Designing Storage Area Networks (NWS-4940)
The Designing Storage Area Networks course provides students with intensive practice creating storage area network (SAN) designs based on the Sun StorEdge™ Open SAN Architecture. A series of real-world case studies challenge students to match storage goals with technical infrastructures that help customers realize a greater return on their SAN investment. This course consists of 30% lecture and 70% case-study activities.
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Who Can Benefit
Students who can benefit from this course are architects and implementers with current knowledge of storage products and technologies who want greater expertise in designing enterprise-level SANs.Prerequisites
To succeed fully in this course, students should be able to do the following:- Manage volumes with storage management software such as Veritas™ Volume Manager
- Explain the roles of the technical components that comprise a SAN
- Differentiate between SAN topologies and identify the benefits and limitations of each
- Explain how to use zoning techniques to obtain storage management objectives
- Identify how to implement security measures in a SAN
- Describe the function of virtualization in a SAN
- Identify pathways and protocols for SAN management applications
Skills Gained
Upon completion of this course, students should be able to:- Determine a customer's business data management challenges
- Design a SAN infrastructure to meet customer data management challenges
- Design a SAN infrastructure to manage capacity and availability
- Design a SAN that achieves storage consolidation goals
- Design a SAN that achieves enterprise backup goals
- Design a SAN that supports Sun™ Cluster 3.X or Oracle® Real Application Clusters (ORACLE RAC) cluster applications
- Design a SAN that supports remote disaster recovery goals
Course Content
Module 1 - SAN Design Basics
- Identify customer business data management challenges
- Evaluate the impact of SANs on the information technology (IT) environment
- Describe the impact of SANs in response to data management challenges
- Describe key considerations for designing a SAN
- Evaluate the potential areas of cost savings with a SAN implementation
Module 2 - Designing the SAN Infrastructure to Support Business
- Define customer storage goals
- Assess customer storage requirements
- Describe how SAN solutions support business drivers
Module 3 - Designing the SAN Infrastructure to Manage Capacity and
- Identify SAN reference configurations that increase availability
- Design Sun supported configurations for SAN applications based on capacity
Module 4 - Designing a SAN to Support Storage Consolidation
- Describe the storage consolidation environment
- Identify customer requirements for a storage consolidation that lead to a SAN solution
- Apply a systematic methodology to design a SAN solution that supports storage consolidation
Module 5 - Designing a SAN to Support Enterprise Backup
- Identify customer requirements for enterprise backup that lead to a SAN solution
- Describe the enterprise backup environment
- Describe server-free backup implementations
- Design a Sun SAN for enterprise backup
Module 6 - Designing a SAN to Support Clustering
- Describe the clustered applications environment
- Describe how a SAN supports a SAN 3.x configuration
- Describe SAN design elements for ORACLE RAC
- Design a SAN that supports clustering
Module 7 - Designing a SAN to Support Enterprise Continuity
- Describe the impact of SAN designs on remote data replication
- Describe the impact of SAN designs on remote clusters
- Define SAN-based cluster configurations
- Design a SAN that supports distance capabilities
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