Module 1; MDS 9000 Platforn Overview
MDS 9000 Platform Components
- The MDS 9000 Platform
- MDS 9000 Supervisor Modules
- Oversubscription
- MDS 9000 Modules
- Installation Guidelines
- Configuring Power Supplies
Intelligent Network Services
- VSAN Overview
- DPVM Overview
- Multiprotocol Support
- High Availability Features
- Traffic Engineering Features
- Security Features
Integrated Management
- Command Line Interface
- Cisco Fabric Manager
- Cisco Device Manager
- Fabric Manager Server
- Performance Manager and Traffic Analyzer
- License Packages
Initial Switch Configuration
- System Memory Areas
- Boot Sequence
- Initial Setup
- Installing Fabric Manager
- Lesson 5: System Architecture
- Crossbar and Supervisor Module Architecture
- MDS Line Card Module Architectures
- Virtual Output Queues
- Port Bandwidth Reservation
- Exercise: Selecting the Optimum Line Card
Module 2: Designing SAN Fabrics
SAN Design Overview
- The SAN Design Methodology
- Small and Midrange Deployments
- Enterprise Data Center Deployments
Application Architecture
- Application Architecture Tiers
- Presentation Tier Design
- Application Tier Design
- Storage Tier Design
- High-Performance Computing
Designing Host Connectivity
- Applications and Latency
- Measuring IOPS
- Host I/O Throughput
- Selecting the Optimum Port Type
- Exercise: Calculating Host I/O Requirements
Designing Storage Connectivity
- Array Architecture Overview
- RAID Overview
- Selecting the Optimum Port Type
- LUN Masking on the Array
- LUN Mapping on the Host
- Single Initiator Zoning
- LUN Zoning
- SAN Device Virtualization
- RSCN Issues
Building the SAN
- Fabric Design Considerations
- Collapsed Core Architecture
- Core-Edge Fabrics
- PortChannels
- Selecting the Correct Switch Port Type
Redundant Fabric Design
- Redundancy and High Availability
- Redundant Fabrics
- Load Balancing Methods
- Calculating Throughput
- Restricted Bandwidth
- Virtual Fabrics
Simplifying Device Management
- FCID Assignment
- Distributed Device Alias Services
- CFS Infrastructure
Module 3: Consolidating Storage in the Data Center
Consolidating Storage in the Data Center
- The Benefits of Consolidation
- Server Virtualization
- Network Consolidation
- Storage Consolidation
- Storage Virtualization
- FAIS Overview
- Snapshots and Replication
- Array Based Replication
- SANTap Overview
- Backup Overview
- NASB Overview
Designing Interoperable SANs
- Interoperability Modes
- MultiVendor SANs
- Data Migration
- Migrating from Brocade and McDATA Fabrics
iSCSI Host Usage
- Addressing Midrange Application Requirements
- iSCSI Overview
- iSCSI Performance
- When to Deploy iSCSI
- Native iSCSI Deployment
- iSCSI Gateways
- iSCSI Gateway Function
- MDS 9000 iSCSI Options
- MDS 9000 iSCSI High-Availability
Module 4: Securing the SAN
Securing the SAN Fabric
- Discussion: How Secure is a SAN?
- Loss of Privacy
- AAA Overview
- SAN Vulnerabilities-Data Theft and Integrity
- Zoning Overview
- LUN Masking and LUN Zoning
- Impersonation
- Denial of Service
Module 5: Designing SAN Extension Solutions
Analyzing Business Objectives
- RTO and RPO
- Recovery Methods
- Synchronous and Asynchronous Replication
- The RDBMS Recovery process
- Latency and Distance Limitations
- Snapshots and Continuous Data Protection
Connecting SANs with Optical Networks
- Dark Fiber
- DWDM
- CWDM
- SONET and SDH
- ONS 15454 MSTP
Connecting SANs with IP Networks
- FCIP Protocol Overview
- FCIP Specifications
- FCIP Topologies
- Comparing SAN Extension Solutions
- Exercise: Selecting an Appropriate Platform
Improving Performance, Availability, and Security
- Protecting Remote SANs with IVR
- Planning for High Availability
- High Availability Solutions
- Performance Overview
- Buffer Credit Overview
- Credits and Buffers
- Exercise: Calculating Buffer Credits
- FC Write Acceleration
- TCP Performance Tuning
- Encrypting Data
- FCIP Write Acceleration
- FCIP Tape Acceleration
- FCIP Tape Read Acceleration
- FCIP Compression
- Encrypting Data in Transit
- Exercise: Calculating WAN Throughput