SAN Boot Camp with SNIA Storage Network Foundations
Course Number: S130
Course Description:
This lecture/lab course will give the students a sound foundation in Storage Networking Technology and will prepare the student to take the SNIA Storage Network Foundations Certification exam. The term foundation should not be confused with “basic” as this course teaches students leading edge SAN technologies. In the rapidly evolving world of Storage Area Networking, technologies like iSCSI and SMI-S, which were insignificant two years ago and vitally important.
This course focused on the objectives defined for the SNIA Storage Network Foundations exam. This exam has been carefully constructed to certify that the successful candidate has the knowledge necessary to fulfill their responsibilities as a Storage Administrator. The exam objectives were from a SNIA sanctioned Job Task Analysis, which was used to determine the skills needed for a Storage Administrator.
In addition, this course gives students hands-on experience in working with Switch and Host hardware and software. The students will learn and have hands-on practice zoning Brocade and McData switches. The students will upgrade switch firmware and save switch configurations. Labs on adding new switches to the Fabric and merging Fabrics are also included.
A key component of SAN Administration is understanding and working with Host/Storage access.
Course Format
Instructor Led Lecture with Hands-on Labs
Who Should Attend?
Personnel who need a thorough understanding of current Fibre Channel SAN/Storage Technologies.
Prerequisites
- Understanding of traditional Networking Technology
- Understanding of traditional SCSI/Disk Technology
Course Outline
Describe storage performance and data protection strategies including RAID, caching, and connectivity technology
Differentiate between DAS, SAN, NAS, CAS and IP Storage environments
Describe the SNIA Shared Storage Model
Identify standards organizations
Identify disk components (actuate, platter, head, sector, track, zone)
Compare and contract Disk Technologies between ATA, SATA (Serial ATA), SCSI and SAS (Serial Access SCSI)
Describe features and functions of Mid-Tier and High-End Storage Arrays
Describe features of Disk Controllers (cache, protection)
Describe selection criteria for a tiered storage architecture
Describe SCSI (architecture, connections, disks, tapes)
Identify advantages and disadvantages of using SCSI (distance, speed, connectivity and scalability over disk technology)
Describe SCSI as protocol (initiators, targets and logical units)
Demonstrate understanding of SCSI command and operations concepts
Identify implementation parameters (Parallel, FC, iSCSI)
Describe FC SAN general concepts (architecture and basic terms including port types, WWN, components (HBA, Hub, Bridge/Router, Switch, Director, Cable, GBICs, etc.)
Identify advantages and disadvantages of using FC SAN (distance, speed, connectivity and scalability)
Describe Topologies (Point to Point, arbitrated loop, switched fabric)
Describe FC Protocol, service classes, addressing
Describe Fabric based services (virtualization, authentication, file sharing, replication, extension, FAIS)
Given a scenario, identify distance extension considerations (Latency of Equipment, Distance, Network, Retransmission, Bandwidth Reservation, Cost, WAD)
CLI Commands
Switch GUI
Brocade
McData
Brocade
McData
Brocade
McData
Brocade
Describe IP storage general concepts (Network storage, block, file, FCIP, iFCP, iSCSI, iSNS, components)
Identify advantages and disadvantages of using IP Storage (distance, speed, connectivity, scalability, security)
Describe iSCSI implementation concepts
Demonstrate understanding of IP Storage based applications (Replication, Boot from network,
Demonstrate understanding of implementation risks (managing configuration, network)
Describe selection criteria for IP Storage Solutions
Describe NAS concepts (filing, components, O/S)
Identify advantages and disadvantages of using NAS technology
Compare and contrast NFS and CIFS protocols
Describe NAS operating system characteristics
Given a scenario, identify of NAS backup and recovery risks
Define Storage Virtualization (abstraction, transparency, taxonomy)
Identify Advantages, Disadvantages and Benefits (both application and physical levels)
Compare Storage Virtualization Approaches (host, network, storage device)
Describe virtualization management strategies (in-band and out-of-band)
Describe Storage Virtualization Taxonomy elements (Block, Disk, Tape, File System, File/Record)
Describe virtualization services (Snap, Copy, Replication)
Identify criteria for selecting virtualization services
Describe Storage Management Components (capacity, configuration, LDM, Storage Network Managers, device managers, integration )
Identify the advantages and disadvantages of effective storage management.
Describe storage management instrumentation points in the context of the SNIA storage object model
Given a scenario, identify SMI-S relationship to managed elements
Describe SMI-S Client and Object Manager relationships
Identify the SMI-S product certification process (ICTP)
Software Architecture: Device Drivers, OS, File Systems
Qualifying the environment
Examining the environment
Host Operating system
HBA/HBA Device Driver
Cabling
Switch
Storage Arrays
Describe Data Management Concepts (Backup & Recovery, Information Lifecycle, )
Compare backup techniques (Network, LAN-free, Snapshot, Application Server-free, Server-free, NDMP, backup to disk, disk to disk, tape virtualization)
Given a scenario, identify backup design trade-off as they relate to Scalability, Manageability, Performance
Given a scenario, identify the advantages and disadvantages in using replica, snapshot and split mirror Disk Backup techniques
Given a scenario, identify how the emergence of SMI-S Policy based management can be an advantage
Given a scenario, identify the role infrastructure resolution in backup recovery and disaster recovery
Given a scenario, identify steps using high availability and disaster recovery in a SAN infrastructure
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Pricing and Schedule
Table 3 - Dates
$2995
5 days
Natick, MA
July 23-27, 2007
Oct. 1-5, 2007
Dec. 17-21, 2007
Feb. 11-15, 2008
April 7-11, 2008
June 16-20, 2008
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