Course Details

The content of this course is designed to support the course objectives and is provided in a role-based structure.

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Module 1: Introduction to Information Storage
• Digital data and its types
• Information storage
• Key characteristics of data center
• Evolution of computing platforms

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Module 2: Third Platform Technologies
• Cloud computing and its essential characteristics
• Cloud services and cloud deployment models
• Big data analytics
• Social networking and mobile computing
• Characteristics of third platform infrastructure
• Imperatives for third platform transformation

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Module 3: Data Center Infrastructure
• Building blocks of a data center
• Compute systems and compute virtualization
• Software-defined data center

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Module 4: Intelligent Storage Systems
• Components of an intelligent storage system
• Components, addressing, and performance of HDD and SDD
• RAID
• Types of intelligent storage systems
• Scale-up and scale-out storage architecture

Module 5: Block-based Storage System
• Components of block-based storage system
• Storage provisioning and storage tiering

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Module 6: File-based Storage System
• Components and architecture of NAS
• NAS file sharing methods
• File-level virtualization and tiering

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Module 7: Object-based and Unified Storage
• Components of object-based storage device (OSD)
• Key features of OSD
• Storage and retrieval process in OSD system
• Unified storage architecture

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Module 8: Software-defined Storage
• Attributes of software-defined storage
• Architecture of software-defined storage
• Functions of the control plane
• Software-defined storage extensibility

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Module 9: Fibre Channel SAN
• Software-defined networking
• FC SAN components and architecture
• FC SAN topologies, link aggregation, and zoning
• Virtualization in FC SAN environment

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Module 10: Internet Protocol SAN
• iSCSI protocol, network components, and connectivity
• Link aggregation, switch aggregation, and VLAN
• FCIP protocol, connectivity, and configuration

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Module 11: Fibre Channel over Ethernet SAN
• Components of FCoE SAN
• FCoE SAN connectivity
• Converged Enhanced Ethernet
• FCoE architecture

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Module 12: Introduction to Business Continuity
• Impact of information unavailability
• Business continuity planning lifecycle
• Eliminating single points of failure
• Application resiliency

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Module 13: Backup and Archive
• Backup architecture
• Backup targets and methods
• Data deduplication
• Cloud-based and mobile device backup
• Data archive

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Module 14: Replication
• Uses of replication and its characteristics
• Compute-based, storage-based, and network-based replication
• Data migration
• Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS)

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Module 15: Securing the Storage Infrastructure
• Information security goals
• Storage security domains
• Threats to a storage infrastructure
• Security controls to protect a storage infrastructure
• Governance, risk, and compliance

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Module 16: Managing the Storage Infrastructure
• Storage infrastructure management functions
• Storage infrastructure management processes