Storage Area Networking Fundamentals
Skills Gained
After completing this course, you should be able to:
- Classify the components of a SAN infrastructure
- Appraise the Fibre Channel architecture and terms
- Classify the three major components of a SAN
- Differentiate the features of the IBM Storage System b-type switch offerings
- Differentiate the features of the IBM offered Cisco SAN switches and directors
- Evaluate the implementations of iSCSI and FCoE
Who Can Benefit
This is a base course for individuals who are involved in the planning, installing, configuring, and upgrading of IBM systems.
Prerequisites
The following course, or equivalent knowledge, is required prior to this course:
- Introduction to Storage (SS01)
Outline
Day 1
Welcome
- Unit 1 - SAN Concepts
- Unit 2 - Fibre Channel
- Unit 3 - SAN design and topology (1 of 2)
Day 2
- Unit 3 - SAN design and topology (2 of 2) (continued)
- Unit 4 - IBM Fibre Channel b-type switches and directors
Day 3
- Exercise 0 - Lab setup and preliminary instructions
- Exercise 1 - Switch management overview
- Exercise 2 - Management software installation
- Exercise 3 - Zoning configuration
- Exercise 4 - Configuring the IBM Storwize V3700 storage system
- Exercise 5 - V3700 storage provisioning using iSCSI
- Exercise 6 - Brocade VDX fabric merging
- Unit 5 - Cisco MDS Fibre Channel switches and directors
Day 4
- Unit 6 - SAN over Ethernet
- Exercise 7 - Basic configuration
- Exercise 8 - Management tools installation
- Exercise 9 - VSAN creation
- Exercise 10 - Zoning configuration on Cisco
- Exercise 11 - Configuring the DS3500 storage subsystem
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