Storage Area Networking Fundamentals

Course overview

This is a base course for individuals who are involved in the planning, installing, configuring, and upgrading of IBM systems.

IBM offers a comprehensive portfolio of SAN switches, storage, software, services and solutions to reliably bring information to people in a cost effective way. IBM provides flexible, scalable and open standards-based business-class and global enterprise-class storage networking solutions for the on demand world.This course provides an overview of storage network and data center networking technology. It reviews SAN concepts, Fibre Channel architecture, SAN topologies, IBM b-type offerings, IBM offerings from Cisco, and SAN over Ethernet architectures, such as iSCSI and FCoE.

Prerequisites

The following course, or equivalent knowledge, is required prior to this course:• Introduction to Storage (SS01G)

Delivery formats

• • Instructor-led online (virtual classroom)
• • Instructor-led on-site at your premises
• • Self-paced online training
• • Private/closed group delivery for corporate teams

Related and follow-on courses

• SS01G — Introduction to Storage (Basic)
• SS83G — z/OS VSAM and Access Method Services (Intermediate)
• SS84G — DFSMS Implementation (Intermediate)
• SS86G — DFSMShsm Implementation (Intermediate)