Storage Area Network school training courses in Colorado Springs, CO (public, in-house or online)

The Installing and Configuring Storage Area Networks course provides students with hands-on experience in implementing storage area networks with the Sun StorEdge Open SAN Architecture. Students install Sun supported Fibre Channel switches, including Sun StorEdge Network FC switches, Brocade Silkworm switches, and McDATA Sphereon switches. Students then configure various fabric topologies culminating in a large fabric, core/edge configuration. Students also employ techniques such as zoning to co...

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This 8-hour web-based course introduces Fibre Channel SAN terminologies, concepts, components, and topologies. Fibre Channel SAN capabilities, advantages, topologies, and components are defined. Other topics include Fibre Channel architecture, characteristics, and topologies, including Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop (FC-AL), fabric operations, zoning concepts, cabling options, and connectors.

This HP StorageWorks Full-Line Technical Training (WBT) course is designed for a presales technical audience providing the StorageWorks Division “Product line�information. This introductory-level course introduces the technologies and products used to create an end-to-end solution for data storage needs.

Module 1 - Planning Installation of a Fabric SAN

Identify requirements and specifications from a SAN design document
Identify considerations to make various product specifications work together
Identify Fibre Channel methods and their zoning and addressing considerations
Identify the steps for an effective implementation

Module 2 - Creating a SAN Environment

Identify requirements for Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS) SAN fabric implementation
Identify the...

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Upon completion of this bundle of courses, students should be able to:
Differentiate among storage models, and describe the benefits of SANs
Identify components of a SAN and their roles
Differentiate among SAN topologies
Identify how to implement security measures in a SAN using zoning, Logical Unit Number (LUN) masking, and virtualization
Define SAN management issues and requirements
Define Fibre Channel FC) protocol and how it is implemented in storage models