Storage Assessment, Planning & Design (SCSA)

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Duration : 5 Days

Overview

This course presents the process of storage assessment, planning, and design in vendor neutral terms. It covers the assessment of business requirements and subsequent matching to storage capabilities. It discusses calculating capacity and performance modelling and then integrates requirements and capabilities to create real solutions. The course is both theoretical and practical.  The practical work is accomplished in small teams of students.

This course also prepares the student for the SNIA S10-300 Storage Assessment, Planning and Design exam which confers the SNIA Certified Storage Architect (SCSA) certification.

Intended Audience

Those responsible for gathering and interpreting the business requirements and then performing the planning and design of Storage and SAN systems to meet those needs.

Top teir technical support of new and existing storage produces and services.

Experienced development, administration, implementation, delivery, support and management staff. 

Prerequisites

• S10-101 Storage Network Fundamentals (or equivalent knowledge).
• S10-201 is recomended (but not mandatory)
• Strong IT literacy, ideallty five years experience in IT and two years in Storage Operations.
• Knowledge in at least one operating system.

Objectives

• Be able to assess, plan and design across all storage disciplines and products
• Design storage solutions to meet business requirments. 

Materials Issued

Topics

• Assess - Gather current and future state requirements, documenting behaviours, conditions, and interactions on and between information systems. Identify storage capabilities needed to meet requirements, creating an idealized future-state. Gather technical data about the current storage infrastructure, using capability terms. Identify technical inconsistencies, risks, and bottlenecks.
• Design - Define and explain the components and impact of integrating technology changes. Design for availability, B/R, and D/R for FC, IP, Array, NAS and management infrastructures. Demonstrate design value against access, security, volume, and growth.
• Plan - Demonstrate the ability to take responsibility for coordination of all storage plans and strategies within the constraints of meeting storage requirements, technical coordination, measurement, and review of all progress and plans. Show practical knowledge of storage infrastructure capabilities and components and how to assemble and create a solution. Capabilities include media, replication, transports, and protocols. Components include disks, arrays, virtualization, network (SAN and IP), and backup and replication mechanisms.
• Troubleshooting and Problem Resolution - Understand and apply an ITIL™ best practices approach in every part of this objective. Use advanced troubleshooting techniques and tools to solve storage problems; particularly where the architecture limitations exceed present and future capabilities. Plan and implement proof-of-concept and benchmark activities. Manage integration, data migration and continuity process. Create quality assurance strategy and procedures. Pursue an error free operation through development of qualitative and quantitative measurement criteria.
• ITIL - Know the ITIL™ capacity planning process. Create a capacity plan for all storage related components in the infrastructure domain. Demonstrate knowledge of scalability, throughput, and bandwidth requirements, including impacts. Justify how a capacity plan aligns with application life cycle. Apply the planning process in an integrated solution approach (NAS, FC, IP, SAN, Array, B/R, D/R). Plan for storage and server consolidation.

S10-300  02/10

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