STS-3370: SAN Installation, Configuration & Troubleshooting

Course Description:
This course is designed as a customized presentation to help organizations manage and support their Fibre Channel SAN environment. The primary goal of the session is to educate Solaris-knowledgeable staff on the planning, procedures, configuration, troubleshooting and maintenance of the SAN environment.

The course as taught at the STS location in Reno/Sparks, uses EMC Symmetrix disk arrays in a Fibre Channel environment using brocade switches and JNIC HBA's. The course can be customized for the storage array model(s), switches, and HBAs installed in the customers organization or available for training use. By choosing the appropriate course modules, a course explicitly fitted to the local environment is produced, providing more value to the student.

This is not a SAN architecture course. Reasons for choosing one overall SAN architecture as opposed to another are not covered. The course focus is on implementing a specified configuration in the most resiliant and performant manner possible. Best practices and serviceability issues are a major focus. The course materials may include various hand-outs, documentation and forms useful in managing the SAN environment. The session is intended to provide a thorough look at the major functionality of the storage array hardware and software environment. There are extensive hands-on labs.

Who Can Benefit:
This course is for architects, planners and administrators of a SAN-based environment. It assumes that the audience will be configuring and administering all aspects of the environment except, in some cases, for the storage array configuration itself. Other SAN equipment can be substituted, provided that appropriate product documentation and hardware access is available to develop the necessary material.

Major Topics Include:

SAN Overview Gathering Information LUN Masking Host HBA Configuration Multipathing Configuration Miscellaneous

Planning Array Configurations FC Switch Configuration and Zoning Host sd.conf Configuration Fibre Channel Tape Devices

Prerequisites:
Attendees are expected to possess basic Unix system administration skills. While the course is taught using the Sun Solaris environment, detailed knowledge of Solaris is not required. However, the instructor may not have time to teach students prerequisite skills that they are lacking.

Attendees should be able to:

• Perform basic Unix system administration tasks
• Understand basic Unix I/O concepts
• Create and mount file systems using the newfs or mkfs and mount commands

Duration: 5 days Tuition: $3395

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