Managing Enterprise Storage Networks

The Managing Enterprise Storage workshop educates the participants on the abundance of technologies that power today’s data centers. It not only addresses the underlying technology alternatives that connect, virtualize, secure, manage, and store the massive data accumulated by all data center applications, it also concentrates how to minimize the total cost of ownership while simultaneously increasing asset utilization and application performance. This workshop examines system design points and common components used to architect, construct, and design a storage networked solution aimed at powering any business application.

Content

Storage Components

• Disk types, components and features
• Removable media types, components and features
• Installing and maintaining connectors and cable types
• Using physical networking hardware
• Installing and maintaining modular storage array components
• Identifying environmental concerns and their associated impacts
• Safety techniques used during installation and maintenance of storage equipment

Connectivity

• Common storage networking industry terms
• Storage networking industry terms
• Implementing the following Fiber Channel technologies
• Implementing the following Ethernet network technologies
• Identifying the basics of converged storage network technologies
• Using network tools
• Troubleshoot common networking problems
• Troubleshoot common fiber channel problems
• Compare and contrast common storage infrastructures (SAN v NAS v DAS)

Storage Management

• RAID levels and associated properties
• Executing storage provisioning techniques
• Volume management concepts
• General virtualization concepts
• Implementing monitoring, alerting, and reporting
• Management protocols, interfaces, and associated purpose
• Information Lifecycle Management concepts
• The various functions and differences of de-duplication and compression

Data Protection

• Redundancy concepts, associated purposes, and components
• Replication methods and properties
• The basics of data backup concepts for long term storage
• Basic concepts and importance of data security

Storage Performance

• How latency and throughput impact storage performance
• Tuning and workload balance concepts
• Storage device bandwidth properties and functions
• Network device bandwidth properties and functions
• Performance metrics, parameters, and purposes of storage/host tools

For Whom: CIOs, IT Development Managers, Heads of Department, System Administrators/Engineers, IT Professionals, and others who want to sharpen their knowledge in IT world.

Training Methodology

The training methodology combines lectures, discussions, group exercises and illustrations. Participants will gain both theoretical and practical knowledge of the topics. The emphasis is on the practical application of the topics and as a result participant will go back to the workplace with both the ability and the confidence to apply the techniques learned to their duties.