Students who can benefit from this course are entry-level storage professionals.

• Understand computer operating systems and computer components
• Understand network concepts
• Use a web browser

• Discuss network storage in basic terms (the elevator pitch)
• Define and differentiate between various storage technologies, including small computer system interface (SCSI), Fibre, peripheral component interconnect (PCI), SBus, and so on
• Apply a specific technology to an application and provide rationale for that choice
• Identify and differentiate various storage components
• Describe storage systems, such as storage arrays, and define the specific technologies associated with arrays
• Describe storage backup systems, such as tape libraries
• Define and differentiate between types of network storage configurations and the types of logical storage configurations
• Apply a specific network storage configuration to a customer application by choosing the configuration that best meets the requirement
• Define data services and their application to storage
• Define storage management software and its application tostorage

Module 1 - Storage Overview

• State the significance of the storage industry today
• State Sun's vision of storage
• Identify the features of Sun's vision of storage

Module 2 - Data Transfer Technologies and Physical Connectors

• Define the SBus
• Define the PCI Bus
• Define integrated development environment (IDE) devices
• Define SCSI technology and circumstances under which it isan appropriate data transfer technology to utilize basedon customer requirements of performance, availability, and cost
• Correlate the SCSI standard to images of SCSI connectors
• Define the Fibre Channel Bus and list its advantages andlimitations
• Define the types of Fibre Channel, including Fibre ChannelArbitrated Loop (FC-AL), and list the advantages andlimitations of each
• Correlate the Fibre Channel standard to images of Fibre Channelconnectors

Module 3 - Network Devices

• Define Host Bus Adaptors (HBA) and versions (including PCIand SBus) and determine which of the versions is moreappropriate in a given circumstance
• Define gigabit interface converters (GBICs)
• Identify advances in GBIC technology embodied in the smallform factor GBIC compared to the standard
• Define a Hub and its usewith storage
• Define the purpose of switches and identify the circumstancesunder which the use of a switch is more appropriate than a hub
• Define the types of cabling and distinguish their advantagesand limitations

Module 4 - Arrays

• Identify the definition of an array storage system and a JBOD
• Identify standard array components
• Consider array selection criteria based on the customer'sneed, including:
  • Capacity
  • Speed
  • Availability
  • Cost
  • Multipathing
  • Scalability

Module 5 - RAID

• Describe redundant array of independent disks (RAID) anddefine the features that make up a RAIDconfiguration
• Describe RAID levels and specific applications and performancecharacteristics
• Define and differentiate between software and hardwareimplementation of RAID with respect to performance

Module 6 - Tape Library Storage Backup Systems

• Identify two types of tape technologies, digital linear tape(DLT) and linear tape open (LTO), and state the purpose of each
• Identify standard tape library components, including:
  • Tape
  • Tape drives
  • Robotics
  • Controllers
  • I/O subsystems
• Define the criteria associated with tape libraries and howthey are implemented, including:
  • Capacity
  • Speed

Module 7 - Storage Configurations

• Describe the use and structure of NAS, especially in relationto its advantages and limitations
• Describe the use and structure of DAS, especially in relationto its advantages and limitations
• Describe the use and structure of SAN, especially in relationto its advantages and limitations

Module 8 - Storage Virtualization

• Define storage virtualization

Module 9 - Define Data Services

• Describe network data replication and its advantages andlimitations
• Describe point-in-time copy and its advantages andlimitations

Module 10 - Storage Management Software

• Describe the issues related to resource management and thetypes of software solutions available
• Describe the issues related to storage network managementand types of the software solutions available
• Describe the issues related to component management and thetypes of software solutions available