SNIA Storage Networking Management and Administration

2012 Technology Center Course Schedule
Please note: This is NOT a web-based training course. This course is taught in-person at the SNIA Technology Center in Colorado Springs, CO. Credit card payment is due at the time of registration to ensure a seat.
Course	Date	Location
Dates for instructor led classes will be planned for Summer 2012. To help you prepare for the exam, you may purchase an Electronic Study Guide for the Storage Management and Administration Course

Course Description

This course will give you the knowledge needed to manage and administer a SAN using Fibre Channel technology.

This course will cover Fibre Channel specific topics for the day to day management of a storage networking environment and data center. This course will not cover basic concepts and technologies or detailed developer topics.

This course focuses on the objectives defined for the SNIA Storage Networking Management/Administration exam (S10-200). This exam has been carefully constructed to certify that the successful candidate has the knowledge necessary to fulfill their responsibilities as a FC Storage Administrator. The exam objectives were derived from a SNIA sanctioned Job Task Analysis. The JTA was structured to determine the skills needed by a Storage Administrator.

This course will prepare you to take the SNIA Storage Networking Management/Administration (S10-200).

Course Format

Instructor Led Lecture and Discussion

Course Prerequisites

SNIA Storage Network Foundations
Understanding of traditional Networking Technology
Understanding of traditional SCSI/Disk Technology

Intended Audience

Personnel who need to implement and manage a fibre channel SAN

Course Outline

Network Administration

Identify steps or criteria for planning future growth of a Fibre Channel SAN
Identify steps for storage allocation in a Fibre Channel SAN
Create storage layouts using partitioning, protected data, security as criteria
Identify criteria for planning connectivity
Create implementation policy objectives
Determine port assignments

Applied Fibre Channel Protocol (Change Management)

Given a scenario, where the environment changes, identify steps needed to bring the environment back to a controlled situation.
Given a scenario, troubleshoot a change management situation
Given a scenario, analyze port log-in, fabric log-in and process log-in
Given a scenario, assess the performance of a network storage environment
Given a scenario, develop and follow steps for problem resolution
Given a scenario, Identify potential bottlenecks
Identify the performance implications on the fabric involving RAID, caching and connectivity configurations
Establish baselines for performance
Monitor performance and throughput of storage device ports
Monitor performance and throughput of ISLs (Inter Switch Links)
Determine the impact of replication techniques on local and remote fabrics
Given a scenario, identify steps in performance problem analysis

Storage Networking Management

Given a scenario, optimize redundancy within a switched environment
Identify HBA configuration parameters
Given a scenario, determine methodologies or tools to troubleshoot volume management issues
Identify steps to add a configured switch to an existing fabric
Determine reasons to add or remove ISLs (Inter Switch Links)
Identify the processes that occur on a switch during a fabric merge
Given a scenario, calculate storage network device latency and propagation delay
Identify performance considerations of fan-in, fan-out
Identify ISL over-subscription advantages and disadvantages
Identify the distance limitations between long-wave and short-wave Fibre
Create/modify zone sets
Identify steps to make a LUN visible to specific host HBAs (LUN Mapping) and its implications on the fabric (SMI-S specified)
Identify the possible zoning conflicts that could cause fabric segmentation
Determine methodologies or tools to troubleshoot zoning issues
Given a scenario, show the tasks involved in monitoring and adhering to capacity planning processes

Business Continuance

Identify methods for Implementing business recovery solutions using Fibre channel extension
Identify components that should be used as part of a business continuance solution
Given a scenario, identify information protection solutions using Fibre channel
Identify steps to implement clustering in order to prevent single point of failure
Given a scenario, demonstrate how to perform data transfers/migrations/ replications

Backup and Recovery

Identify steps to restore Data from Backup
Identify performance bottlenecks and how to correct them as it pertains to backup and recovery
Given a scenario, analyze backup configuration to identify potential problems
Determine database components and configurations to satisfy a backup and recovery solution
Identify steps to track error logs within the operating system for backup and recovery messages

Fibre Channel Security