SNIA SAN Management (SCSE)

Certification training for SNIA Certified Storage Engineer

Exam S10-201

This 5-day technical training will teach the participant about all storage technologies and techniques that are currently deployed in datacenters. All topics will be covered in detail, and most will also be configured in the labs. This course is ideal for participants wanting to know more about storage in general, and for professionals preparing for the SNIA certification. This is the next step for SNIA Certified Storage Professionals (SCSP).

Course details :

Storage Networking Architectures

  • DAS
  • NAS
  • SAN
  • Comparing solutions

I/O interfaces

  • SATA
  • SAS
  • FCAL
  • Comparing interfaces

RAID and subsystem architectures

  • Architectures
  • RAID
  • Logical Units
  • Assigning storage to hosts

Host Architectures

  • Bus Metrics
  • HBA Feature sets
  • HBA Multipathing
  • Virtual servers

FC Protocol architectures

  • FC layered model
  • Upper layer protocol mapping

FC SAN Topologies

  • Point to Point
  • Arbitrated loop
  • Switched Fabric

FC Data constructs

  • FC Data constructs
  • Frame structure
  • Ordered sets and primitives
  • Link services

FC Flow control

  • Classes of service
  • Frame control
  • Buffer credits
  • Buffer credit calculations

FC Addressing and routing

  • FC Addressing
  • WWNs
  • Routing and SFPF
  • Fabric configuration

Fabric design

  • Switched Fabric operations
  • topology designs
  • VSAN
  • LSAN

Fabric services

  • Fabric services
  • Well Known addresses
  • zoning
  • LUN masking and mapping
  • zoning issues

Fabric Login

  • Fabric login
  • Port login
  • Process login

Troubleshooting

  • troubleshooting the SAN

FC SAN extension with IP

  • FCIP
  • iFCP
  • Comparing FCIP and iFCP

FC SAN extention with optical

  • SONET/SDH
  • DWDM
  • CWDM
  • WAN metrics

SAN security management

  • Overview
  • Securing the Fabric
  • FC-SP
  • Best practises

SAN Device management

  • Overview
  • Managing access points
  • Multivendor SANs

Storage Resource management

  • ILM
  • Tiering
  • SRM
  • De-Duplication

Data Protection

  • Backup terminology
  • Backup solutions
  • Virtualisation
  • Snapshots
  • Mirrors
  • Remote Replication

Other topics might be added (like FCoE)

+ Hands-on labs