Storage Fundamentals - Self-Study Course
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Description
The Storage Fundamentals course provides students with a broad survey of the current state of network storage. By focusing on concepts, terms, and technologies and avoiding product-specific features, this course provides foundation knowledge that is applicable to the further study of storage products.
Students who can benefit from this course:- Entry-level Storage Administrators
Audience
Course Topics Storage Overview
- State the significance of the storage industry today
- State Sun's vision of storage
- Identify the features of Sun's vision of storage
- Define the Sbus and PCI Bus
- Define integrated development environment (IDE) devices
- Def…
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The Storage Fundamentals course provides students with a broad survey of the current state of network storage. By focusing on concepts, terms, and technologies and avoiding product-specific features, this course provides foundation knowledge that is applicable to the further study of storage products.
Students who can benefit from this course:- Entry-level Storage Administrators
Audience
Course Topics Storage Overview
- State the significance of the storage industry today
- State Sun's vision of storage
- Identify the features of Sun's vision of storage
- Define the Sbus and PCI Bus
- Define integrated development environment (IDE) devices
- Define SCSI technology and circumstances under which it is an appropriate data transfer technology to utilize based on performance, availability, and cost
- Correlate the SCSI standard to images of SCSI connectors
- Define the Fibre Channel Bus and list its advantages and limitations
- Define the types of Fibre Channel, including Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop (FC-AL), and list the advantages and limitations of each
- Correlate the Fibre Channel standard to images of Fibre Channel connectors
- Define Host Bus Adaptors (HBA) and versions (including PCI and SBus) and determine which of the versions is more appropriate in a given circumstance
- Define gigabit interface converters (GBICs)
- Identify advances in GBIC technology embodied in the small form factor GBIC compared to the standard
- Define a Hub and its use with storage
- Define the purpose of switches and identify the circumstances under which the use of a switch is more appropriate than a hub
- Define the types of cabling and distinguish their advantages and limitations
- Identify the definition of an array storage system and a JBOD
- Identify standard array components
- Consider array selection criteria based on capacity, speed, availability, cost, multipathing, and scalability
- Describe redundant array of independent disks (RAID) and define the features that make up a RAID configuration
- Describe RAID levels and specific applications and performance characteristics
- Define and differentiate between software and hardware implementation of RAID with respect to performance
- Identify two types of tape technologies, digital linear tape (DLT) and linear tape open (LTO), and state the purpose of each
- Identify standard tape library components, including tape, tape drives, robotics, controllers, and I/O subsystems
- Define the criteria associated with tape libraries and how they are implemented, including speed and capacity
- Describe the use and structure of NAS, especially in relation to its advantages and limitations
- Describe the use and structure of DAS, especially in relation to its advantages and limitations
- Describe the use and structure of SAN, especially in relation to its advantages and limitations
- Define storage virtualization
- Describe network data replication and its advantages and limitations
- Describe point-in-time copy and its advantages and limitations
- Describe the issues related to resource management and the types of software solutions available
- Describe the issues related to storage network management and types of the software solutions available
- Describe the issues related to component management and the types of software solutions available
Course Objectives
- Define and differentiate between types of network storage configurations and the types of logical storage configurations
- Apply a specific network storage configuration to an application by choosing the configuration that best meets the requirement
- Define data services and their application to storage
- Define storage management software and its application to storage
- Describe storage backup systems, such as tape libraries
- Discuss network storage in basic terms
- Define and differentiate between various storage technologies, including small computer system interface (SCSI), Fibre, peripheral component interconnect (PCI), and SBus
- Apply a specific technology to an application and provide rationale for that choice
- Identify and differentiate various storage components
- Describe storage systems, such as storage arrays, and define the specific technologies associated with arrays
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