This course is intended for Field Engineers and System Engineers. This course will validate an individual's knowledge of installing, configuring, and troubleshooting Cisco storage products to maintain a highly scalable, efficient, high performing storage networking environment.

At the end of the course delegates will be able to;-

• Implement a SAN with multiple virtual fabrics using the full range of features and capabilities provided by the Cisco MDS platform, so that the SAN demonstrates high availability, scalability, performance, and interoperability.
• Configure and use fabric management, performance management and security services on the Cisco MDS platform so that the SAN can be effectively managed, tuned and secured.

• Diagnose and correct software configuration issues and inoperable hardware components, so that the problems are resolved with minimal disruption to the SAN environment.
• Identify and configure the appropriate iSCSI features to meet customer requirements.

Building Enterprise SAN Fabrics

• Configuring Advanced Fabric Services
• Implementing Virtual Fabric Addressing
• Implementing Inter-VSAN Routing
• Tuning Fabric Performance
• Building Heterogeneous Fabrics

Implementing Management and Security Services

• Management Infrastructure Implementation
• Monitoring Health and Performance
• Configuring AAA Services
• Implementing Port and Fabric Security

Advanced Troubleshooting

• Basic Troubleshooting Tools Review
• Capturing Protocol Traces
• Using Physical Port Diagnostics
• Troubleshooting Combined Generation 1 and Generation 2 Hardware Components
• Troubleshooting FX_Port Issues
• Troubleshooting the Data Path
• Troubleshooting Fabric Manager and Device Manager

Implementing iSCSI

• iSCSI Protocol Overview
• Basic iSCSI Configuration
• iSCSI Implementation OptionsiS
• CSI Server Load Balancing

The following courses are recommended for further study

• DCSNS – Designing Cisco Storage Network Solutions.