Course Overview
Examine products and strategies associated with managing the explosive growth of business data across the enterprise in today`s networking economy.
Course Objectives:
- Discuss the convergence of networked approaches to storage connectivity, including SAN, NAS, and iSCSI
- Describe storage networking facilitated value-add solutions including disk or tape resource pooling, LAN-free backup, serverless backup, high availability clustering, and disaster tolerance
- Define SAN terminology including: Fiber Channel architecture, data transfer protocols, nodes, ports, fabric, switches, hubs, bridges, and gateways
- Correlate storage networking infrastructure with host and NAS server Logic Unit Number (LUN) assignments and device access
- Identify resource access and sharing options and considerations associated with networked storage environments
- Assess NAS backup options including point-in-time images with the Persistent Storage Manager, LAN-free backup with Tivoli Storage Manager, and Network Data Management Protocol (NDMP) backup with Tivoli Data Protection
- Illustrate the usage of the SAN fabric components including protocol converters, Fiber Channel hubs, switches, and directors in establishing a SAN environment
Who Should Attend?
Information Technology (IT) architects, system engineers, and other specialists who need a general introduction to the storage networking environment.
Course Content
- Evolution to storage networking
- Enterprise storage infrastructure challenges
- Storage networking facilitated solutions
- Introduction to Fibre Channel
- Fibre Channel architecture
- Fibre Channel physical model
- Storage consolidation and host resource access
- Storage consolidation and host LUN access
- Resource access and sharing
- SAN infrastructure and networking exploitation
- SAN fabric components
- LAN/SAN file sharing and backup options
- SAN management overview