Duration
2 days
Course Overview
This two-day lecture class is designed to examine technologies, products and strategies associated with managing the explosive growth of business data across the enterprise in today’s networked economy. It introduces the basic concepts and terminology associated with networked storage: Storage Area Networks (SANs), Network Attached Storage (NAS), and internet SCSI (iSCSI). It also maps the promise of SANs to the complications of managing islands of information among heterogeneous environments with disparate operating systems, data formats, user interfaces, and limited integration of products from assorted vendors. This course is designed to enable enterprises to be positioned to take advantage of networked storage technology.
Abstract
This two-day lecture class is designed to examine technologies, products and strategies associated with managing the explosive growth of business data across the enterprise in today’s networked economy. It introduces the basic concepts and terminology associated with networked storage: Storage Area Networks (SANs), Network Attached Storage (NAS), and internet SCSI (iSCSI). It also maps the promise of SANs to the complications of managing islands of information among heterogeneous environments with disparate operating systems, data formats, user interfaces, and limited integration of products from assorted vendors. This course is designed to enable enterprises to be positioned to take advantage of networked storage technology.
Audience
Anyone who needs a general introduction to the storage networking environment.
Pre-requisites
- Basic knowledge of IT and storage systems technologies.
Course Objective
After completing this course, you should be able to:
- Discuss the convergence of networked approaches to storage connectivity, including SAN, NAS, and iSCSI
- Describe storage networking facilitated value-add solutions including: disk or tape resource pooling, LAN-free backup, server-less backup, high availability clustering, and disaster tolerance
- Define SAN terminology including: Fibre Channel architecture, data transfer protocols, nodes, ports, fabric, switches, directors, hubs and routers
- Correlate storage networking infrastructure with host and NAS server LUN assignments and device access
- Identify resource access and sharing options and considerations associated with networked storage environments
- Illustrate the usage of the SAN fabric components including Fibre Channel host bus adapters, switches, and directors in establishing a SAN environment
- Relate the role of the SAN Volume Controller in virtualizing and provisioning storage resources from the SAN to attaching host servers.
Key topics
Evolution to Storage Area Networks
- Enterprise Storage Infrastructure Challenges ==> SAN
- Storage Networking Facilitated Solutions
Introdction to Fibre Channel
- Fibre Channel Architecture
- Fibre Channel Physical Model
Storage Consolidation and Host Resource Access
- Storage Consolidation and Host LUN Access
- Resource Access and Sharing
- File Sharing: SAN File System
SAN Infrastructure and Networking Exploitation
- SAN Fabric Components
- Storage Provisioning with the SAN Volume Controller
SAN Management Overview
Programme scope, delivery arrangements and suitability are confirmed during enquiry.