding common mistakes that could stall progress and negatively impact your budget. Participants will learn how to use BrightStor SAN Manager tools to save time by automating repetitive tasks that improve performance measurably.

Description:

Who Should Attend:
Storage Administrators
Storage Resource Managers
System Administrators
System Engineers
Enterprise Architects

You Will Learn How To:

Implement BrightStor SAN Manager
Discover a SAN
Explore and design a SAN
Implement zone management
Implement event management
Generate reports

Monitor SAN performance

Manage the Common Object Repository (COR)

Course Agenda:
Day 1

Module 1 – Implement BrightStor SAN Manager

Install BrightStor SAN Manager

Install the SAN Proxy Agent

Perform a Discovery

Create an Object

Module 2 – Manage Enterprise Storage Infrastructure

Manage SAN Zones

Manage SAN Security

Module 3 – Implement Event Management

Create an Event

Customize Event Console Logs

Create Event Console Messages

Manage Message Records Actions

Export from and Import to Event Management Databases

Module 4 – Manage the Common Object Repository
Manage Objects in the Common Object Repository

Day 2

Module 5 – Manage SAN Reports

Generate SAN Manager Reports

Module 6 – Implement BrightStor SAN Designer

Install BrightStor SAN Designer

Module 7 – Perform Design Checks

Discover a SAN with the SAN Discovery Wizard

Verify SAN Design

Module 8 – Modify SAN Design
Add HBAs to a SAN

Add Hosts to a SAN

Add HBAs to a Host

Connect HBAs to a Switch

Add Storage Devices to a SAN

Assign an Out-of-Band IP Address to a Switch

Add Zones to a SAN

Day 3
Module 9 – Validate SAN Design
Run the Design Check

Correct SAN Design

Module 10 – Compare SAN Designs

Compare a SAN and a SAN Drawing

Compare SAN Drawings

Generate a Compare Report

Generate a Wiring Change Report

Module 11 – Generate Hardware and Zoning
Generate Hardware Reports

Generate Zoning Reports

Module 12 – Import and Export SAN Designs
Export a SAN Design
Import a SAN Design