SAN and Storage Fundamentals (SFUN)

Who should attend

Entry level storage technicians who need an overview of the structure and concepts of modern storage technologies.

Prerequisites

Networking & TCP/IP Fundamentals (NWF) and
Troubleshooting TCP/IP Fundamentals (TTCP) or similar knowledge of networking technologies.

Course Objectives

This course gives an overview of the design and concepts of storage technology as well as covering vendor specific features and protocols.

Course Content

Introduction and Overview
Storage media
- Small Computer System Interface (SCSI)
- Fiber Channel (FC)
- Serial Attached SCSI (SAS)
- (Serial) Advanced Technology Attachment (ATA/SATA)
- Solid State Drive (SSD) and Flash
- Tape
- Tiering
  - Hierarchical Storage Management (HSM)
  - Information Lifecycle Management (ILM)
  - AutoTiering
  - Virtual Storage Tiering
- Efficiency
  - Compression
  - Dedupe
  - Cloning
  - Storage Virtualization
Storage types and protocols
- DAS
- NAS
  - Ethernet (Medium)
  - Network File System (NFS)
  - HTTP Representational State Transfer (REST)
  - Server Message Block (SMB)/ Common Internet File System (CIFS)
- SAN
  - Fiber Channel (Medium)
  - Fiber Channel Protokoll (FCP), Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)
  - SCSI via IP (iSCSI)
- Unified Storage
  - Gateway
  - Unified
- Objects
- Cloud
  - Cloud Data Management Interface (CDMI)
Backup/DR
- local
  - Snapshot-Space (COW – Copy-on-Write, COFW – Copy-on-First-Write)
  - Pointerbased
- remote
  - Synchronicity (sync, semi-sync, asynchron, log-shipping)
  - Methodology (BCV – Business Continuancy Volumes, Mirror, Vault)
- Cloud
- immutable
Security, Monitoring and Management
- Security
  - Design
  - In-Flight (IP-SEC, NFS-Kerberos/Privacy)
  - At-Rest (Encrypting Disks, Cryptainer)
- Monitoring
  - Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
- Management
  - Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S)
Vendor comparison
- SAN (EMC Clariion, EMX VMAX, NetApp FAS/V-Series 7-Mode, NetApp E-Series)
- NAS (EMC Celerra VNX/VNXe, NetApp FAS/V-Series 7-Mode, HDS BlueArc)
- Scale-Out (IBM SONAR, EMC Isilon, NetApp FAS Cluster-Mode, HP Ibrix, Panasas, Dell Exanet, Lustre, NetApp StorageGrid & E-Series)
- Integrated Stacks (Dell vStart, HP VirtualSystem, NetApp/Cisco FlexPod & ExpressPod, VCE block)

Classroom Training

Modality: C

Duration 5 days

Price (excl. tax)

Eastern Europe: 2,990.- €

Dates and Booking

English

2 hours difference

26-30 Sep 2021 Online Training This is a FLEX course.
Time zone: Gulf Standard Time (GST)

3 hours difference

19-23 Dec 2021 Online Training This is a FLEX course.
Time zone: Gulf Standard Time (GST)

German

Time zone Central European Summer Time (CEST)

23-27 Aug 2021 Online Training This is a FLEX course.
Time zone: Central European Summer Time (CEST)

13-17 Sep 2021 Online Training This is a FLEX course.
Time zone: Central European Summer Time (CEST)

11-15 Oct 2021 Online Training This is a FLEX course.
Time zone: Central European Summer Time (CEST)

8-12 Nov 2021 Online Training This is a FLEX course.
Time zone: Central European Time (CET)

6-10 Dec 2021 Online Training This is a FLEX course.
Time zone: Central European Time (CET)

10-14 Jan 2022 Online Training This is a FLEX course.
Time zone: Central European Time (CET)

7-11 Feb 2022 Online Training This is a FLEX course.
Time zone: Central European Time (CET)

14-18 Feb 2022 Online Training This is a FLEX course.
Time zone: Central European Time (CET)

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