SAN (Brocade) & Storage (Symmetrix) Administration

Course Description
This course mainly revolves around the cutting-edge SAN & Storage technologies of UNIX, SAN, and Storage. This
training programme provides a comprehensive introduction to SAN, Brocade Switches & Storage Administration in
EMC Symmetrix Product line technologies that will enable you to make more informed decisions in an increasingly
complex IT environment. It builds a strong understanding of underlying storage technologies and prepares you to learn
advanced concepts, technologies, and products.
Course Code: RRS3; Category: Storage; Hardware: EMC Symmetrix DMX 1000, 800Series, Brocade Silkworm 3800,
3250, AP7420, and Sun Server FireV240. V120, Sun Blade 100 Workstations & Sun Solaris 10 OS.
Audience
This course is intended for system administrators, system engineers and technical support personnel, and system
integration staff who are responsible for strong understanding of Storage Technologies.
Prerequisites
Technical Understanding of Network Concepts, UNIX, RAID etc
Course Outline
SAN Fundamentals
SNIA
Introduction to Storage
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

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Fiber Channels Brocade FC 100
Why Fibre Channel?
FC Theory fundamentals & Introduction.
FC Layers & Related Components.
FC Topologies, Terminology & Addressing.
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
User Accounts and Password Behaviors.
Fabric-wide Settings vs. Local Switch Settings
Core PID & Fabric OS Commands.
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
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
Symmetrix/DMX Configuration Manager
Lab

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 physical disks?
How are the logical volumes mapped to FAs?
How I/O are performed in Storage Arrays
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Configuration Manager
Configuration Management Fundamentals
Creating and Deleting of Hyper Volumes
Mapping and Unmapping of Devices
Managing Meta Devices
Symmetrix DMX Series 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
Lab
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
Lab 5

Symconfigure to make R1/R2 and map R2 to FA

RDF operations (Establish/split)
Mount STD and Failover to DR
Zoning and LunMasking to Mount R2 on DR hosts
Modify R2 and Failback to R1 site
SRDF restore from R2 to R1

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