Managing Storage Area Networks

Managing Storage Area Networks course provides students with a five-day, instructor-led-training and hands-on, multi-vendor environment in which they learn how to configure a SAN infrastructure. It is an excellent learning opportunity for SAN professionals to aid in understanding current SAN technologies and applies those constructs towards the implementation of a SAN solution for their environments. Students will perform tasks on various hardware components to configure a working SAN. The course introduces students to protocols, design, security, and approaches to maintaining a SAN environment.

Managing Storage Area Networks course provides students with a five-day, instructor-led-training and hands-on, multi-vendor environment in which they learn how to configure a SAN infrastructure. It is an excellent learning opportunity for SAN professionals to aid in understanding current SAN technologies and applies those constructs towards the implementation of a SAN solution for their environments. Students will perform tasks on various hardware components to configure a working SAN. The course introduces students to protocols, design, security, and approaches to maintaining a SAN environment.

Students who can benefit from this course:

• • System Administrators, Storage Administrators, and Technical Support Personnel responsible for architecting, implementing, and supporting hardware and software components found in a SAN environment

Audience
Course Topics Introduction to Storage Area Networks

• Understand SAN topologies
• Identify SAN components
• Use Solaris commands to evaluate a Fibre Channel SAN infrastructure
• Evaluate Solaris Device pathing

Storage Area Network Concepts

• Identify WWN, Port IDs, and Domain IDs
• Understand the switch settings most commonly used in a SAN
• List the Fabric protocols

Storage Area Network Design, Security, and Data Services

• Use zoning on a FC switch
• Understand advantages of LUN masking
• Develop SAN architecture using design criteria
• List data services and influencing design of SAN

Managing Brocade Fibre Channel Switches

• List basic functions and components
• Identify Switch capabilities
• Use Management Tools
• Install Brocade switches
• Perform GUI configuration
• Perform Command Line configuration

Managing Cisco Switches

• List basic functions and components
• Identify Switch capabilities
• Use Management Tools
• Install Cisco switches
• Perform GUI configuration
• Perform Command Line configuration

SAN Fabric Managers

• List basic functions and components
• Identify the role of a Fabric Manager
• Use management tools
• Monitor FC switches
• Manage a multi-switch SAN

Internet Protocol (IP) based Storage Area Networks

• List benefits of IP as a Storage Transport
• Describe common usage of IP as a Storage Transport
• List protocols used
• Discuss fundamentals of iSCSI
• Configuration of iSCSI
• Trouble shoot iSCSI

Course Objectives

• Design and Architect SAN environments
• Configure Brocade and Cisco Fibre Channel Switches
• Understand and implement IP as a storage transport