Prerequisites

Technical Understanding of Network Concepts, UNIX, RAID etc SAN Fundamentals

• SNIA
• Introduction to Storage Networking – SNIA
• Direct Attached Storage (DAS)
• Network Attached Storage (NAS)
• Storage Area Network (SAN)
• Protocols
• SCSI
• FCP
• FCIP
• IFCP
• ISCSI
• Virtualization Traditional JBOD
• What is a RAID
• RAID Controllers
• Storage Subsystems
• Information Lifecycle Management (ILM)
• HSM
• VTL
• Data Movers
• Business Continuity
• What is RTO
• What is RPO

SAN (Brocade) & Storage (Clariion & Symmetrix) Administration

• Fiber Channels – Brocade FC 100
• Why Fibre Channel?
• FC Theory fundamentals & Introduction.
• FC Layers & Related Components.
• FC Topologies, Terminology & Addressing.
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Expected FC Behavior.

• FC Theory fundamentals summary.
• Brocade Switches & Management
• SilkWorm Introduction.
• Introduction to Hardware & Software Products.
• Installation and Setup.
• Installation of new switches.
• Firmware downloads & Configuration Uploads
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• User Accounts and Password Behaviors.
• Fabric-wide Settings vs. Local Switch Settings
• Core PID & Fabric OS Commands

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• Brocade Zoning.
• Advantages of Zoning.
• Zoning Types
• Soft Zoning
• Hard Zoning
• Mixed Zoning
• Networking.
• Fabric Designs
• FSPF – Fabric Shortest Path First.

Trunking.

• DLS
• MPR
• IFCP
• EMC CLARiiON Host Integration & Management
• Introduction – Course Overview
• Review of Pre-Requisite Modules.
• CLARiiON Architecture.
• CLARiiON Software features.
• CLARRIION Management Utilities.
• Navisphere Manager.
• Management Menu Choices.li>
• Managing the Storage Sys

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• Managing RAID groups.
• Managing LUNs.
• SAN (Brocade) & Storage (Clariion & Symmetr

ix) Administration

• Solaris Integration
• Access Logix
• Defining Access Logix
• Access Logix Operation.

   

• Host Registrationion.
• Managing Storage Groups with Navisphere Manager.
• Advanced LUN Management
• Advanced LUN Concepts.
• Meta LUNs.
• LUN Migration
• PowerPath
• Introduction
• Defining PowerPath Terminology.
• PowerPath Operation.
• Zoning for PowerPath.
• PowerPath Administration.
• Power Path Functionality.
• SnapView Snapshots
• SnapView Snapshots Overview.
• SnapView Operation.
• Reserved LUN Pool Configuration.
• SnapView GUI Administration.
• SnapView Host Interaction.
• Snap View Clones
• Clone Overview.
• Clone Operations.
• Clone Administration.
• Mirror View Configuration & Management
• Functionality of MirrowView/S and MirrowView/A.
• Mirror View Configuration.
• Fracture Log and Write Intent
• Log Operation.
• Mirror View Administration
• Symmetrix Foundation
• Symmetrix Inside – Logical view
• FA, DA and Cache
• EMC physical disk and Symmetrix device (logical volume)
• Read Hit/Miss, Write Hit/Miss
• EMC Symmetrix Solution Enabler
• SAN (Brocade) & Storage (Clariion & Symmetrix) Administration
• Symmetrix/DMX Configuration
• Host HBA installation and configuration
• Solution Enabler to explore Symmetrix internals.
• How many FA, DA and cache & how many physical disks installed,
• why?
• How the logical volumes are formed from physica disks?
• How are the logical volumes mapped to FAs?
• How I/O are performed in Storage Arrays
• Configuration Manager
• Configuration Management Fundamentals
• Creating and Deleting of Hyper Volumes
• Mapping and Unmapping of Devices
• Managing Meta Devices
• Symmetrix DMX Serie Director Pairing
• SRDF R1/R2 Volumes
• Configuration Manager with SRDF

Symmetrix Command Line Interface

• Time Finder configuration and Management
• Symmetrix TimeFinder
• TimeFinder Mirror/BCV
• TimeFinder/Clone
• TimeFinder/Snap
• Zoning and LunMasking to assign STD to production host
• Symconfigure to make BCV and map BCV to FA
• BCV operations (Query/Establish/split)
• Zoning and LunMasking to assign BCV to host
• Split BCV and STD
• Mount STD and BCV using Lun-masking
• Consistent split
• SRDF configuration and Management
• Symmetrix TimeFinder Review
• Symmetrix SRDF
• SRDF operations
• Symmetrix SRDF failover and failback
• Symconfigure to make R1/R2 and map R2 to FA
• RDF operations (Establish/split)
• Mount STD and Failover to DR
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• Zoning and LunMasking to Mount R2 on DR hosts

Modify R2 and Failback to R1 site

• SRDF restore from R2 to R1