SAN (Storage Area Network) Online Training

Course Duration : 45 Hrs

SAN Course Content

Prerequisites

Technical Understanding of Network Concepts, UNIX, RAID etc

SAN Fundamentals

1. SNIA
2. Introduction to Storage Networking - SNIA
3. Direct Attached Storage (DAS)
4. Network Attached Storage (NAS)
5. Storage Area Network (SAN)
6. Protocols
7. SCSI
8. FCP
9. FCIP
10. IFCP
11. ISCSI
12. Virtualization
13. Traditional JBOD
14. What is a RAID
15. RAID Controllers
16. Storage Subsystems
17. Information Lifecycle Management (ILM)
18. HSM
19. VTL
20. Data Movers
21. Business Continuity
22. What is RTO
23. What is RPO

SAN (Brocade) & Storage (Clariion & Symmetrix) Administration

1. Fiber Channels – Brocade FC 100
2. Why Fibre Channel?
3. FC Theory fundamentals & Introduction.
4. FC Layers & Related Components.
5. FC Topologies, Terminology & Addressing.
6. Expected FC Behavior.
7. FC Theory fundamentals summary.
8. Brocade Switches & Management
9. SilkWorm Introduction.
10. Introduction to Hardware & Software Products.
11. Installation and Setup.
12. Installation of new switches.
13. Firmware downloads & Configuration Uploads
14. User Accounts and Password Behaviors.
15. Fabric-wide Settings vs. Local Switch Settings
16. Core PID & Fabric OS Commands.
17. Brocade Zoning.
18. Advantages of Zoning.
19. Zoning Types
20. Soft Zoning
21. Hard Zoning
22. Mixed Zoning
23. Networking.
24. Fabric Designs
25. FSPF – Fabric Shortest Path First.
26. Trunking.
27. DLS
28. MPR
29. IFCP
30. EMC CLARiiON Host Integration & Management
31. Introduction - Course Overview
32. Review of Pre-Requisite Modules.
33. CLARiiON Architecture.
34. CLARiiON Software features.
35. CLARRIION Management Utilities.
36. Navisphere Manager.
37. Management Menu Choices.
38. Managing the Storage System.
39. Managing RAID groups.
40. Managing LUNs.

SAN (Brocade) & Storage (Clariion & Symmetrix) Administration

1. Solaris Integration
2. Access Logix
3. Defining Access Logix
4. Access Logix Operation.
5. Host Registration.
6. Managing Storage Groups with Navisphere Manager.
7. Advanced LUN Management
8. Advanced LUN Concepts.
9. Meta LUNs.
10. LUN Migration
11. PowerPath
12. Introduction
13. Defining PowerPath Terminology.
14. PowerPath Operation.
15. Zoning for PowerPath.
16. PowerPath Administration.
17. PowerPath Functionality.
18. SnapView Snapshots
19. SnapView Snapshots Overview.
20. SnapView Operation.
21. Reserved LUN Pool Configuration.
22. SnapView GUI Administration.
23. SnapView Host Interaction.
24. Snap View Clones
25. Clone Overview.
26. Clone Operations.
27. Clone Administration.
28. Mirror View Configuration & Management
29. Functionality of MirrowView/S and MirrowView/A.
30. Mirror View Configuration.
31. Fracture Log and Write Intent
32. Log Operation.
33. Mirror View Administration
34. Symmetrix Foundation
35. Symmetrix Inside - Logical view
36. FA, DA and Cache
37. EMC physical disk and Symmetrix device (logical volume)
38. Read Hit/Miss, Write Hit/Miss
39. EMC Symmetrix Solution Enabler

SAN (Brocade) & Storage (Clariion & Symmetrix) Administration

1. Symmetrix/DMX Configuration Manager
2. Host HBA installation and configuration
3. Solution Enabler to explore Symmetrix internals.
4. How many FA, DA and cache & how many physical disks installed, why?
5. How the logical volumes are formed from physical disks?
6. How are the logical volumes mapped to FAs?
7. How I/O are performed in Storage Arrays
8. Configuration Manager
9. Configuration Management Fundamentals
10. Creating and Deleting of Hyper Volumes
11. Mapping and Unmapping of Devices
12. Managing Meta Devices
13. Symmetrix DMX Series Director Pairing
14. SRDF R1/R2 Volumes
15. Configuration Manager with SRDF
16. Symmetrix Command Line Interface
17. Time Finder configuration and Management
18. Symmetrix TimeFinder
19. TimeFinder Mirror/BCV
20. TimeFinder/Clone
21. TimeFinder/Snap
22. Zoning and LunMasking to assign STD to production host
23. Symconfigure to make BCV and map BCV to FA
24. BCV operations (Query/Establish/split)
25. Zoning and LunMasking to assign BCV to host
26. Split BCV and STD
27. Mount STD and BCV using Lun-masking
28. Consistent split
29. SRDF configuration and Management
30. Symmetrix TimeFinder Review
31. Symmetrix SRDF
32. SRDF operations
33. Symmetrix SRDF failover and failback
34. Symconfigure to make R1/R2 and map R2 to FA
35. RDF operations (Establish/split)
36. Mount STD and Failover to DR
37. Zoning and LunMasking to Mount R2 on DR hosts
38. Modify R2 and Failback to R1 site
39. SRDF restore from R2 to R1