Cert Prep: SNCP Foundations (S10-110)

Learn about foundational storage administration concepts, and prepare for the SNIA Storage Networking Foundation (S10-110) exam.

Introduction

• Welcome
• What you should know

1. The Storage Networking Foundations Exam

• About the exam

2. Storage and Business

• Storage and business and career path
• Fitting storage building blocks together
• Storage today and how we got here
• Problems SANs solve

3. Consolidation and Service Level Agreements

• Consolidation and DAS
• Consolidation: How to get started
• Implementing backup and recovery SLA
• Tape, backup, and archival
• Cloud storage
• Object IO
• Capacity planning

4. Storage Performance

• Storage performance
• Performance and drives
• Performance engineering tools

5. RAID and Storage Networks

• RAID big picture
• RAID types
• Newer RAID
• RAID and service levels

6. Block IO and File IO

• Block IO and File IO
• Block IO over Ethernet

7. Physical View and Putting a SAN Together

• Fibre Channel physical view
• Remote datacenter BC/DR
• FC zoning
• SAN failover
• SAN troubleshooting

8. Logical View and Connecting Servers

• Connecting servers
• Storage console operations
• Storage console logical operations
• Storage console snapshot
• Storage console volume copy
• Thin provisioning and virtual machines

9. Spinning Drives and Solid State Devices

• Hard drive deep dive
• Hard drive interfaces
• SSD deep dive
• SSD interfaces and PCI NVMe
• Value comparisons: HDD and SSD

10. Innovations and Future Storage

• Scale-up vs. scale-out
• Future of storage industry

Conclusion

• Next steps and additional resources