Introduction
Welcome
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What you should know
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1. The Storage Networking Foundations Exam
About the exam
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2. Storage and Business
Storage and business and career path
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Fitting storage building blocks together
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Storage today and how we got here
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Problems SANs solve
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3. Consolidation and Service Level Agreements
Consolidation and DAS
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Consolidation: How to get started
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Implementing backup and recovery SLA
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Tape, backup, and archival
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Cloud storage
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Object IO
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Capacity planning
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4. Storage Performance
Storage performance
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Performance and drives
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Performance engineering tools
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5. RAID and Storage Networks
RAID big picture
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RAID types
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Newer RAID
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RAID and service levels
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6. Block IO and File IO
Block IO and File IO
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Block IO over Ethernet
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7. Physical View and Putting a SAN Together
Fibre Channel physical view
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Remote datacenter BC/DR
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FC zoning
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SAN failover
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SAN troubleshooting
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8. Logical View and Connecting Servers
Connecting servers
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Storage console operations
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Storage console logical operations
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Storage console snapshot
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Storage console volume copy
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Thin provisioning and virtual machines
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9. Spinning Drives and Solid State Devices
Hard drive deep dive
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Hard drive interfaces
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SSD deep dive
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SSD interfaces and PCI NVMe
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Value comparisons: HDD and SSD
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10. Innovations and Future Storage
Scale-up vs. scale-out
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Future of storage industry
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Conclusion
Next steps and additional resources
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