Introduction to SAN and NAS Storage

2h 50mBeginner2018-10-29

Authors

Neil Anderson

Cloud and Data Center Systems Engineer, Instructor

Course details

It's no longer possible to get by as an IT professional by knowing only servers, or networking, or storage. You need an understanding of all three for your career to thrive. Centralized storage technologies—NAS and SAN—combine these capabilities and will test all your skills. This training course provides the knowledge you need to understand and work with SAN and NAS storage. Learn about the types of storage, the benefits, and the strengths of SAN vs. NAS. Instructor Neil Anderson introduces the NAS and SAN protocols—SMB, CIFS, NFS, Fibre Channel, FCoE, iSCSI, and NVMeOF—and shows how to configure a storage system and connect from the client, in featured hands-on lab demonstrations.

Learning objectives
What is centralized storage?
The benefits of centralized storage
Comparing SAN and NAS solutions
NAS protocols
SAN protocols

Skills covered

Network AdministrationNetwork and System AdministrationOne-Off

Concepts

Welcome

01 - About this course

1. Storage Foundations

02 - What is centralized storage
03 - The benefits of SAN and NAS storage
04 - Storage media types
05 - RAID
06 - Comparing SAN and NAS storage

2. NAS Protocols

07 - SMB and CIFS - Overview and configuration
08 - NFS - Overview and configuration

3. SAN Protocols

09 - Fibre Channel, part 1 - FCP and WWPN addressing
10 - Fibre Channel, part 2 - Security - zoning and LUN masking
11 - Fibre Channel, part 3 - The fabric login
12 - Fibre Channel, part 4 - Redundancy and multipathing
13 - FCoE overview
14 - Fibre Channel and FCoE configuration
15 - iSCSI overview
16 - iSCSI configuration
17 - NVMeOF overview

4. Wrap-Up

18 - Thank you