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Storage Technology Foundations

 
Course: 174   Type: Course Workshops   Duration: 5 Days
 
 

You Will Learn How To

  • Evaluate storage architectures, including storage subsystems, DAS, SAN, NAS, CAS
  • Define backup, recovery, disaster recovery, business continuity and replication
  • Examine emerging technologies including IP-SAN, storage virtualisation and security
  • Decipher logical and physical components of a storage infrastructure
  • Establish business continuity (BC) concepts and principles
  • Identify components of managing and monitoring the data center

Course Benefits

The explosion of digital data has made the storage industry one of the highest growth sectors in the IT industry--and one of the most vital. Learning Tree has partnered with EMC Corporation to offer this course, which focuses on concepts, principles and design considerations of storage technology, rather than on specific products.

Who Should Attend

Those working in any storage environment, including storage managers and administrators, database and network administrators, project managers, and others. A basic understanding of operating systems, networks and databases is required.

Course Workshops

In-class workshops and case studies reinforce the concepts of storage technologies taught throughout this course. Participants work in small groups to apply the knowledge gained to solve particular problems. Workshops include:
  • Selecting appropriate RAID protection schemes
  • Deciphering the best local and remote replication technologies
  • Choosing between DAS, SAN, NAS and CAS technologies
  • Deploying the most effective technology for your organisation

   Storage Technology Foundations

Upcoming Dates

15 - 19 Dec, 2008
London
16 - 20 Mar, 2009
London
15 - 19 Jun, 2009
London
28 Sep - 2 Oct, 2009
London

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Storage Technology Foundations

 
Course: 174   Type: Course Workshops   Duration: 5 Days
 
 
Course Content
 

The Complex Issues of Information Management

Challenges of today's storage needs

  • Vast amounts of data being created
  • The value of data to a business
  • Identifying obstacles in data storage and data management

Investigating data storage solutions

  • Comparing options for various needs
  • Direct Attached Storage (DAS)
  • Storage Area Network (SAN)
  • Network Attached Storage (NAS)
  • Uncovering the advantages of disc arrays

Data center infrastructures

  • Assembling core elements to support business activities
  • Outlining storage system requirements

Storage System Architecture

Examining the host environment

  • Logical components
  • File systems
  • Volume management
  • Host Bus Adapters
  • Key protocols and concepts

Defining the connectivity environment

  • Bus technologies
  • Cables
  • Ports
  • Logical connectivity components

Deciphering the disc environment

  • Determining performance through disc drive access characteristics
  • Partitioning physical drives
  • Distinguishing RAID components
  • Exploiting common RAID levels

Considering your storage system environment

  • Maximising an intelligent storage system
  • Integrated vs. modular storage
  • Handling data flow

Network Storage Systems

Direct Attached Storage (DAS)

  • Employing a DAS-based storage strategy
  • Connectivity options: IDE, ATA and SCSI protocols
  • Sustaining the I/O flow
  • Challenges of managing a DAS solution

Storage Area Network (SAN)

  • Assessing common SAN topologies
  • Comparing connectivity devices
  • Navigating the Fibre Channel log-in process
  • The value of a SAN solution

Network Attached Storage (NAS)

  • Weighing NAS connectivity options
  • Deciphering management considerations
  • Benefits of a NAS-based solution

Adopting other storage options

  • Physical and logical elements of IP-SAN
  • Advantages of a Content Addressable Storage (CAS) strategy

Storage security and virtualisation

  • Identifying, analysing and mitigating security threats in the storage environment
  • Server and storage virtualisation

Information Availability Principles

Business continuity (BC) concepts

  • The causes and impacts of planned and unplanned outages
  • Accounting for the impact of downtime
  • Differentiating between business continuity and disaster recovery
  • The importance of information availability to your business
  • Defining RTO, RPO and RGO

Data availability

  • Detecting potential physical infrastructure failures before they fail
  • Strategies to avoid data vulnerability

Local and remote data replication

  • Inspecting types of replication methods
  • Adopting the appropriate information availability technology

Disaster recovery (DR)

  • Establishing the definition of a disaster
  • Identifying appropriate recovery strategies

Managing and Monitoring Your Data Center

  • Recognising key areas and tasks
  • Assessing industry standards for optimal monitoring
  • Choosing the appropriate management tool for the activity
 
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Storage Technology Foundations Tuition

 
Course: 174   Type: Course Workshops   Duration: 5 Days
 
 

Course 174 Tuition

£ 1,995Standard Tuition
Tuition with a Savings Plan
£ 1,22510-Day Training Pass
£ 995Flex-Training Pass
£ 1,31410-Training Vouchers
£ 1,4045-Training Vouchers
£ 1,795Alumni Gold Tuition

Your Course Fee Entitles You To...

  • Class participation
  • Team workshops
  • Use of in-class hands-on equipment
  • Comprehensive course materials
  • Morning and afternoon refreshments
  • Lunch
  • Course Completion Certificate
  • FREE participation in the Learning Tree Professional Certification Programmes (including related exams)
  
 

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