Cisco
Advanced Storage Implementation and Troubleshooting
(CASI) - 3-day Hands-on Course
Course Designed
and Developed for Cisco by CCI
Course Description
In CASI, you learn
how the various Cisco MDS 9000 enterprise license
features work such as InterVSAN routing, QoS, FCC,
LUN Zoning, SPAN/RSPAN, port security, and
interoperability. You will learn best practices in
deploying these features and methodologies for
tuning, management, troubleshooting, and security.
This course requires students to have taken MDSCT
and builds upon the foundation concepts taught in
that course.
You will learn how
to take full advantage of Cisco’s unique, state of
the industry capabilities, not implemented in other
vendor’s products such as traffic engineering using
QoS, FCC, and virtual output queues. You will gain
the skills needed to troubleshoot SAN networks that
are scalable, secure, interoperable, well managed,
high performance, and with high availability.
You will gain
valuable “hands-on” experience using a state of the
art lab facility. You will practice monitoring and
analyzing SAN performance; implementing distributed
authentication and other security features. You will
also gain in-depth troubleshooting practice
regarding many common SAN connectivity issues.
Course Objectives
In this course you will learn how to:
- Implement MDS
9000 enterprise unique license features (InterVSAN
routing, QoS, FC congestion control, LUN Zoning,
SPAN/RSPAN, traffic engineering using QoS, FCC and
VOQ)
- Implement
Cisco’s best practices for deploying advanced SAN
features (Port security, interoperability in
multivendor environments)
- Implement a SAN
with multiple virtual fabrics using the full range
of MDS 9000 features and capabilities for SAN high
availability, scalability, and performance.
- Configure and
use fabric management, performance management, and
security services on the Cisco MDS platform, for
effective SAN management, tuning, and security.
- Diagnose and
correct hardware and software configuration and
inoperability issues, with minimal disruption to
the SAN environment.
Intended Audience
This technical
training course is designed primarily for Cisco
support engineers and channel partner support
engineers, and customer system administrators
involved in the operation and maintenance of SANs
using MDS 9000 products.
Prerequisites
Student prerequisites are as follows:
- Cisco MDS
Configuration and Troubleshooting (MDSCT), or
equivalent knowledge and skills with basic MDS
configuration and troubleshooting
- Cisco ESAN
ACCELERATE Curriculum Unit 1 and 2 or equivalent
knowledge of SAN technology fundamentals and Fibre
Channel protocol fundamentals
Course Outline
CASI teaches the details of “how features work”
using the advanced enterprise license features of
the MDS 9000 series products and builds upon the “what
are the features and concepts behind SAN and Fibre
Channel for the MDS 9000” taught in MDSCT. CASI
reinforces this knowledge with in-depth labs, best
practices, and topics not covered in MDSCT.
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