Fast Lane Introduces Newly Developed Course: Cisco MDS 9000 Technical Pre-Sales Training (CMDSPS)

Pre-sales training for Cisco’s data center and storage networking range

October 25, 2007 – Cisco Learning Solutions Partner Fast Lane has, with immediate effect, the Cisco MDS 9000 Technical Pre-Sales Training (CMDSPS) course new in the program. This seminar has been specially developed by Fast Lane in collaboration with Cisco for qualifying pre-sales and systems engineers. The two-day CMDSPS training offers a comprehensive overview over current Cisco MDS solutions such as Virtual SANs (VSANs), Switch Port Analyzer (SPAN), and iSCSI Solutions as well as their installation.

Hands-on experienced Cisco storage specialists with comprehensive technology and sales know-how will impart to systems engineers and pre-sales how they convince their customers of the advantages of a MDS solution. Particularly, the value-ad when using a secure Cisco solution for managing, protecting, and scaling data center solutions with a focus on architecture, management, and implementation will be clearly demonstrated in the course of the course.

Overview over course content:
  • MDS 9000: Product overview & advantages
  • Overview over major software features
  • Security
  • Performance & traffic management
  • interoperability; migration problems from fabrics of other vendors to a Cisco fabric
  • integrated management & integrated diagnoses
  • Cisco solutions
  • configuration: setting up a switch, implementing a VSAN structure, zoning