SAN and Storage Fundamentals (SFUN)

Entry level storage technicians.

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

• Overview
  • Direct Attached Storage
  • Network Attached Storage
  • Storage Area Networks
  • Difference DAS <-> NAS <-> SAN
  • Combinations NAS and SAN
  • Differentiation Blocklevel and Filelevel
  • Unified Storage
  • Storage Appliances and Storage Gateways
  • Market overview NAS and SAN
  • Market and perspectives
• Protocols
  • Small Computer System Interface (SCSI)
  • SCSI Commands and Versions
  • Fiber Channel Protocol (FCP)
  • Fiber Channel Packet design
  • SCSI via IP (iSCSI)
  • TCP/IP encapsulated SCSI
  • FCIP, iFCP, Ficon
  • Fiber versus Copper
• Components
  • Hosts, Host Bus Adapters
  • HBA’s for FCP and iSCSI
  • Typical Host-Applications in the SAN
  • Storage Appliances
  • Storage Gateways
  • Storage Virtualisation
  • Tapes and Libraries
  • Backup-Strategies
  • Fiber Channel Switches
  • Fiber Channel Topologies
  • Fiber Channel Fabric
• NAS and SAN Features
  • Replication and Mirror
  • Data Protection
  • High Availability
  • Disaster Recovery
  • Snapshots and Clones
  • Central SAN Management
  • Scalability and flexibility
  • Storage Consolidation
  • Diskless Server – Boot over IP/FC
  • LAN-Free Backup with NDMP
• Design and Implementation
  • Application analysis
  • Evaluation of Storage demand
  • Topology design
  • Storage Resources Design
  • Fiber Channel Zoning
  • iSCSI SAN Design
• Storage Market Overview
  • Storage Appliance Vendors
  • Storage virtualisation Hard- and Software
  • Fiber Channel Switch vendors
  • Best practices
  • Vendor solutions