Information Availability Design and Management

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Who Needs to Attend

Individuals who have foundation knowledge of storage technologies and are working in any storage environment, including storage managers and administrators, database and network administrators, and project managers
IT professionals who want to build their careers in the storage industry
Individuals who are seeking EMC Proven professionals Storage Technologist Specialist-level certification

Prerequisites

SAN Management

Follow-On Courses

There are no follow-ons for this course.

Certification Programs and Certificate Tracks

This course is part of the following programs or tracks:

EMC Proven Professional Storage Technologist Certification

Information Availability Design and Management is the second of the two courses in the Storage Technologist track (EMCST) at the specialist level.

The course provides comprehensive coverage on all aspects of planning, building, and managing Information Availability solutions. In addition to providing the required technical exposure to Backup and Recovery, Local and Remote replication, NAS Business Continuity, and Content Addressed Storage and Archiving, the course covers the design and implementation of the appropriate solution based on availability requirements. This course builds on the technology concepts and principles learned in the prerequisite Information Storage and Management and challenges participants to apply their knowledge to real-world scenarios. Lectures and workshop-style case studies provide a thorough exposure to the technology components, design considerations, and best practices on various aspects of Information Availability.

Certification:

Assessments validate that you have learned the knowledge or skills presented. This course includes a practice test and has an associated Storage Technology specialist exam (E20-012).

What You'll Learn

Establish an Information Availability infrastructure
Technology components, considerations for designing, deploying, and managing:
- A Backup and Recovery solution
- Local and remote replication solutions
- A Network Attached Storage (NAS) business continuity solution
- Content Addressable Storage (CAS) and Archiving solutions

Course Outline

1. Introduction to Information Availability

Framework for Information Availability
Establishing Information Availability
Business Continuity Planning
Case study on creating and establishing an Information Availability infrastructure

2. Backup and Recovery

Common concepts, terms, and topologies of a Backup and Recovery environment
Technology elements and components of Backup and Recovery solutions
Considerations for developing and deploying a Backup and Recovery solution
Implementing and managing a Backup and Recovery environment
Case study

3. Replication technologies

Review of local replication technologies
Considerations for designing and managing local replication solutions
Considerations for restoring or recovering from local replicas
Review of remote replication technologies
Connectivity options for remote replication
Designing remote replication solutions
Considerations for disaster recovery using remote replicas
Three-site remote replication
SAN-based remote replication
Continuous Data Protection (CDP) technologies
Case studies on designing, developing, and deploying local and remote replication solutions
NAS local and remote replication considerations

4. Content Addressable Storage (CAS) and Archiving

Overview of CAS
Impact of compliancy on CAS
CAS design considerations
Network considerations for CAS design
Application design considerations for CAS
Attributes of offline, online, and active archive environments
Considerations when selecting an archive solution
Strengths and weaknesses of Tape, Optical, and Content Addressed archive solutions
Implementation of CAS in an ILM-based archive solution

Labs

Case Studies and EMC Examples of Technology and Solutions

The technologies described in the course are reinforced with EMC examples of actual solutions. Realistic case studies enable the participant to design the most appropriate solution for given sets of criteria.