Technical Training

Expanding working knowledge of storage networking through a clear understanding of solutions and technology

Course Benefit Summary

Innovation and expansion of technical skills are necessary and key for today’s IT professionals, and for all technical roles in the storage networking industry, understanding storage technology and solutions is essential for solving business needs.

Course Description

Storage Network Foundations provides a foundational, vendor-neutral introduction to storage networking concepts, technologies, and solutions. Students will explore fundamental storage concepts, disk technology, storage architectures, storage management, and storage and networking protocols such as Fibre Channel, iSCSI, FCIP and iFCP. Key solutions including Data sharing, networked Attached Storage (NAS), Disaster Recovery preparation, Extended SANS, Business Continuity, Backup and Recovery, and Storage Consolidation will be presented and discussed. This course covers the topics tested in the SNIA Storage Network Foundations Exam (SN10-100).

Course Length: Three days

Course Format: Interactive, lecture format

Registration

This course is offered at our local office in Ottawa during the evenings and weekends. Marketbridge also offers onsite training anywhere in North America. Contact us to discuss our onsite rates to further reduce your Total Cost of Ownership for these training investments.

To view the current class schedule and locations, or to register for a class, select Class Schedule & Registration. To arrange a private class for your organization, call Marketbridge at 877.595.5504.

Prerequisites

Participants will be expected to have the following experience:

• Traditional or networked storage technologies
• LAN/WAN Solutions

If preparing for additional SNIA certification exams, the following complimentary courses are recommended:

• Storage Networking Management and Administration
• Storage Solutions: Assessment, Planning and Design

Who Should Attend

This course is intended for individuals who are currently working with IT products that are storage or networking focused, individuals who are currently working with traditional storage or networking products or services, including Fibre Channel and IP storage technologies. This course is also intended for individuals who are in sales consulting and technical support roles who need a more comprehensive understanding of storage networking technologies and solutions.

Roles

The course content and technical level are targeted for professionals working in roles similar to the following:

• Storage Administrator
• Systems and Network Administrator
• Sales Consulting
• Technical Sales Support
• MIS/IT Technical Staff and Management

Course Objectives

• Identify and define basic storage technology and terminology
• Describe the capabilities, strengths, limitations and opportunities for DAS, SAN, NAS, and CAS environments
• Identify standards organizations and related responsibilities
• Describe the SNIA Shared Storage Model
• Understand storage components and products, including the supporting standards, protocols, physical connectivity and performance (SCSI, Fibre Cannel, IP Storage)
• Describe Fibre Channel and IP SAN solutions, including SAN extension
• Understand storage and data management concepts and solutions
• Define virtualization and identify different implementations
• Describe data protection approaches
• Identify storage networking security issues and solutions

Course Topics

• Introduction to Storage Networking
• Storage Networking Architectures
• Basic Storage Technology
• SNIA Shared Storage Model
• Disk Technology
• SCSI
• FC SAN
• IP Storage
• iSCSI
• NAS
• Virtualization
• Storage Management
• Data Management
• Data Protection
• Storage Network Security

About Infinity I/O

Infinity I/O offers comprehensive, vendor-neutral training and certification programs via standard courses, tailored curriculum, custom development, stand-alone learning products and consulting. The real world, job-based training solutions from Infinity I/O ensure that businesses have the market understanding and technical expertise required to design, develop, and deploy optimal multi-vendor storage networks. Since its founding in 1995 Infinity I/O has trained over 14,000 IT professionals and developed training courseware solutions in Fibre Channel and Storage Area Networking technologies.

Marketbridge is proud to Partner with InfinityIO to provide SNIA curriculums for the Canadian Marketplace.

Course Topic Detail

Introduction to Storage Networking

• What is Storage Networking
• Business needs
• The new datacenter
• Storage consolidation
• Storage networking applications

Storage Networking Architectures

• Direct-attached storage (DAS)
• Network-attached storage (NAS)
• Storage area network (SAN)
• Comparing solutions
• Storage transport protocols
• Organizations and standards

Storage Fundamentals

• SNIA Shared Storage model
• Storage array design
• Storage devices
• RAID
• Disk physical characteristics
• Storage interfaces
• Logical Unit Numbers (LUNs)
• Tiers of storage

SCSI Protocol

• Parallel bus basics
• Serial architecture
• SCSI standards architecture
• SCSI addressing
• Fibre Channel layered model
• ULP mapping
• Routing SCSI

SAN Topologies

• Fibre Channel terminology
• Point-to-Point
• Arbitrated Loop
• Switched Fabric
• Fibre Channel ports
• Classes of service

SAN Components

• Storage devices
• Hubs, Switches and routers
• Host Bus Adapters

Physical Layer

• Media types
• Electrical technology
• Optical technology
• Connectors
• Transceivers

IP Storage

• FCIP
• iFCP
• iSCSI
• Technology comparison
• FCIP implementations
• SONET/SOH concepts & implementation
• DWDM concepts & components
• SAN extension solutions

iSCSI

• iSCSI concepts
• The iSCSI protocol
• iSCSI implementations
• iSCSI applications

NAS Concepts

• NAS architecture
• Scalability issues
• Applications

Virtualization and Data Sharing

• Defining virtualization
• Virtualization architectures
• Array-based virtualization
• Host-based virtualization
• Network-based virtualization
• Datasharing

Storage Management

• Device management overview
• Management access points
• Multi-vendor management
• SMI-S

Data Protection

• Traditional backup
• LAN-free backup
• Serverless backup
• Tape virtualization
• Disk-to-disk backup
• Data replication
• Snapshots
• Split mirrors
• Remote mirroring

Storage Networking Security Management

• Sources and points of vulnerabilities
• Types of security
• FC Specifications
• Zoning
• Binding