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Lesson 1: MDS 9000 Platform Components and Architecture
- The MDS 9000 Platform
- The MDS 9000 Modules
- Crossbar and Supervisor Module Architecture
- MDS Switching Module Architectures
- MDS Switching Module Oversubscription
- Exercise: Selecting the Optimum Line Card
- Installation Guidelines
- Configuring Power Supplies
- Supervisor and Line Card Modules Installation
Lesson 2: Intelligent Fabric Services
- SMB and Enterprise SAN Requirements and Consolidation Methods
- The MDS 9000 Virtual SAN
- MDS Intelligent Services Modules
- I/O Acceleration
- FC-Redirect
Lesson 3: SAN Design Overview
- The SAN Design Methodology
- Small and Midrange Deployments
- Enterprise Data Center Deployments
Lesson 4: Application Architecture
- Application Architecture Tiers
- Presentation Tier Design
- Application Tier Design
- Storage Tier Design
- High-Performance Computing
Lesson 5: Designing Host Connectivity
- Applications and Latency
- Measuring IOPS
- Host I/O Throughput
- Selecting the Optimum Port Type
- Exercise: Calculating Host I/O Requirements
Lesson 6: Designing Storage Connectivity
- Array Architecture Overview
- RAID Overview
- Selecting the Optimum Port Type
Lesson 7: Building the SAN
- Collapsed Core Architecture
- Core-Edge Fabrics
- Oversubscription Considerations
- PortChannels
- Traffic Engineering and QoS
Lesson 8: Redundant Fabric Design
- Redundancy and High Availability
- Redundant Fabrics
- Load Balancing Methods
- Calculating Throughput
- Restricted Bandwidth
- Virtual Fabrics
- IVR Overview
Lesson 9: Consolidating Storage in the Data Center
- The Benefits of Consolidation
- SAN Fabric Consolidation with VSANs
- Fibre Channel Over Ethernet
- Server Consolidation and Virtualization
- Storage Consolidation
- Storage Virtualization
- FAIS Overview
- Array Based Replication
- Snapshots and Replication
- SANTap Overview
- Backup Overview
Lesson 10: Analyzing Business Objectives
- RTO and RPO
- Recovery Methods
- The RDBMS Recovery process
- Snapshots and Replication
- SANTap Overview
- Backup Overview
- Latency and Distance Limitations
Lesson 11: SAN Extension Solutions
- RTO and RPO
- Recovery Methods
- The RDBMS Recovery process
- Latency and Distance Limitations
- DWDM and CWDM
- Credits and Buffers
- SONET and SDH
- ONS 15454 MSTP
- FCIP Protocol Overview
- Planning for High Availability
- Exercise: Selecting an Appropriate Platform
Lesson 12: Migration and Interoperability
- Multi-Vendor SANs
- Migrating from Third Party Fabrics
- Data Migration
- Simplifying SAN Migration
Lesson 13: SCSI Overview
- SCSI Protocol
- SCSI Addressing
- SCSI Architecture Model
- SCSI Commands
- Building an I/O Request
- Error Handling
Lesson 14: Fibre Channel Overview
- Fibre Channel Topologies
- Fibre Channel Ports
- Cisco MDS Ports
- FC Layers
- FC Frame Structure
- FC Data Constructs
- FC Flow Control
- Allocating Buffer Credits
- FC Addressing
- Fibre Channel Login
- Zoning Overview
- Fabric Services
- Well-Known Addresses
- FSPF Routing
- FC Error Handling
Lesson 15: Installing Switch Hardware
- Installation Guidelines
- Configuring Power Supplies
- Supervisor and Line Card Modules Installation
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