Description
Who should attend
This is a base course for individuals who are involved in the planning, installing, configuring, and upgrading of IBM systems.
Prerequisites
The following course, or equivalent knowledge, is required prior to this course: • Introduction to Storage (SS01)
For additional course information and roadmaps please visit our training site:
www.ibm.com/training
Course Objectives
After completing this course, you should be able to:
- Classify the components of a SAN infrastructure
- Appraise the Fibre Channel architecture and terms
- Classify the three major components of a SAN
- Differentiate the features of the IBM Storage System b-type switch offerings
- Differentiate the features of the IBM offered Cisco SAN switches and directors
- Evaluate the implementations of iSCSI and FCoE
Outline: Storage Area Networking Fundamentals (SN71G)
Day 1
Welcome• Unit 1 – SAN Concepts• Unit 2 – Fibre Channel• Unit 3 – SAN design and topology (1 of 2)
Day 2
• Unit 3 – SAN design and topology (2 of 2) (continued)• Unit 4 – IBM Fibre Channel b-type switches and directors
Day 3
• Exercise 0 – Lab setup and preliminary instructions• Exercise 1 – Switch management overview• Exercise 2 – Management software installation• Exercise 3 – Zoning configuration• Exercise 4 – Configuring the IBM Storwize V3700 storage system• Exercise 5 – V3700 storage provisioning using iSCSI• Exercise 6 – Brocade VDX fabric merging• Unit 5 – Cisco MDS Fibre Channel switches and directors
Day 4
• Unit 6 – SAN over Ethernet• Exercise 7 – Basic configuration• Exercise 8 – Management tools installation• Exercise 9 – VSAN creation• Exercise 10 – Zoning configuration on Cisco• Exercise 11 – Configuring the DS3500 storage subsystem
