Audience: Providing overview of Storage Technology to
engineers, administrators and IT professionals (including executives who need
to make storage related decisions) who are new to the storage technology domain
in a platform and vendor agnostic manner
Prerequisites: Basic understanding of Computer Architecture
and Networking
Delivery Method: Classroom Training and Hands on Labs
Audience Size: Not more than 15 attendees
Duration: 3 Days
Course Content:
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Module 1: Storage Technology Overview
- Basics of disk storage, block storage, RAID
- Hardware and software components from the storage stack
- No single point of failure configurations
- Quick overview of LVM, file-system, simple cluster
- Introduction to SAN (Storage Area Network) and NAS (Network Attached Storage)
- Introduction to Storage Array Architecture and Functionality
Module 2: SCSI Architecture Model and Protocol
- SCSI evolution – SCSI-1, SCSI-2, SCSI-3
- Overview of SCSI-3 layered architecture model
- SCSI basic concepts
- SCSI Remote Procedure Call Model (requirements from a transport layer protocol)
Module 3: SANs Overview
- Comparing iSCSI and Fibre Channel SANs
- Practical Considerations in implementing SANs
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Module 4: Introduction to Virtualization
- Defining/describing virtualization
- Brief overview of server virtualization
- SNIA (Storage Networking Industry Association) Storage Aggregation Model
- Examples of and discussion about different layers of storage virtualization
Module 5: Snapshots and Remote Replication
- Concept of Snapshot as a point in time copy
- Different snapshot approaches/mechanisms
- Application consistency related issues with snapshots and how they are resolved
- Overview of Remote Replication
Module 6: Introduction to Information Lifecycle Management, Backup and Data Protection Technologies
- Definition/description of ILM, drivers for ILM
- RTO (Recovery Time Objective) and RPO (Recovery Point Objective) – Concepts
- Important considerations for a data-storage strategy
- Brief overview of some ILM related technologies
- Introduction to Backup
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Day3 - Hands on Labs
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- Tools: VMware Server Based Virtual Machines running on PCs networked on a LAN, Ubuntu Linux, iSCSI Enterprise Target, open-iscsi initiator for Linux, Wireshark protocol analyzer, sg_utils, scu (scsi utility), iometer, Windows iSCSI initiator
- Configuring storage using RAID and LVM technologies
- Presenting iSCSI Logical Units, Initiator Access Control (LUN Masking)
- Creating and presenting snapshots
- Performing Device Discovery from Windows, capturing protocol trace using Wireshark, protocol trace analysis for commands sent by the initiator (CDB level) and corresponding responses from the target
- Accessing the target from Linux initiator
- Use of sg_utils and scu from Linux and Windows to perform various CDB level operations
- Using iometer for performance baseline and load testing
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