Duration

4 1/2 days

Course Description

This course educates the student on the abundance of technologies that power today’s data centers. It not only addresses the underlying technology alternatives that connect, virtualize, secure, manage, and store the massive data accumulated by all data center applications, it also concentrates how to minimize the total cost of ownership while simultaneously increasing asset utilization and application performance. This course examines system design points and common components used to architect, construct, and design a storage networked solution aimed at powering any business application.

This course goes beyond passing a certification exam and dives into actual troubleshooting and best practices associated with real storage networking equipment and applications. This course provides you with well-defined and documented industry standard techniques and tools that will assist you in troubleshooting or configuring any storage networking product you experience regardless of vendor.

Objectives

What’s exciting about it, why it’s important, where it’s going?

Learn from an expert storage networking technologist with over 20 years of experience
This detailed seminar includes all of the topics needed to understand Storage Networking concepts and solutions including Ethernet, Fibre Channel, Serial Attached SCSI, SATA, iSCSI, FC over Ethernet, InfiniBand, and PCI Express technologies.
Students will gain a fundamental understanding of the entire Storage Networking industry and all the components that enable today’s and tomorrow’s Data Centers.
Students will gain a fundamental understanding of the how tiered storage enables cost effective Data Centers and all the standards and associations that drive today’s Storage Networking technologies (FCIA, STA, SNIA, etc.).
Topics include Storage Fundamentals which detail SCSI protocol; disk, tape, optical, and Flash devices, file system concepts, RAID (all levels) and JBOD, as well as DAS, NAS and SAN components, configurations, and protocols.
This seminar also details practical and typical SAN Applications including consolidation, backup/restore, and disaster recovery with key insights into issues facing today’s IT departments including interoperability, management, and defining storage requirements such as capacity planning, high availability, and security.
Learn how emerging technologies and can impact future data center designs

Audience

This seminar is recommended for students needing a broad deep knowledge and understanding of Storage and Storage networking concepts, applications, and technologies.
All storage network practitioners
Anyone who designs, implements, manages, specifies or selects Storage Networking technologies
IS/IT technical staff and managers, product developers, systems integrators, systems engineers and technical marketing personnel
Product and project teams that are involved with applications, systems, storage and end users will benefit from this course.
Developers, integrators, engineers, administrators, managers, marketing personnel and others with a need for an understanding of Storage Networking will find this seminar extremely informative.
Anyone involved in storage or data communications networking will understand the similarities and differences between thee environments and will be in position to take on the challenges introduced by Storage Networking.

Course Outline

Course Introduction
Certifications
Basics
Basic Concepts
Networks vs. Storage
Capacity
Network Links
Storage
Servers
Network Devices
DAS, NAS, SAN, FAN & Hybrids
External vs. Internal SANs
Blocks, Files & Objects Overview
Storage
Storage Concepts
Hard Disk Drive (HDD)
Solid State Drive (SSD)
Tape
JBOD
Storage Arrays
LUN Presentation
LUN Aggregation
Dynamic LUN Expansion
Thick & Thin Provisioning
Persistent Binding
RAID levels
Combined RAID Levels
MAID
Storage Technologies
SCSI Storage Overview
P-SCSI
SAS
SATA
Networks
Fibre Channel Technologies
FC Overview
FC Topologies
FC Names & Addresses
FC Names & Addresses NPIV
FC Architecture
FC Architecture Overview
FC-0
FC-1
FC-2
FC-Services
FC-3
FC-4 SCSI & IP
Fibre Channel Components
HBAs and CNAs
FC Hubs & Loop Switches
FC Bridges, Routers & Gateways
FC Fabric Switches
Switches
Switch Fabric Design
Switch Fabric Pathing
Switch Fabric Zoning & LUN Masking
Switch Fabric Router
Switch Virtual Fabrics
FC Animations
IP Storage & iSCSI Technologies
Storage Networking & IP
IP over FC (IPFC)
Internet Fibre Channel Protocol (iFCP)
Metropolitan Fibre Channel Protocol (mFCP)
Fibre Channel over IP (FCIP)
Internet SCSI Protocol (iSCSI)
Data Center Networks –Converged Enhanced Ethernet and Data Center Bridging (CEE & DCB)
Data Center Networks –Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)
Networking Concepts
Introduction to Networking
What is a layered stack?
Data Structures
Physical Transport Networks
Simplex and Duplex
Network Models
Circuit & Packet Switch
Bus, Loop & Expanse
Connection-Oriented vs. Connectionless
Bit Rate, Bandwidth, Latency and Throughput
Ports and PHYs
Names & Addresses
Flow Control
Segmentation & Offload
System Interface Technologies
PCIe
InfiniBand
Storage Network Performance
Performance Prelude
Flow Control
FC Arbitrated Loop
FC Fabric
Fragmentation
Tools
Troubleshooting
Storage Networking Troubleshooting
Storage Networking Environmental
Storage Networking Troubleshooting Tools
Applications
Data Protection
Backup & Recovery Overview
Technologies Overview
Methods & Levels
Snapshots & Replication
Networking
Virtual Tape Library (VTL)
Continuous Data Protection (CDP)
Data DeDuplication
Information Lifecycle Management (ILM)
Tiered Storage
Storage Virtualization
Storage Management
Continuity Management & High Availability
Storage Networking Security
Storage Networking Applications
Green Storage
Green Data
Cloud Storage
Storage Network File Systems
Additional Information
Storage Networking Resources
Futures
Web Links
Practice Tests

This course content and technical level are targeted for professionals working in roles similar to the following:

Product/Application/Service Development
Product/Application/Service Support
Customer Management & Technical Personnel
Sales/Pre Sales/Marketing & Systems Engineers
Technical Project

This is a version-specific reference outline. Confirm the current syllabus and delivery arrangements with EIEIO.