Introduction to SAN and NAS Storage

Understand the basics plus more of Storage Area Networks SAN and Network Attached Storage NAS

What you’ll learn

Introduction to SAN and NAS Storage

Understand the basics plus more of Storage Area Networks and Network Attached Storage
Be a more rounded and effective member of an IT team
Understand the difference between SAN and NAS
Connect to CIFS (SMB) NAS storage from a Windows client
Connect to NFS storage from a Linux client
Connect to iSCSI storage from a Windows client
Understand the intricacies of Fibre Channel SAN
Understand Fibre Channel over Ethernet FCoE
Perform a basic configuration of SAN and NAS storage on a NetApp storage system

Requirements

Basic knowledge of computer networks
No previous storage knowledge is necessary

Description

Today’s data center and cloud environments have converged infrastructures and management tools, and with the advent of virtualization technologies like VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V, external SAN and NAS storage is becoming a standard. It’s no longer possible to get by as an IT professional by knowing only servers, networking, or storage, you need an understanding of all three for your career to thrive.

This course will give you the knowledge you need to understand SAN and NAS storage. You’ll learn the theory of the CIFS (SMB), NFS, Fibre Channel, iSCSI, and FCoE protocols, and see how to configure the storage system and connect with the client with hands-on lab demonstrations.

The lessons are vendor agnostic so they’re suitable no matter who the manufacturer of your storage system is. I’ve used NetApp as the storage system in the live demos but the information is relevant to all vendors.

A verifiable course certificate stating you have completed this training will be provided at the end of the course. This will prove to potential future employers that you have the basic storage knowledge necessary to be an effective member of their IT team, and the motivation to complete further training and be a real asset to their company.

As a student in this course, you will get an answer to every question you ask in the Ask Question section. I love the interaction with my students- anything you want to know, please ask.

Thank you for taking the time to read about the course. I hope you now have enough motivation to get into the learning right away. If so, click the blue button at the top of the page to enroll and get started!