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

Introduction

Welcome
What you should know

The Storage Networking Foundations Exam

About the exam

Storage and Business

Storage and business and career path
Fitting storage building blocks together
Storage today and how we got here
Problems SANs solve

Consolidation and Service Level Agreements

Consolidation and DAS
Consolidation - How to get started
Implementing backup and recovery SLA
Tape, backup, and archival
Cloud storage
Object IO
Capacity planning

Storage Performance

Storage performance
Performance and drives
Performance engineering tools

RAID and Storage Networks

RAID big picture
RAID types
Newer RAID
RAID and service levels

Block IO and File IO

Block IO and File IO
Block IO over Ethernet

Physical View and Putting a SAN Together

Fibre Channel physical view
Remote datacenter BC DR
FC zoning
SAN failover
SAN troubleshooting

Logical View and Connecting Servers

Connecting servers
Storage console operations
Storage console logical operations
Storage console snapshot
Storage console volume copy
Thin provisioning and virtual machines

Spinning Drives and Solid State Devices

Hard drive deep dive
Hard drive interfaces
SSD deep dive
SSD interfaces and PCI NVMe
Value comparisons - HDD and SSD

Innovations and Future Storage

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

Conclusion

Next steps and additional resources