STORAGE AREA NETWORK (SAN)

MODULE - 1

FUNDAMENTALS OF STORAGE TECHNOLOGIES

 Pre-Requisites: 

                   Basics of Operating systems         

Course Contents:

 v  Basic Storage Technology

v  Disk Technologies: Terminologies associated with disks and different types of disks

v  Evolution of Storage: SCSI to SAN

v  Storage Networking Architecture

§  DAS

§  NAS

§  SAN

§  Usage, advantage and limitations of each

v  NAS Concepts

v  SAN concepts

v  RAID: different types - usage, advantage and limitations

v  SAN topologies

v  Components of a SAN: - HBA, switches, storage

v  SAN topologies

v  FC protocol

v  Physical layer:

§  Fiber optic technology  and FC media

§  Connectors

v  Data constructs

§  FC frames

v  Addressing and Routing

§  WWN and FCID

§  Fiber Channel services

§  FSPF

§  Zoning

§  log-in procedures

v  Management of SANs

v  Storage Virtualization            

Course Duration: 12 days (24 hrs)

                                                              MODULE - 2

IMPLEMENTING AND ADMINISTERING STORAGE AREA NETWORKS (BROCADE/CISCO)

Pre-Requisites:   

           Basics of Fibre channel storage area networks

Course Contents:

v  SAN switch hardware overview

§  Brocade

§  Cisco

v  Fabric Services

§  Fabric Login

§  Port Login to Target

§  Process Login

v  Fibre channel Zoning

§  Hard zoning

§  Soft Zoning

§  Zoning in Brocade

§  Zoning in Cisco

v  Fabric Design

§  Switch Topology (Core-Edge topology)

§  Comparing Fabric Topologies

§  Switch Interoperability

§  Comparing Routed SANs

§  HA Design

§  Virtual SANs in Cisco

§  Comparing VSANs and Zones

§  Concepts of Logical SANs in Brocade

§  Trunking and Portchanneling in Brocade and Cisco

v  SAN Extension

§  FCIP Concepts

§  Brocade FCIP Implementations

§  Cisco FCIP Implementations

Course Duration: 12 days (24 hrs)

                                                                  MODULE - 3

CLARIION HOST INTEGRATION AND MANAGEMENT

Pre-Requisites: 

v  Fundamentals of Disk, SCSI and RAID technologies

v  Basics of Fibre channel technology

v  Basics of Fibre channel storage area networks

v  Any Unix Flavor

C          Course Objectives: 

v  Design and basic architecture of various CLARiiON models

v  Explain the operation of CLARiiON  components

v  CLARRIION Management Utilities

§  Navisphere Manager.

§  Management Menu Choices.

§  Managing the Storage System.

§  Managing RAID groups.

§  Managing LUNs.

v  Clariion Host integration (Unix and Windows hosts)

v  Access Logix

§  Defining Access Logix.

§  Access Logix Operation.

§  Host Registration.

§  Managing Storage Groups with Navisphere Manager.

v  Describe how storage is configured and provisioned

§  How to bind Meta LUNS

§  Creation of storage groups

§  Masking of LUNS to hosts

v  Powerpath

§  Introduction

§  Defining PowerPath Terminology.

§  PowerPath Operation.

§  PowerPath Administration

v  Clariion SnapView overview, configuration and Management

§  SnapView Sanpshot

§  SnapView Clone

v  Clariion MirrorView overview, configuration and Management