Key Topics

Day 1

• Welcome
• Unit 1 – Evolution of storage area networks Unit 2 – Fibre Channel

Day 2

• Unit 3 – Fibre Channel switches and directors: Brocade (b-type)
• Unit 4 – Brocade DCFM and Network Advisor

Day 3

• Exercise 0 – Lab setup and preliminary instructions
• Exercise 1 – Brocade switch 2109: Initial configuration Exercise 2 – Management software installation Exercise 3 – Brocade Fabric Manager
• Exercise 4 – Brocade switch: Zoning configuration Exercise 5 – V3700 storage provisioning using iSCSI Exercise 6 – Brocade VDX fabric merging
• Unit 5 – Fibre Channel switches and directors: Cisco MDS

Day 4

• Unit 6 – Converged Enhanced Ethernet
• Unit 7 – Fibre Channel over Ethernet Unit 8 – iSCSI
• Exercise 7 – Basic configuration

Objectives

• Summarize the storage infrastructure challenges and the various storage architectures such as DAS, SAN and NAS
• Classify SAN terminology including trunking, zoning, multipathing and fabric merging
• Recognize b-type Data Center Management tools such as Data Center Fabric Manager and Network Advisor (NA)
• Classify the various tabs in the Network Advisor Tool
• Recall the Cisco MDS management tools
• Recognize the importance of Converged Enhanced Ethernet
• Compare the features of iSCSI and FCoE