Cert Prep: SNCP Foundations (S10-110)

Course details

Earning the SNIA Storage Networking Certified Professional (SNCP) credential demonstrates that you have a solid understanding of the basic components of storage networks, storage protocols, and disaster recovery. In this course, learn about foundational storage administration concepts, and prepare for the SNIA Storage Networking Foundation (S10-110) exam—the test you must pass in order to earn the SNCP credential. Instructor Hubbert Smith discusses storage administration as a career, and goes into the value of certification. He also covers consolidation and service level agreements, storage performance, RAID and storage networks, Block IO and File IO, putting a SAN together, and more.

Learning objectives
Storage administration as a career path
Fitting storage building blocks together
Storage today and how we got here
Consolidation and service level agreements
Implementing backup and recovery SLA
Capacity planning
Spinning drives
Hard drive interfaces
Fibre Channel
Solid state drives

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Welcome
02 - What you should know

1. The Storage Networking Foundations Exam

03 - About the exam

2. Storage and Business

04 - Storage and business and career path
05 - Fitting storage building blocks together
06 - Storage today and how we got here
07 - Problems SANs solve

3. Consolidation and Service Level Agreements

08 - Consolidation and DAS
09 - Consolidation - How to get started
10 - Implementing backup and recovery SLA
11 - Tape, backup, and archival
12 - Cloud storage
13 - Object IO
14 - Capacity planning

4. Storage Performance

15 - Storage performance
16 - Performance and drives
17 - Performance engineering tools

5. RAID and Storage Networks

18 - RAID big picture
19 - RAID types
20 - Newer RAID
21 - RAID and service levels

6. Block IO and File IO

22 - Block IO and File IO
23 - Block IO over Ethernet

7. Physical View and Putting a SAN Together

24 - Fibre Channel physical view
25 - Remote datacenter BC DR
26 - FC zoning
27 - SAN failover
28 - SAN troubleshooting

8. Logical View and Connecting Servers

29 - Connecting servers
30 - Storage console operations
31 - Storage console logical operations
32 - Storage console snapshot
33 - Storage console volume copy
34 - Thin provisioning and virtual machines

9. Spinning Drives and Solid State Devices

35 - Hard drive deep dive
36 - Hard drive interfaces
37 - SSD deep dive
38 - SSD interfaces and PCI NVMe
39 - Value comparisons - HDD and SSD

10. Innovations and Future Storage

40 - Scale-up vs. scale-out
41 - Future of storage industry

Conclusion

42 - Next steps and additional resources