Overview
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Learn about foundational storage administration concepts, and prepare for the SNIA Storage Networking Foundation (S10-110) exam.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- What you should know
- About the exam
- Storage and business and career path
- Fitting storage building blocks together
- Storage today and how we got here
- Problems SANs solve
- Consolidation and DAS
- Consolidation: How to get started
- Implementing backup and recovery SLA
- Tape, backup, and archival
- Cloud storage
- Object IO
- Capacity planning
- Storage performance
- Performance and drives
- Performance engineering tools
- RAID big picture
- RAID types
- Newer RAID
- RAID and service levels
- Block IO and File IO
- Block IO over Ethernet
- Fibre Channel physical view
- Remote datacenter BC/DR
- FC zoning
- SAN failover
- SAN troubleshooting
- Connecting servers
- Storage console operations
- Storage console logical operations
- Storage console snapshot
- Storage console volume copy
- Thin provisioning and virtual machines
- Hard drive deep dive
- Hard drive interfaces
- SSD deep dive
- SSD interfaces and PCI NVMe
- Value comparisons: HDD and SSD
- Scale-up vs. scale-out
- Future of storage industry
- Next steps and additional resources
