Duration
4 days
Course Description
Provide an overview of storage network and data center networking technology.
Audience
This course is for personnel who are assessing and planning to deploy a storage area network.
Pre-requisites
You should complete:
- Introduction to Storage Networking (SN70MY) or have equivalent knowledge base
This course assumes that you understand a basic SAN knowledge.
Course Objective
- Examine Fibre Channel services such as login processes, name server, addressing, loop initialization and arbitration, frame routing, and registered state change notification as they relate to configuring the SAN infrastructure
- Plan for the implementation of SAN interconnect components, such as Fibre Channel HBAs, the IBM TotalStorage SAN switches and directors (b-type, m-type), and the Cisco directors and switches by reviewing their default configurations and assessing tailoring options
- Plan for the Implementation of resource access control to ensure data integrity by using zoning interfaces in the IBM TotalStorage SAN switches and directors (b-type, m-type), and the Cisco MDS 9000 directors and switches
- Interpret topology, routing, and trunking data displayed by switch management interfaces for a given fabric
- Describe Converged Enhanced Ethernet
- Explain why Converged Enhanced Ethernet is needed
- Describe the additional capability Converged Enhanced Ethernet provides
- Compare the overhead for SCSI traffic using Fibre Channel over Ethernet, TCP/IP, and fibre
- Describe the basics of Fibre Channel over Ethernet
- Explain the advantages and disadvantages of Fibre channel over Ethernet
- Explain the different terminology used with Fibre Channel over Ethernet
- Describe the challenges associated with data center networking and the need for switch network convergence
- Describe the DCN, j-type, b-type, and Cisco switches
- Discuss when one switch solution would be better for a given circumstance
Day 1
- Welcome
Day 3
- Exercise 0: Lab setup and preliminary instructions
- Exercise 1: Brocade switch 2109: Initial configuration
- Exercise 2: Management software installation
- Exercise 3: Brocade Fabric Manager
- Exercise 4: Brocade switch: Zoning configuration
- Exercise 5: Configuring the DS4000 storage subsystem
- Exercise 6: Brocade switch: Zoning configuration update
- Exercise 7: Brocade switch: Merging switches
- Exercise 8: Brocade Fabric Manager: Basic usage
- Exercise 9: DCFM Manager
Day 4
- Exercise 10: Cisco switch: Basic configuration
- Exercise 11: Cisco switch: Management tools installation
- Exercise 12: Cisco switch: VSAN creation
- Exercise 13: Merging Brocade and Cisco fabrics
- Exercise 14: Zoning configuration on Cisco
Programme scope, delivery arrangements and suitability are confirmed during enquiry.