Designing Storage Area Networks

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code.

NWS-4940

length.

3 days

type.

Instructor-Led

partner.

Sun Microsystems

price.

$2,400 :: $2,040 GSA GOV.

The Designing Storage Area Networks course provides students with intensive practice creating storage area network (SAN) designs based on the Sun StorEdge Open SAN Architecture. A series of real-world case studies challenge students to match storage goals with technical infrastructures that help customers realize a greater return on their SAN investment. This course consists of 30% lecture and 70% case-study activities.

There are currently no scheduled dates for this course. If you are interested in this course, request a course date with the links below.

who can benefit

Students who can benefit from this course are architects and implementers with current knowledge of storage products and technologies who want greater expertise in designing enterprise-level SANs.

prerequisites

To succeed fully in this course, students should be able to:

	Manage volumes with storage management software such as Veritas Volume Manager
	Explain the roles of the technical components that comprise a SAN
	Differentiate between SAN topologies and identify the benefits and limitations of each
	Explain how to use zoning techniques to obtain storage management objectives
	Identify how to implement security measures in a SAN
	Describe the function of virtualization in a SAN
	Identify pathways and protocols for SAN management applications

skills gained

Upon completion of this course, you should be able to:

	Determine a customer's business data management challenges
	Design a SAN infrastructure to meet customer data management challenges
	Design a SAN infrastructure to manage capacity and availability
	Design a SAN that achieves storage consolidation goals
	Design a SAN that achieves enterprise backup goals
	Design a SAN that supports Sun Cluster 3.X or Oracle® Real Application Clusters (ORACLE RAC) cluster applications
	Design a SAN that supports remote disaster recovery goals

course content details

	Module 1 - SAN Design Basics

	Identify customer business data management challenges
	Evaluate the impact of SANs on the information technology (IT) environment
	Describe the impact of SANs in response to data management challenges
	Describe key considerations for designing a SAN
	Evaluate the potential areas of cost savings with a SAN implementation

	Module 2 - Designing the SAN Infrastructure to Support Business Drivers

	Define customer storage goals
	Assess customer storage requirements
	Describe how SAN solutions support business drivers

	Module 3 - Designing the SAN Infrastructure to Manage Capacity and Availability

	Identify SAN reference configurations that increase availability
	Design Sun supported configurations for SAN applications based on capacity

	Module 4 - Designing a SAN to Support Storage Consolidation

	Describe the storage consolidation environment
	Identify customer requirements for a storage consolidation that lead to a SAN solution
	Apply a systematic methodology to design a SAN solution that supports storage consolidation

	Module 5 - Designing a SAN to Support Enterprise Backup

	Identify customer requirements for enterprise backup that lead to a SAN solution
	Describe the enterprise backup environment
	Describe server-free backup implementations
	Design a Sun SAN for enterprise backup

	Module 6 - Designing a SAN to Support Clustering

	Describe the clustered applications environment
	Describe how a SAN supports a SAN 3.x configuration
	Describe SAN design elements for ORACLE RAC
	Design a SAN that supports clustering

	Module 7 - Designing a SAN to Support Enterprise Continuity

	Describe the impact of SAN designs on remote data replication
	Describe the impact of SAN designs on remote clusters
	Define SAN-based cluster configurations
	Design a SAN that supports distance capabilities