Information Storage and Management V5

PREREQUISITE KNOWLEDGE/SKILLS

To successfully complete this course, a student should have:

• A basic understanding of computer architecture, operating systems, and networking
• Participants with experience in specific segments of storage infrastructure would also be able to assimilate the course material

COURSE OUTLINE

The content of this course is designed to support the course objectives.

Introduction to Information Storage

• Data and information
• Key characteristics of a data center
• Business drivers of digital transformation

Business Drivers of Digital Transformation

• Cloud Computing
• Big Data and AI/ML
• IoT, Edge Computing, and 5G

Modern Data Center Environment

• Types of compute system, hypervisor, VM, and containers
• Applications, types of storage and network
• Software-defined Data Center
• Modern Data Center Architecture, CI/HCI

Intelligent Storage Systems

• Types and components of intelligent storage systems
• RAID
• Storage provisioning and tiering

Block, File, and Object-based Storage System

• Block storage system components
• Scale-up and Scale-out NAS
• Features and components of Object storage system
• Unified storage system

Storage Area Network – FC SAN

• FC SAN Architecture
• FC topologies and zoning
• SAN virtualization

IP SAN, FCoE, and NVMe-oF

• iSCSI components, protocol stack, and VLAN
• FCIP connectivity, protocol stack, and FCoE
• NVMe-oF

Software Defined Storage and Network

• Key attributes of SDS, SDS architecture
• SDN architecture, benefits

Business Continuity

• Business continuity overview
• Fault tolerant IT infrastructure

Data Protection

• Data replication
• Backup and recovery
• Data deduplication
• Data archiving and migration

Storage Infrastructure Security

• Introduction to information security
• Storage security domains and threats
• Key security controls

Storage Infrastructure Management

• Introduction to storage management
• Operations management