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Managing Storage Area Networks (NWS-4900)

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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 apply 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.

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NWS-4900 5 days $4,000.00

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Who Can Benefit
The course is intended for system and storage administrators as well as technical support personnel responsible for architecting, implementing, and supporting hardware and software components found in a SAN environment. The course introduces students to protocols, design, security, and approaches to maintaining a SAN environment.

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Prerequisites
To succeed fully in the course, you should be able to:
  • Demonstrate Solaris 10 Administration skills
  • Identify and Configure Networking Components
  • Understand Storage Fundamentals
  • Deploy RAID configurations across storage arrays

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Skills Gained
After completing this course, you will be able to:
  • Design and Architect SAN environments
  • Configure Brocade and Cisco Fibre Channel Switches
  • Understand and implement IP as a storage transport

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Course Content

Module 1 - 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

Module 2 - 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

Module 3 - 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

Module 4 - 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

Module 5 - Managing Cisco Switches

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

Module 6 - 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

Module 7 - 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

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