Course Description
This unique course provides a comprehensive mastery of the various storage infrastructure components & options in a modern data center environment. Participants will learn to apply storage-related technologies in a fast-changing & complex IT environment due to adopting new technologies such as Cloud, edge computing, Big Data, IoT, AI/ML, & 5G. This course covers intelligent storage systems, networking technologies, business continuity solutions, information security, & storage infrastructure management. The course content takes an open approach to explain all the concepts & technologies, which are further illustrated & reinforced with Dell product examples. The training prepared the learner for the Dell Technologies Proven Professional Information & Storage & Management Version 5.0 associate-level certification exam (DEA-1TT5) to be available in February 2022.
Prerequisites
- A basic understanding of computer architecture, operating systems, & networking
- Participants with experience in specific segments of storage infrastructure would also be able to assimilate the course material
Audience Profile
- Experienced IT professionals directly managing storage infrastructure
- IT professionals seeking to better understand the role of storage infrastructure in the modern data center
- Students & professionals considering a career in the storage industry
- Organization-wide IT teams responsible for planning, designing, deploying, managing, or leveraging storage infrastructure
- Individuals who are seeking Dell Technologies Proven Professional Information Storage & Management associate-level certification
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, participants should be able to:
- Explain business drivers of digital transformation.
- Explain modern data center infrastructure & its elements.
- Explain intelligent storage systems & their types.
- Evaluate various storage networking technologies & approaches.
- Explain software-defined storage & networking.
- Articulate business continuity & data protection solutions (replication, backup, migration, & archiving).
- Explain storage infrastructure security & management processes.
Content Outline
- Data & information
- Key characteristics of a data center
- Business drivers of digital transformation
- Cloud Computing
- Big Data & AI/ML
- IoT, Edge Computing, & 5G
- Types of computing systems, hypervisors, VM, & containers
- Applications, types of storage & network
- Software-defined Data Center
- Modern Data Center Architecture, CI/HCI
- Types & components of intelligent storage systems
- RAID
- Storage provisioning & tiering
- Block storage system components
- Scale-up & Scale-out NAS
- Features & components of Object storage system
- Unified storage system
- FC SAN Architecture
- FC topologies & zoning
- SAN virtualization
- iSCSI components, protocol stack, & VLAN
- FCIP connectivity, protocol stack, & FCoE
- NVMe-oF
- Key attributes of SDS, SDS architecture
- SDN architecture, benefits
- Business continuity overview
- Fault-tolerant IT infrastructure
- Data replication
- Backup & recovery
- Data deduplication
- Data archiving & migration
- Introduction to information security
- Storage security domains & threats
- Key security controls
- Introduction to storage management
- Operations management
Certification
Associate – Information Storage & Management Version 5.0 (DCA-ISM)
FAQs
A: Participants will learn to apply storage-related technologies in a fast-changing & complex IT environment due to adopting new technologies such as Cloud, edge computing, Big Data, IoT, AI/ML, & 5G.
A: To attend the training session, you should have an active desktop or Laptop with the required specification and a good internet connection to access the labs.
A: We recommend you attend the live session to practice & clarify the doubts instantly & get more value from your investment. However, if, due to some contingency, you have to skip the class, Radiant Techlearning will help you with the recorded session of that particular day. However, those recorded sessions are not meant only for personal consumption & NOT for distribution or commercial use.
A: Radiant Techlearning has a data center containing the Virtual Training environment for participants’ hand-on-practice.
Participants can easily access these labs over Cloud with the assistance of a remote desktop connection.
Radiant virtual labs allow you to learn from anywhere in the world & in any time zone.
A: The learners will be enthralled as we engage them the real-world & industry Oriented projects during the training program. These projects will improve your skills & knowledge & you will gain a better experience. These real-time projects will help you a lot in your future tasks & assignments.