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Designing Storage Area Networks (NWS-4940)

Course ID : NWS-4940 Duration : 3 days

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.



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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 do the following:

  • 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

  • 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

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

  • 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

  • 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