Storage Area Networking (SAN) Performance Monitoring and Management
Storage Area Networking (SAN) Performance Monitoring and Management is a 2-day training course that covers key aspects of SAN performance monitoring and management.
Storage Area Networking (SAN) Performance Monitoring and Management training course provides attendees with the foundational knowledge necessary to perform essential job responsibilities in Storage Area Network (SAN) environment performance.
Participants will learn about the process of tracking and collecting key SAN performance metrics to pinpoint potential problems and identify opportunities for improvement. To deliver on SAN performance optimization and tuning potential, organizations need to recognize key challenges, understand their impact, and implement strategies that help to unlock the power of SAN performance including: hosts, switches, storage elements, and storage devices that are interconnected using a variety of technologies, topologies, and protocols.
From hosting applications to serving large multimedia, enterprises are counting on their SAN infrastructure to deliver unmatched end-user experience. To provide such exceptional experiences, the application availability and the performance have to be greatly enhanced. Application performance might be directly linked to storage latency.
Learning Objectives
- Differentiate among storage models, and describe the benefits of SANs
- Define SAN performance management issues and requirements
- Differentiate among performance tools used in charting/presenting/measuring accurate
- Identify components of a SAN performance monitoring and management
- Differentiate among SAN protocol performance
- Identify how to implement tunning measures in a SAN
Who Should Attend
This course is designed for technicians, engineers and managers seeking an accelerated learning path that includes both conceptual knowledge of SAN performance monitoring and management. Storage managers, storage administrators, administrators for SAN, backup/recovery, and disaster recovery, Storage consultants and practitioners.
Course Agenda
Storage Area Networking (SAN) Performance Monitoring and Management
- Quick Overview of Storage Area Networking (SAN)
- SAN Key Concepts
- SAN Architecture
- SAN Protocols
- SAN implementation Best Management Practices
- Review of Storage Capacity Planning Process
- SAN Security, Availability and Performance Considerations
SAN Performance Management Characteristics
- Tools and Methods to Resolve SAN Issues and Maintain Optimal Performance
- Method of Reviewing, Observing, and Managing SAN Operational Workflow
- Availability and Performance of SAN Infrastructure
- Manual or Automated Management Techniques
SAN Performance Monitoring and Management
- Holistic View of SAN Performance
- Monitoring of all Storage Components
- Different Levels of Storage Performance
- Different OS’s, Storage Protocols, and Tools
- Monitoring from the VM
- VM Guest Level Performance
- Physical Host Level Performance
- Storage Tier Performance
- Monitoring of Storage Performance from the Client-end
- Monitoring from the storage tier
- Queue depth, I/O Sizes and Traffic patterns
- Sequential vs non-sequential I/O
- IOPs
- Network Performance
- Storage Policy Based Management
SAN Performance Measurements
- Effective Performance Measurements
- SAN Performance Metrics and User Experience Monitoring
- SAN Performance Tools
- Charting, Presenting and Measuring Accurate Performance
- Slow Drain Devices and Saturation
- Parameter settings for Hosts, Switches and Other Storage Infrastructure
- Storage Forecasting and Storage Reports
- Storage Summary, RAID Latency, Growth Trend, RAID IOPS, RAID Capacity Utilization, and many more.
Impact of Hardware on the SAN Performance
- Performance Considerations with Offload Adapters (e.g., NVMe)
- Performance Considerations with Storage protocols
- Fibre Channel and Ethernet
- RoCEv2, iSCSI, and NVMeoTCP Addressing Workload Constraints
- Storage Hardware Acceleration
- Hardware Acceleration Benefits
- Hardware Acceleration Requirements
- Hardware Acceleration on SAN Devices
- Hardware Acceleration Considerations
SAN Performance Optimization and Tunning
- SAN Performance Evaluation
- Comparison of SAN Protocol Performance Concerns
- Tuning for Optimal Performance
- Addressing Throughput and Latency
- Analysis Bottleneck
- Unexpected Changes in Workload
- Application Availability (e.g., multiple data paths)
- Application Performance (e.g., off-load storage functions, segregate networks, etc.)
- Storage Utilization and Effectiveness (e.g., consolidate storage resources, provide tiered storage, etc.)
- Data Protection and Security