Dell – Information Storage and Management v5

Dell – Information Storage and Management v5

 

Course Overview

This unique course provides a comprehensive mastery of the various storage infrastructure components and options in a modern data center environment. Participants will learn to apply storage-related technologies in a fast changing and complex IT environment due to the adoption of new technologies such as cloud, edge computing, Big Data, IoT, AI/ML, and 5G).

This course covers intelligent storage systems, networking technologies business continuity solutions, information security, and storage infrastructure management. The course content takes an open-approach to describe all the concepts and technologies, which are further illustrated and reinforced with Dell product examples.

Course Objectives

  • Describe business drivers of digital transformation.
  • Describe modern data center infrastructure and its elements.
  • Explain intelligent storage systems and their types.
  • Evaluate various storage networking technologies and approaches.
  • Describe software-defined storage and networking.
  • Articulate business continuity and data protection solutions (replication, backup, migration, and archiving).
  • Describe storage infrastructure security and management processes.

Who Should Attend?

  • Experienced IT professionals directly managing storage infrastructure
  • IT professionals seeking to better understand the role of storage infrastructure in the modern data center
  • Students and professionals considering a career in the storage industry
  • Organization-wide IT teams responsible for planning, designing, deploying, managing, or leveraging storage infrastructure
  • Individuals whare seeking Dell Technologies Proven Professional Information Storage and Management associate-level certification

Course Prerequisites

  • A basic understanding of computer architecture, operating systems, and networking
  • Participants with experience in specific segments of storage infrastructure would also be able to assimilate the course material

What’s included?

  • Authorized Courseware
  • Intensive Hands on Skills Development with an Experienced Subject Matter Expert
  • Hands-on practice on real Servers and extended lab support 1.800.482.3172
  • Examination Vouchers & Onsite Certification Testing- (excluding Adobe and PMP Boot Camps)
  • Academy Code of Honor: Test Pass Guarantee
  • Optional: Package for Hotel Accommodations, Lunch and Transportation

With several convenient training delivery methods offered, The Academy makes getting the training you need easy. Whether you prefer to learn in a classroom or an online live learning virtual environment, training videos hosted online, and private group classes hosted at your site. We offer expert instruction to individuals, government agencies, non-profits, and corporations. Our live classes, on-sites, and online training videos all feature certified instructors who teach a detailed curriculum and share their expertise and insights with trainees. No matter how you prefer to receive the training, you can count on The Academy for an engaging and effective learning experience.

Methods

  • Instructor-Led (the best training format we offer)
  • Live Online Classroom – Online Instructor-Led
  • Self-Paced Video

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Agenda

Duration
5 Days

Introduction to Information Storage

  • Data and information
  • Key characteristics of a data center
  • Business drivers of digital transformation

Business Drivers of Digital Transformation

  • Cloud Computing
  • Big Data and AI/ML
  • IoT, Edge Computing, and 5G

Modern Data Center Environment

  • Types of compute system, hypervisor, VM, and containers
  • Applications, types of storage and network
  • Software-defined Data Center
  • Modern Data Center Architecture, CI/HCI

Intelligent Storage Systems

  • Types and components of intelligent storage systems
  • RAID
  • Storage provisioning and tiering

Block, File, and Object-based Storage System

  • Block storage system components
  • Scale-up and Scale-out NAS
  • Features and components of Object storage system
  • Unified storage system

Storage Area Network – FC SAN

  • FC SAN Architecture
  • FC topologies and zoning
  • SAN virtualization

IP SAN, FCoE, and NVMe-oF

  • iSCSI components, protocol stack, and VLAN
  • FCIP connectivity, protocol stack, and FCoE
  • NVMe-oF

Software Defined Storage and Network

  • Key attributes of SDS, SDS architecture
  • SDN architecture, benefits

Business Continuity

  • Business continuity overview
  • Fault tolerant IT infrastructure

Data Protection

  • Data replication
  • Backup and recovery
  • Data deduplication
  • Data archiving and migration

Storage Infrastructure Security

  • Introduction to information security
  • Storage security domains and threats
  • Key security controls

Storage Infrastructure Management

  • Introduction to storage management
  • Operations management