SAS 2.0 PLUS (Serial Attached SCSI)

3 Day Course

SAS Plus Updated to SAS-2.0:
Our existing course, which has been praised by industry experts for its content and delivery, has been updated to include the latest of SAS-2.0. New subjects are Zoning, Multiplexing, 6 Gbps, Training, New Counters and SMP and STP Time Limits. Existing sections of the course have also been upgraded to the new standard.

SAS 2.0 (Serial Attached SCSI) is the logical evolution of SCSI that addresses enterprise storage requirements for larger capacity, density, security, scalability and accessibility, while offering SCSI compatibility along with the reliability, performance and manageability of Parallel SCSI. This 3-day seminar provides students with the most current SAS 2.0 industry developments, directions and data necessary to be fully informed and abreast of the latest advances in this exciting technology. Class participants will examine the development of SAS 2.0 (Serial Attached SCSI) into a storage solution. Students will investigate the ability of SAS 2.0 (Serial Attached SCSI) technology to offer increased customer choice by allowing a single infrastructure to support both enterprise class SAS 2.0 (Serial Attached SCSI) drives and SATA 2.6 (Serial ATA) drives for cost-sensitive applications. Students will examine the latest revision of the SAS 2.0 (Serial Attached SCSI) Standard, and they will learn how the standard addresses the industry needs to enable customers to invest in technology that delivers a scalable feature set, backward compatibility and cost-effective industry-standard storage. This course is ideal for those seeking a detailed understanding of the new technology of SAS 2.0 (Serial Attached SCSI), its workings, and the impact it will have within the industry.

Our newest demonstration uses an analyzer, host bus adapter, expanders, one SATA and two SAS disk drives to fully explore the SAS transport and how it relates to the SCSI and ATA command sets. Emphasis will be placed on the initialization steps of Open Identify, Discovery, expander operations and on the operational steps of Open Address, transfer information and closing. SAS Protocols demonstrated will be SSP, SMP and STP. This demonstration class uses real equipment to ensure real learning.

SAS 2.0 Overview
Why Serial Attached SCSI?
Protocols
   SAS, STP, SSP, SMP
Initiators
Targets
Expanders
Links (Physical vs. Logical)
Ports (1x and 4x)
Physical Layer
Link Layer
Transport Layer
Logical Operation Overview
SAS
STP
SSP, SMP
Physical Layer
Physical Layer Functions
Connectors/Cables
   Single port
   Dual port
   1x wide
   4x wide
Driver/Receiver electrical characteristic
Link Layer
Link Layer functions
8b/10b encoding
OOB
Primitives and usage
Address frames and usage
Link initialization
Power management
Loopback tests
Physical vs. logical links
Scrambling
SSP Connections
STP Connections
Error handling
Transport Layer
Transport Layer Functions
SSP Overview
   Frames/IU's
   IU Sequences
   IU Details
STP Overview
   Flow
     Initiator to expander
     Expander to target
   Flow control
     Buffering
SMP Overview
   Frames
   Flow control
   Functions
State Machines
Descriptions & Operations
   SSP Transport & Link
   SMP Transport & Link
   SAS Link
Expanders
Overview
Resets
Discovery
Power Management.
STP Multi-initiator
Expander communication
Multiple expanders
Latency issues
Errors
Future?
Zoning
Test Patterns
More Primitives
More Counters
6Gbps
Multiplexing
and more...

In addition to a great seminar, we provide the following:

Analyzer comparisons of features and characteristics

KnowledgeTek training manual

Printed copy of the specification

Interface reference book

Handy foldout reference card

CD-ROM of the training manual and specification

SAS Specifications

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