Storage Area Networking Fundamentals

This course assumes that you understand basic SAN knowledge.

• Day 1

1. • Welcome
   • Unit 1 – Evolution of storage area networks Unit 2 – Fibre Channel

• Day 2

1. • Unit 3 – Fibre Channel switches and directors: Brocade (b-type)
   • Unit 4 – Brocade DCFM and Network Advisor

• Day 3

1. • Exercise 0 – Lab setup and preliminary instructions
   • Exercise 1 – Brocade switch 2109: Initial configuration Exercise 2 – Management software installation Exercise 3 – Brocade Fabric Manager
   • Exercise 4 – Brocade switch: Zoning configuration Exercise 5 – V3700 storage provisioning using iSCSI Exercise 6 – Brocade VDX fabric merging
   • Unit 5 – Fibre Channel switches and directors: Cisco MDS

• Day 4

1. • Unit 6 – Converged Enhanced Ethernet
   • Unit 7 – Fibre Channel over Ethernet Unit 8 – iSCSI
   • 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