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Compare traditional direct attached storage with SAN and NAS by outlining shared centralized external storage, its components (controller, disk subsystem, memory, network), and scalability from small to clustered large systems.
Explore how SAN and NAS storage provide centralized, shared storage with improved disk utilization, thin provisioning, deduplication and compression, storage tiering, snapshots, disaster recovery replication, and virtualization support.
Compare HDD and SSD options, including SAS and SATA, and explore nvme, storage class memory, and legacy scuzzy and fc-al, for versatile SAN and NAS storage.
Explore how RAID groups multiple disks into a single unit to deliver redundancy and performance, covering RAID zero, RAID one, RAID four, RAID five, RAID six, and hybrid RAID.
Compare nas and san storage: nas provides file-level access with remote file-system management. San provides block-level access and boot-from-san capability, using protocols such as smb/nfs, iscsi, fcoe, nvme over fabrics.
Learn how SMB/CIFS (shifts) work with NetApp storage and Samba, and configure a virtual storage system, Active Directory integration, DNS records, and shared volumes for redundancy and easy access.
Learn to configure and mount NFS, the network file system, including exports, DNS load balancing, and access to NFS volumes from Linux on an enterprise storage system.
Explore Fibre Channel, the original SAN protocol, and master FCP, WWPN and WWNN addressing, LUNs, initiator and target roles, and how aliases simplify switch and storage configuration.
Learn how Fibre Channel zoning and Lun masking secure storage by isolating servers from each other while granting designated servers access to the storage system.
Explore fibre channel fabric login, switch domain IDs, and automatic fcid assignment for servers and storage. See how log databases, fqdns, zoning, and lun masking enable seamless access.
Highlight redundancy and multipathing in Fibre Channel, with fabric A and fabric B, zoning and lun masking, and Lua to optimize paths for resilient storage access.
Explore fiber channel over ethernet (fcoe) to run storage and data traffic over a shared network, using CNAs, virtualization, and separate data and storage VLANs with PFC for lossless delivery.
Configure fibre channel storage in a lab by creating an fc/fcoe svm, enabling two redundant fibre channel interfaces, mapping an initiator group with wwpns, and provisioning Windows luns.
Explore iSCSI, a mature SAN protocol that runs over Ethernet, detailing initiator discovery, portal groups, and multipath logic, plus security options like password authentication and IPsec.
Learn to configure iSCSI on a storage system, create a two-path setup, provision a LUN for Windows, and connect via iSCSI initiator with multipath.
Learn how NVMe over fabrics enables NVMe as a networked block access protocol, reducing latency over copper or fibre and enabling front-end NVMe with back-end SAS/SATA storage or end-to-end NVMe.
Explore object storage as a scalable, cloud-based, flat-namespace alternative to san and nas, featuring customizable metadata, buckets, and RESTful APIs for unstructured data.
Explore converged and hyper-converged infrastructure and how they simplify deployment compared with traditional data centers. Leverage validated designs and unified management to speed purchase and deploy.
Today's data center and cloud environments have converged infrastructures and management tools, and with the advent of virtualization technologies like VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V, external SAN and NAS storage is becoming a standard. It's no longer possible to get by as an IT professional by knowing only servers, networking or storage, you need an understanding of all three for your career to thrive.
This course will give you the knowledge you need to understand SAN and NAS storage. You'll learn the theory of the CIFS (SMB), NFS, Fibre Channel, iSCSI and FCoE protocols, and see how to configure the storage system and connect from the client with hands-on lab demonstrations.
The lessons are vendor agnostic so they're suitable no matter who the manufacturer of your storage system is. I've used NetApp as the storage system in the live demos but the information is relevant to all vendors.
A verifiable course certificate stating you have completed this training will be provided at the end of the course. This will prove to potential future employers that you have the basic storage knowledge necessary to be an effective member of their IT team, and the motivation to complete further training and be a real asset to their company.
As a student in this course, you will get an answer to every question you ask in the Ask Question section. I love interaction with my students- anything you want to know, please ask.
Thank you for taking the time to read about the course. I hope you now have enough motivation to get into the learning right away. If so, click the blue button at the top of the page to enroll and get started!