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Course 9005: Storage Networking Boot Camp

Course #: 9005
Course Type: On-site & Public
Duration: 5 days
Price: $4999
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Description

TONEX Storage and Networking Boot Camp is a comprehensive, vendor neutral exposure to storage and networking interfaces architectures, storage solutions and supporting technologies.

The Storage and Networking Boot Camp is a 5-day accelerated course by TONEX that provides comprehensive, vendor-neutral exposure to SAN solutions and supporting technologies, such as Fibre Channel, NAS, iSCSI, SATA, SAS and IP storage. Attendees learn about architecture, protocols, standards, management practices, perfromance, security, tools, and SAN-design and implementation considerations.

Class discussions cover a wide range of topics, including the capabilities and limitations of the various supporting technologies and SAN management in enterprise environments, while a hands-on lab allows students to apply their knowledge of the Fibre Channel protocol; gain experience with component installation and configuration; build a simple SAN fabric; and explore SAN management applications.

Objectives

What You'll Learn

  • Overview of iSCSI, Fibre Channel, GigE, Infiniband, IDE, SATA, SAS, USB, 1394,
  • Storage concepts and architecture covering storage subsystems, DAS, SAN, NAS, and CAS
  • Overview of backup/recovery, disaster recovery/business continuity, and local and remote replication
  • Emerging technologies such as IP SAN, storage virtualization, and security
  • Storage infrastructure's logical and physical components
  • Core elements of a data center infrastructure
  • Introduction to managing and monitoring in the data center
  • Evolution of storage and storage environments

Upon completion of this boot camp, the attendees will be able to

  • Understand Basic Storage Technology
  • Describe storage performance and data protection strategies including RAID, caching, and connectivity technology
  • Differentiate between DAS, SAN, NAS, CAS and IP Storage environments
  • Identify disk components (actuator, platter, head, sector, track, zo ne)
  • Compare and contrast Disk Technologies between ATA/IDE, SATA (Serial ATA), SCSI and SAS (Serial Attached SCSI)
  • Describe SCSI (architecture, connections, disks, tapes)
  • Describe SCSI protocol (initiators, targets and logical units)
  • Identify implementation parameters (Parallel, FC, iSCSI)
  • Describe FC SAN general concepts (architecture and basic terms including port types, WWN, components (HBA, Hub, Bridge/Router, Switch, Director, Cable, GBICs, etc.)
  • Identify advantages and disadvantages of using FC SAN (distance, speed,
    connectivity and scalability)
  • Describe topologies (Point to Point, Arbitrated Loop, Switched Fabric)
  • Describe FC Protocol (service classes, addressing)
  • Describe switched fabric based services (virtualization, authentication, file sharing, replication, extension, FAIS)
  • Describe IP Storage Networking general concepts (network storage, block, file,
  • FCIP, iFCP, iSCSI, iSNS, components)
  • Describe 10 Gigabit Ethernet
  • Identify 10GbE Storage Applications
  • Describe SONET/SDH and DWDM
  • Describe iSCSI implementation concepts
  • Identify advantages and disadvantages of using IP Storage Networking (distance,
    speed, connectivity, scalability, security)
  • Describe NAS concepts (file access, components, O/S)
  • Identify advantages and disadvantages of using NAS technology
  • Compare and contrast NFS and CIFS protocols
  • Compare storage virtualization approaches (host, network, storage device)
  • Describe storage management components (capacity, configuration, LDM,
  • Storage Network Managers, device managers, integration)
  • Identify the advantages and disadvantages of effective storage management.
  • Describe data management concepts (Backup & Recovery, Information Lifecycle)
  • Compare storage virtualization approaches (host, network, storage device)
  • Describe virtualization management strategies (in-band and out-of-band)
  • Describe storage virtualization taxonomy elements (block, disk, tape, file
    system, file/record) Describe virtualization services (Snapshot, Copy, Replication)
  • Describe virtualization services (snapshot, copy, replication)
  • Desribe Infiniband
  • Desribe Universal Serial Bus (USB)
  • Desribe 1394 (FireWire)
  • Describe PCI and PCI-X

Course Outline

Basic Storage Technology

  • Storage performance and data protection strategies including RAID, caching, and connectivity technology
  • DAS, SAN, NAS, CAS and IP Storage environments
  • Disk components (actuator, platter, head, sector, track, zone)
  • Disk Technologies between ATA/IDE, SATA (Serial ATA), SCSI and SAS (Serial Attached SCSI)
  • SCSI (architecture, connections, disks, tapes)
  • SCSI protocol (initiators, targets and logical units)
  • FC SAN general concepts (architecture and basic terms including port types, WWN
  • FC components (HBA, Hub, Bridge/Router, Switch, Director, Cable, GBICs, etc.)

Storage Systems Architecture

  • Today's data storage solutions
  • Storage system requirements
  • Direct Attached Storage (DAS)
  • Storage Area Network(SAN)
  • Network Attached Storage (NAS)
  • Disk Arrays
  • Data center infrastructures
  • Storage networking building blocks

Direct Attached Storage (DAS)

  • DAS-based Storage
  • Connectivity options: IDE/ATA, SCSI, SATA, and SAS protocols
  • DAS management

Storage Area Network (SAN)

  • Common SAN topologies
  • Comparing connectivity devices
  • SAN and Fibre Channel
  • iSCSI SAN

Network Attached Storage (NAS)

  • NAS connectivity options
  • NAS management considerations

IP Storage 

  • Network storage fundamentals
  • FCIP, iFCP, iSCSI, iSNS
  • Ccomponents
  • 10 Gigabit Ethernet
  • 10GbE Storage Applications
  • SONET/SDH and DWDM
  • iSCSI implementation concepts

SANs Fundamentals

  • Storage Networking Applications
  • Storage Networking Architectures
  • SAN solutions and supporting technologies
  • SAN topologies
  • Fibre Channel and IP storage
  • SAN protocols
  • SAN standards
  • RAID and components
  • RAID levels
  • RAID0,RAID1,RAID3,RAID4,RAID5,RAID0+1,RAID1+0
  • SAN management practices and tools
  • SAN design and implementation considerations
  • Components of an intelligent storage system
  • Clustering with SANs
  • Troubleshooting and optimization

SAN Architecture

  • Networked Storage
  • Storage networking options and evolutions
  • Physical and logical elements of DAS
  • SAN topologies
  • NAS topologies
  • Compare and contrast connectivity devices
  • IP SAN topologies
  • NAS concepts (file access, components, O/S)
  • Advantages and disadvantages of using NAS technology
  • NFS and CIFS protocols
  • Storage virtualization approaches (host, network, storage device)
  • Storage management components (capacity, configuration, LDM, Storage Network Managers, device managers, integration)
  • Data management concepts (Backup & Recovery, Information Lifecycle)
  • Storage virtualization approaches (host, network, storage device)
  • Virtualization management strategies (in-band and out-of-band)
  • Storage virtualization taxonomy elements (block, disk, tape, file system, file/record) Describe virtualization services (Snapshot, Copy, Replication)
  • Virtualization services (snapshot, copy, replication)
  • Content Addressable Storage (CAS)

Fibre Channel (FC)

  • Fibre Channel fundamentals
  • Fibre Channel architecture
  • Fabric architecture
  • FC-AL architecture
  • FC-AL topology design
  • Fibre Channel layered model
  • FC Protocol (service classes, addressing)
  • Frames and primitives
  • Link services
  • Fibre Channel operations
  • FC topologies (Point to Point,A rbitrated Loop, Switched Fabric)
  • Virtualization, authentication, file sharing, replication, extension, FAIS)
  • FC SAN (distance,speed,connectivity and scalability) Evaluation

Infiniband Fundamentals

  • Infiniband Architecture
  • Infiniband Protocols

Gigabit Ethernet Fundamentals

  • GigE and 10GE architectures
  • PHY and MAC layers
  • MAC layer
  • Components and Frame Formats
  • RC layer
  • LLC layer
  • PCS, PMA, and PMD layers
  • 10GBASE-X, 10GBASE-R and 10GBASE-W
  • 10GBASE-T
  • Gigabit data encoding
  • 8B/10B, 64B/66B and 64B/65B PCS
  • Plugs and connectors MSA (XENPAK, XFP, etc.)

IDE/ATA and Serial ATA(SATA) Fundamentals

  • ATA/IDE overview
  • Functional interface
  • Command Block and Control Block Registers
  • Commands and operations
  • Host Services overview

Serial ATA (SATA) Technical Overview

  • SATA Layered architecture
  • Physical Layer overview
  • Link Layer overview
  • Frames and Primitives
  • Transport Layer overview
  • Frame Information Structures(FIS)
  • Commands

Operations and Management (O & M)

  • Information Availability
  • Business continuity (BC)
  • Data availability
  • Data replication
  • Disaster recovery (DR)
  • Planned and unplanned outages
  • RTO, RPO, and RGO
  • Vulnerability within adatacenter
  • General planning considerations for DR
  • Data center management
  • Operation processes
  • key areas and tasks
  • Security and vulnerability
  • Industry trends
  • Tools

USB and 1394 Fundamentals

  • USB architecture
  • USB specifications
  • USB protocol layer1394 fundamentals
  • 1394 (FireWire) protocol overview
  • 1394 architecture and configurations
  • 1394a and 1394b
  • Isochronous and Asynchronous
  • SCSI over 1394 (SBP-2)

Additional Information

TONEX Public Boot Camps Include:
  • Experienced instructors including senior executives, managers, authors, educators, consultants, course developers, and CTOs.
  • Real life examples and practices
  • Small class size
  • Personalized instructor mentoring
  • Ongoing post-training support via e-mail and phone

On-Site Classes 

On-site classes can also be tailored to meet your needs. You might shorten a 20-day class into a 5-day class, or combine portions of several related courses into a single course, or have the instructor vary the emphasis of topics depending on your staff's and site's requirements. We require a minimum of five employees and above. The CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professionals) exam is a six-hour, monitored paper-based exam covering 10 domains of information system security knowledge, each representing a specific area of expertise.

Customize your Boot Camp
TONEX Boot camps can be tailored to meet your specific needs. At TONEX, we gain an in-depth understanding of your organization and your training requirements. We can then customize the Boot Camp to match your project and the attendees' experience and requirements.

  • Courses can be delivered to your office, providing content and focus integrated with the immediate needs of your organization.
  • TONEX extracts the key elements of the course topics and packages them into an efficient and cost effective Boot Camp by eliminating the overlap and introductory redundancy.
  • A customized Boot Camp gives provides immersion into a subject in a comparatively short period of time. For those requiring more detailed views, we offer Advanced courses.

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Who Should Attend

This course is designed for technical professionals, engineers seeking an accelerated learning path that includes both conceptual knowledge of Fibre Channel SAN technologies, IP storage, iSCSI, and 10 GigE and hands-on experience in heterogeneous SAN environments.

  • Storage managers, storage administrators, administrators for SAN, backup/recovery, and disaster recovery
    Storage consultants and practitioners
  • IT professionals (systems, security, database, network, application consultants, administrators, architects, & project managers) who need to understand storage technology
  • Hardware (inlcuding ASIC) and Software Engineers and Designers
  • IT engineers who plan, recommend, or make storage technology decisions
  • Anyone who want to build a career in the storage industry

Prerequisites

Basic technical understanding of networking and storage concepts and terminology

Testimonials

Excellent Class! Excellent Instructor!
SAN Boot Camp
Julie Talbot-Hubbard
JPMorgan Chase

 

Excellent Boot Camp. The instructor was very flexible on the course content and prepared special materials to meet our needs.

Robert Ludecke
SAN Boot Camp
JP Morgan Chase

 

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