Detailed Course Outline
Storage Media
- Storage Tiers
- Storage Media
- When to choose what…
- Tiering
- Efficiency
Storage Access Protocols
- Topologies: DAS, NAS, SAN
- DAS: Direct Attached Storage
- SAN: Storage Area Networks
- SCSI: The Command Set
- FC: Transport Medium
- FCP: Client Protocol
- Ethernet: Transport Medium
- FCoE: Client Protocol
- iSCSI: Client Protocol
- NVMe / NVMe-oF: Modern SCSI replacement
- NAS: Network Attached Storage
- NFS: Client Protocol
- SMB/CIFS: Client Protocol
- Unified Storage
- Gateway
- Object Storage / Cloud
- S3 (Amazon)
Backup Disaster Recovery Archive
- Business Continuity (BC)
- Disaster Recovery (DR)
- High Availability (HA)
- Backup
- Archive
- Security Monitoring Management
- Why is Security Important?
- Secure Multi-Tenancy
- Monitoring
- Management
- Datacenter Provisioning Challenges
Vendor Comparison
- Caveat
- SAN / NAS / Unified Storage
- Integrated Stacks