Length: 4 Days
SAN Training , Storage Area Networking Training
SAN Training , Storage Area Networking Training is a comprehensive, vendor neutral exposure to storage and networking interfaces architectures, storage solutions and supporting technologies.
What will you learn at the TONEX Storage Networking and Engineering Training Boot Camp?
The Storage and Networking Training Boot Camp is a 4-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, SAS 4.0, Fibre Channel, NVMe™ over PCIe®, NVMe™ over TCP, NVM Express over Fabrics (NVMe-oF), CXL, CIX, clouds and IP storage. Attendees learn about architecture, protocols, standards, management practices, performance, 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 SAS 4.0, Fibre Channel, NVMe™ over PCIe®, NVMe™ over TCP, NVM Express over Fabrics (NVMe-oF); lern about component installation and configuration; build a simple SAN fabric; and explore SAN management applications.
What is TONEX SAN Boot Camp?
TONEX SAN Boot Camp is an intensive learning experience that cover the essential elements of SAN, Storage Area Networking. SAN Training Boot camp is ideal for busy professionals who want to stay current at storage field but have limited time to be away from the office.
All boot camp includes:
- Experienced instructors including senior technology leaders, project managers, technical authors, engineers, educators, consultants, course developers, and CTOs.
- Real life examples and practices.
- Small class size.
- Personalized instructor mentoring.
- Pre-training discussions
- Ongoing post-training support via e-mail, phone and WebEx.
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 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
Objectives
Highlights
- Overview of iSCSI, Fibre Channel, GigE, Infiniband, IDE, SATA, SAS, USB and 1394
- Storage concepts and architecture covering storage subsystems, DAS, SAN, NAS, and CAS, SAS 4.0, Fibre Channel, NVMe™ over PCIe®, NVMe™ over TCP, NVM Express over Fabrics (NVMe-oF)
- 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, zone)
- Compare and contrast 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 Pros and Cons 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)
- Describe Infiniband, Universal Serial Bus (USB), 1394 (FireWire), PCI and PCI-X
- Learn about SAS 4.0, Fibre Channel, NVMe™ over PCIe®, NVMe™ over TCP, and NVM Express over Fabrics (NVMe-oF)
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
- SAS 4.0, Fibre Channel, NVMe™ over PCIe®, NVMe™ over TCP, NVM Express over Fabrics (NVMe-oF)
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
- Components
- Gigabit Ethernet
- 10GbE Storage Applications
- SONET/SDH and evolution to DWDM/OTN
- iSCSI implementation concepts
SANs Architecture
- 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 Design and Implementation
- 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, Arbitrated 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.)
- 40 GbE
- 100 GbE
- High-end Ethernet,400GbE/ 800GbE
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 a data center
- General planning considerations for DR
- Data center management
- Operation processes
- key areas and tasks
- Security and vulnerability
- Industry trends
- Tools
Other Protocols and Interconnect Models
- Compute Express Link (CXL)
- Cache Coherent Interconnect for Accelerators (CCIX)
- What is Cache Coherency?
- Why CCIX for Cache Coherency?
- CCIX specification utilizes the PCI Express protocol to implement a CCIX transaction layer
- Moving Beyond 16GT/s
- PCI Express link speed(s) to CCIX ESM link speed(s)
- CCIX ESM speed(s) 25GT/s