Designing Cisco Storage Networking Solutions
Course
Inhouse
Description
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Type
Course
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Methodology
Inhouse
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Duration
5 Days
DCSNS is a 5day handson workshop that starts with the basics of the MDS 9000 platform and covers everything you'll need to prepare for the Cisco Storage Networking Design Specialist (CSNDS) certification exam. You will learn about the key features of the MDS 9000 platform, and how to leverage these features to build highly available, extensible, intelligent SANs. This course includes. Suitable for: This course provides indepth technical training for presales engineers, system engineers, and network engineers who need to design SAN fabrics using MDS 9000 Series switches.
About this course
Understanding of basic data storage components and protocols and Fibre Channel SANs is recommended.
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Course programme
Course description
DCSNS is a 5-day hands-on workshop that starts with the basics of the MDS 9000 platform and covers everything you’ll need to prepare for the Cisco Data Center Storage Networking Design Specialist (DCSNS) certification exam.
You will learn about the key features of the MDS 9000 platform, and how to leverage these features to build highly available, extensible, intelligent SANs.
This course includes hands-on labs to familiarize you with basic MDS 9000 configuration procedures, and design workshops where you will learn to design multiprotocol SANs and SAN extension solutions.
Learning objectives
After you complete this course, you will be able to:
- Select MDS 9000 platform components to meet SAN design objectives
- Describe the MDS system architecture
- Identify host and storage connectivity and performance requirements
- Design a SAN topology that optimizes fan-in and fan-out, oversubscription, port usage, and redundancy
- Simplify device management with FCID assignment and DDAS
- Explain the options for interoperating with and migrating from Brocade SAN fabrics
- Discuss how key MDS 9000 technologies enable and simplify SAN consolidation
- Explain how to segregate, load-balance, and prioritize application data flows to improve performance
- Design an MDS 9000 iSCSI configuration for mid-range application hosts
- Describe common SAN security vulnerabilities and mitigation techniques
- Discuss key concepts in disaster recovery and business continuity planning
- Design SAN extension solutions using FCIP, WDM, and TDM networks
- Design SAN extension solutions to meet application reliability and performance requirements
Who should attend
This course provides in-depth technical training for pre-sales engineers, system engineers, and network engineers who need to design SAN fabrics using MDS 9000 Series switches.
Recommended prerequisites
Understanding of basic data storage components and protocols and Fibre Channel SANs is recommended.
Related training
- Implementing Cisco Storage Networking Solutions (ICSNS)
- Implementing Advanced Cisco Storage Networking Solutions (IASNS)
Designing Cisco Storage Networking Solutions