This course provides students with the knowledge and skills needed to successfully design and implement Storage Area Networks (SANs) utilizing Brocade products, including 8 and 16 Gbps Directors and switches. Content includes design elements, SAN infrastructure, SAN software, data center design concepts, distance and extension, as well as integration and migration. Lab exercises cover a range of design topics.

Course Contents
• Define key SAN design terms, processes and considerations.
• Identify the available hardware and software building blocks when designing a SAN.
• Data Center Fabric Features: Adaptive Networking, Advanced Performance Monitoring, Traffic Isolation Zones
• Create a SAN design to meet customer performance, availability, and scalability requirements.
• Create a SAN design to meet customer performance, availability, and scalability requirements.
• Explain the advantages of, and how best to integrate 16 Gbps technology in an existing SAN.
• Determine how to validate the implementation of a SAN design.
• Select methodologies to optimize and tune a deployed SAN architecture.
• Define SAN security features.
• Describe the various documentation components and deliverables for a SAN design project.

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Target Group
This course is for SAN engineers, professional services personnel, pre-sales systems engineers, or anyone else needing detailed foundational information to design and implement Data Center Fabrics and integrate the DCX Backbones and 8 Gbit/sec products into existing SANs.

Knowledge Prerequisites
• AFS 148, Introduction to the Brocade 48000 Director WBT
• DCX 100, Introduction to the DCX Data Center Backbone WBT
• Introduction to M-Series Directors WBT, or equivalent M-Series Director knowledge
• Introduction to M-Series Switches WBT, or equivalent M-Series switch knowledge