Introduction to Storage Networking

Course Overview

Examine products and strategies associated with managing the explosive growth of business data across the enterprise in today's networking economy.

Audience

Information Technology (IT) architects, system engineers, and other specialists who need a general introduction to the storage networking environment.

Skills Gained

Discuss the convergence of networked approaches to storage connectivity, including SAN, NAS, and iSCSI

• Describe storage networking facilitated value-add solutions including: disk or tape resource pooling, LAN-free backup, serverless backup, high availability clustering, and disaster tolerance
• Define SAN terminology including: Fibre Channel architecture, data transfer protocols, nodes, ports, fabric, switches, hubs, bridges, and gateways
• Correlate storage networking infrastructure with host and NAS server Logic Unit Number (LUN) assignments and device access
• Identify resource access and sharing options and considerations associated with networked storage environments
• Assess NAS backup options including point-in-time images with the Persistent Storage Manager, LAN-free backup with Tivoli Storage Manager, and Network Data Management Protocol (NDMP) backup with Tivoli Data Protection
• Illustrate the usage of the SAN fabric components including protocol converters, Fibre Channel hubs, switches, and directors in establishing a SAN environment

Prerequisites

None.

Course Outline

• Evolution to storage networking
• Enterprise storage infrastructure challenges
• Storage networking facilitated solutions
• Introduction to Fibre Channel
• Fibre Channel architecture
• Fibre Channel physical model
• Storage consolidation and host resource access
• Storage consolidation and host LUN access
• Resource access and sharing
• SAN infrastructure and networking exploitation
• SAN fabric components
• LAN/SAN file sharing and backup options
• SAN management overview

Introduction to Storage Networking / SN70GB (SN70GBGB)