SAN Training Online & Classroom

COURSES OFFERED:

1. Storage Area Network ( SAN )

SAN-EMC

→ Storage fundamentals

• Introduction to information storage
• Data center environment
• Intelligent Storage Systems & components of storage system
• Raid concepts
• Storage Protocols and Topologies
• Direct Attached Storage (DAS)
• Network Attached Storage (NAS)
• Storage Area Network (SAN)
• Difference between SAN & NAS
• FC SAN & IP SAN Technologies
• Introduction to Fiber Chanel and how it works in SAN
• FC layers & Fabric Port Types
• Fiber Connectors, Cables & FC Well-Known Adresses.
• FC Topologies & Terminology
• Architecture of a storage subsystem
• Storage management softwares
• Multipathing softwares
• Storage virtualization
• Storage tiering
• Introduction to business continuity mangement.
• Backup and archive
• Local replication and remote replication
• Cloud computing
• Securing and managing storage infrastructure

→ Brocade & CISCO switch management

• Introdcution to brocade and CISCO switches and various models
• Installation of new switches
• Switch firmware upgrade
• User  account management
• Fabric-wide settings & local switch settings.
• Zoning & types of Zoning (Port Zoning and WWN Zoning)
• Creating device alias.
• Device and fabric manger mangement
• Generating reports
• Monitoring switch logs
• Inter Switch Linking (ISL) and Trunking

→ EMC CLARIION

• Introduction to emc clariion cx series architecture
• Clariion features
• Clariion management utilities (NAVISPHERE MANAGER, NAVICLI)
• Clariion storage provisioning
• Traditional (Raid Groups) and thin (Thin Pools) provisioning
• Solaris and windows integration
• Access logix
• Powerpath
• Snapview snapshots
• Snapview clones
• Mirrorview configuration & management
• Sancopy configuration & management.
• Advanced lun managaement
• Lun migration
• Data migration
• Event monitor
• Navisphere analyzer

→ EMC VNX

• Introduction to Unified Storage & VNX.
• VNX management utilities (Unisphere & Cli Environment)
• Basic atchitecture of VNX and VNXE series
• VNX models and features
• VNX basic components
• VNX modular architecture
• Dae and drive options for VNX series
• VNX features
• VNX software and their components
• VNX storage provisioning
• Thin provisioning in VNX

→ EMC Symmetrix (DMX and VMAX)

• Introduction to symmetrix DMX and VMAX series
• Dmx and vmax storage architecture
• Differences between DMX and VMAX storage systems
• Dmx director pairing and rule 17
• FA, DA & cache concepts
• Symmetrix mirror positions
• Symmetrix device attributes
• Dynamic lun addressing
• Symmetrix management software
• Symmetrix Solutions Enabler (SYMCLI)
• Symmetrix Management Console (SMC)
• Emc Control Center (ECC)
• Confiuration manager
• Symmetrix storage provisioning
• Symmetrix device creation/deletion
• Forming & dessolving meta devices
• Mapping & unmapping
• Masking & unmasking
• Symmetrix thin provisioning
• Monitoring thin pools
• VMAX auto provisioning groups
• VMAX fully automated storage tiering (Fast & Fast VP)
• Virtual Lun Migration
• Timefinder configuration and management
• Mirror/BCV
• Clone
• Snap
• SRDF overview and concepts
• SRDF configuration and mangement
• SRDF synchronous operations
• R1/R2 device pairs creations using configuration manager
• Dynamic SRDF pairing

SAN-NETAPPS

→ Storage fundamentals

• Components of storage
• Storage protocols and topologies
• Design considerations
• Fibre channel basics and how it works in san
• Difference between SAN & NAS
• DAS/NAS/SAN explanation
• Multipathing softwares
• Architecture of a storage subsystem
• Storage Management Softwares
• Accessing storage (SAN/NAS) from windows & unix systems
• How san works in real time environment
• Virtualization
• Information lifecycle management (ILM)
• Business continuity mangement.

→ Fiber Channels-Brocade and CISCO

• Introduction to fiber chanel
• FC theory fundamentls
• FC layers & valid port types
• FC Topologies & Terminology
• Fiber connectors & fc well-known adresses.

→ Brocade & CISCO Switch Management.

• Introdcution to harware & sotware products
• Installation of new switches
• Firmware downloads and configuration uploads.
• User  account and password behaviours
• Fabric-wide settings vs. Local switch settings.
• Zoning & types of zoning
• Creating device alias.
• Device and fabric manger mangement
• Generating show tech reports(switch logs)
• Switch networking

→ Data protection

• Disaster recovery solutions
• Global mirrorning
• Metro mirroring 

→ Introduction to Netapp Storage Environment

• The key features and functions of Netapp Storage Systems
• Distinguish between nas and san
• Netapp unified storage architecture
• Netapp support site

→ Basic administration

• How to connect to a netapp (console and remote)
• Netapp system manager
• Running commands on console, from remote host and system manager
• Configure autosupport for FAS systems

→ Physical storage

• Data ontap raid technology
• Diskshelfs and disks
• Aggregates

→ Volumes

• Volume concepts
• Root volumes, flexible voumes
• Using cli and system manager for volume administration
• Qtrees

→ WAFL (Write Anywhere File Layout)

• Wafl file system concepts
• Data read and write mechanism on a wafl file system
• Consistency points (CPS), raid management and storage levels

→ Security administration

• Configure security for administrtive access to storage
• Manage user logins
• Role-based access control (RBAC)
• Manage users and groups
• Data ontap 8.0 security

→ Networking

• Configuration of network settings in data ontap
• Name resolution services (DNS & NIS) concepts and configuration
• Network interface configuration
• Interface group configuration and management
• Virtual lans (V-LAN) and routing

→ NFS (Network File System)

• NFS concepts
• Configure nfs through cli and system manager
• NFS exports
• Client side configuration for mounting
• NFS troubleshooting

→ CIFS

• CIFS concepts
• Configuring CIFS through cli and system manager
• Sharing resources on storage and mapping on clients
• CIFS troubleshooting
• Managing CIFS security

→ NAS management

• Security methods for protecting data
• Multiprotocol access
• Security style settings for volumes and qtrees
• Methods for tracking and restricting storage usage
• Create and manage quotas
• Data ontap fpolicy file-screening policy

→ SAN

• San fundamentals
• San protocols (FC, FCOE and ISCSI)
• Initiator and target
• Nodes and ports
• ISCSI setup
• Creating luns using cli and system manager
• Accessing luns from servers
• SAN management techniques
• Troubleshooting access issues in san environment

→ Snapshot copies

• Concepts snapshot copies
• Taking a snapshot copy
• Snapshot copies and inodes
• Managing inodes
• Snapshot copy reserve
• Scheduling snapshot copies
• Restoring snapshot copies
• Restoring files (original and new location)

→ Flexclone volumes

• Flexclone technology concepts
• Setting up FLEXCLONE volumes using CLI and system manager
• Splitting volumes
• Space usage

→ Introduction to other storage products

• Introduction to EMC CLARIION, DMX and VMAX
• Introduction to Hitachi and hp storage prdocuts
• Difference between operation of NETAPP storage and other storage

→ Brocade & CISCO switch management.

• Introdcution to harware & sotware products
• Installation of new switches
• Firmware downloads and configuration uploads.
• User  account and password behaviours
• Fabric-wide settings vs. Local switch settings.
• Zoning & types of zoning
• Creating device alias.
• Device and fabric manger mangement

Generating show tech reports (switch logs) Switch networking