Summary
This course presents the technical aspects of LSI Logic Engenio Storage Group (ESG) controller products and how they relate to performance within a SAN topology. Students will have the opportunity to adjust tunable parameters to achieve optimal performance. Students will use various IO tools for the labs.

This course is designed to teach the student the skills necessary to analyze input/output from servers and make changes to storage systems to optimize performance. The course concentrates on storage system configuration and tunable parameters.

Prerequisites
Completion of the Advanced Storage Integration course and/or equivalent knowledge of SANtricity 9.x or later management software and ESG storage systems. A basic administrative knowledge of Windows (i.e., using Disk Management, creating & mapping disks and file systems) Solaris and/or Linux operating systems (i.e., adding/deleting packages, formatting, mounting volumes & creating file systems). A working knowledge of RAID technology, Storage Area Networks (SAN) and the Fibre Channel topologies.

Who Should Attend
Individuals responsible for deploying, maintaining or supporting ESG storage systems products.

Length
Three days in length with 40% lecture and 60% hands-on lab.

Course Outline

• Introduction to Disk IO
  After completing this module the student should be able to:
• List the components of the 40/30/30 rule
• Identify disk parameters that impact performance
• Show how disk latencies relate to IO profiles
• Storage performance guidelines for key IO profiles
  After completing this module student should be able to:
• List all of the parameters that can be tuned in a storage system
• Identify important characteristics of IO
• Configure storage system parameters such as RAID and segment size to optimize performance for both a throughput and operations intensive IO environment
• Determine when to enable or disable cache
• IO Tools
  After completing this module student should be able to:
• Identify tools that can be used to generate and measure IO for performance tuning
• State the precautions when using IO generating tools
• Configure and use IOmeter
• Configure and use Storage Performance Analyzer (SPA)
• Configure and use xdd
• Host performance considerations
  After completing this module student should be able to:
• Identify common performance criteria for hosts
• Apply performance concepts to host configurations

Class Hours
Class starts at 9:00 AM. The course dates and times will be included in the confirmation notice you receive from SGI after you register.