Storage Area Networking Fundamentals – SN71GCR
Enrol Details
Course Code: SN71G Brand: Storage Category: Systems Skill Level: Intermediate Duration: 32H Modality:CR Audience
This is a base course for individuals who are involved in the planning, installing, configuring, and upgrading of IBM systems.
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Prerequisites
The following course, or equivalent knowledge, is required prior to this course:_x000D_
• Introduction to Storage (SS01)
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For additional course information and roadmaps please visit our training site:
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www.ibm.com/training
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Short Summary
This is a base course for individuals who are involved in the planning, installing, configuring, and upgrading of IBM systems. Overview
IBM offers a comprehensive portfolio of SAN switches, storage, software, services and solutions to reliably bring information to people in a cost effective way. IBM provides flexible, scalable and open standards-based business-class and global enterprise-class storage networking solutions for the on demand world._x000D_
This course provides an overview of storage network and data center networking technology. It reviews SAN concepts, Fibre Channel architecture, SAN topologies, IBM b-type offerings, IBM offerings from Cisco, and SAN over Ethernet architectures, such as iSCSI and FCoE.
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Topic
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
Objectives
After completing this course, you should be able to:_x000D_
• Classify the components of a SAN infrastructure_x000D_
• Appraise the Fibre Channel architecture and terms_x000D_
• Classify the three major components of a SAN_x000D_
• Differentiate the features of the IBM Storage System b-type switch offerings_x000D_
• Differentiate the features of the IBM offered Cisco SAN switches and directors_x000D_
• Evaluate the implementations of iSCSI and FCoE
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