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Designing Cisco Storage Networking Solutions (DCSNS) v3.2
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5 days
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Lecture/lab
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| Course description |
DCSNS is a 5-day hands-on workshop that starts with the basics of the MDS 9000 platform and covers everything you’ll need to prepare for the Cisco Storage Networking Design Specialist (CSNDS) certification exam.
You will learn about the key features of the MDS 9000 platform, and how to leverage these features to build highly available, extensible, intelligent SANs.
This course includes hands-on labs to familiarize you with basic MDS 9000 configuration procedures, and design workshops where you will learn to design multiprotocol SANs and SAN extension solutions.
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| Learning objectives |
After you complete this course, you will be able to:
- Select MDS 9000 platform components to meet SAN design objectives
- Describe the MDS system architecture
- Identify host and storage connectivity and performance requirements
- Design a SAN topology that optimizes fan-in and fan-out, oversubscription, port usage, and redundancy
- Simplify device management with FCID assignment and DDAS
- Explain the options for interoperating with Brocade and McDATA fabrics
- Discuss how key MDS 9000 technologies enable and simplify SAN consolidation
- Explain how to segregate, load-balance, and prioritize application data flows to improve performance
- Design an MDS 9000 iSCSI configuration for mid-range application hosts
- Describe common SAN security vulnerabilities and mitigation techniques
- Discuss key concepts in disaster recovery and business continuity planning
- Design SAN extension solutions using FCIP, WDM, and TDM networks
- Design SAN extension solutions to meet application reliability and performance requirements
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| Who should attend |
This course provides in-depth technical training for pre-sales engineers, system engineers, and network engineers who need to design SAN fabrics using MDS 9000 Series switches.
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| Recommended prerequisites |
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Understanding of basic data storage components and protocols and Fibre Channel SANs is recommended.
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| Related training |
This course replaces the following courses:- CMSNF
- CSDE
- Cisco Storage Design BootCamp
Students who need to implement as well as design MDS 9000 SANs should also take Implementing Cisco Storage Networking Solutions (ICSNS).
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