Storage technology training for SNIA EMC certifications - Storage online training for getting job in Storage companies

Hi,

A good friend of mine who is a Storage professional with 8 years of IT experience is doing online training for people who want to get into Storage technology career.

Below you can find the details of the course she does & all the relevant details. If you are serious about building your career in storage this course will be a boost in that direction. This course can also help take up Storage certifications. Do email back to me roger.smithson10@gmail.com if you are interested in taking up this course.

The trainer - she will be allowing you to attend 1 session so you can see yourself the quality of the training & clarify all your questions before you send the payment to be able to attend remaining training sessions. I've known this trainer for a long time & I've attended some of her sessions & I'm impressed by the way she teaches - its like learning from an experienced IT friend. Though dont always push thinking the trainer as a friend but she is very helpful.

Lots of her students from US,UK,Australia,India & many other countries have vouched for the support her trainings have given them to advance in their career or to get job in Storage.

This training is purely online for individuals & once you email me I will share your email id with the trainer so that she can followup with you & give you more info.

I will say if you are seriously thinking of getting into storage this training is a must have. Do email if you are seriously interested in taking up this training.

Regards
Roger

Course details are below - please take time to go through in detail.

Storage Administrator Training Courses:-SNIA s10-101,Netbackup,EMC CLARiiON,Symmetrix DMX,IBM DS4000/5000,Brocade/McData/Cisco SAN Switches.


Trainer : SNIA Certified Professional.,8 years of Industry experience.
Contact : Email : roger.smithson10@gmail.com

Online Training for induviduals
Classroom sessions for Corporates.

NOTE:Fee mentioned here is for individual students,for corporates,the fee will vary.

**AS A SPECIAL DISCOUNT FOR THOSE WHO TAKE ALL THE COURSES AS A PACKAGE,THE FEE WILL BE ONLY Rs.50000/-**

Course 1:
SNIA S10-101 (Duration:30hours,Fees:Rs.15000)

Course coverage Details can be found below:

http://www.snia.org/education/certification/scsp/Exam_Prep_Guide_January_2008_Update06192009.pdf

Course 2:

EMC - SYMMETRIX (Duration:30hours,Fees:Rs.30000)

Storage System Introduction
Data and Information
SAN, DAS and NAS Basic
Symmetrix Inside - Logical view
Legacy Box, DMX 1000, 2000 & 3000 Architecture & Power system.
DMX 800, DMX3 and DMX 4 Architecture & Power system.

* V-MAX Architucture.
FA, DA and Cache (memory Boards).
Why Rule 17?
FEBE Boards
EMC physical disk and symmetrix device (logical volume)
Read Hit/Miss, Write Hit/Miss and Data Structure.
EMC Symmetrix Solution Enabler
Symmetrix/DMX Configuration Manager
Configuration Manager
RAID - (0,1,2,3,4,5,6,S,0+1,1+0)
Creating and Deleting of Hyper Volumes
Mapping and Unmapping of Devices (Allocation and Re-claim)
Managing Meta Devices
Symmetrix DMX Series Director Pairing
Symmetrix Time Finder
o Mirroring
o BCV - Operations, Symcli commands.
Global Sparing
Hot Sparing
Dynamic Sparing
Optimizer theory
EMC Health check, Drive Replacement and Inlines
SRDF in details, SRDF all modes.
Symmetrix TimeFinder Review
SRDF operations

Course 3:

CLARiiON (Duration:30hours,Fees:Rs.15000)

Basic architecture of CLARiiON Disk Array CLARiiON Models
CLARiiON Management Utilities -Navisphere Manager 6
Disk Summary
Faults
Connectivity Status
Storage System Properties
Managing RAID Groups
Creating Raid Groups
Deleting Raid Groups
Creating LUNs with different Raid Types.
Deleting LUN's
Managing Storage Groups
Creating storage groups.
Assigning LUN's to Servers.
Navisphere and NaviCli Documents


EMC Tools :

EMC Solution Enabler (Symcli)
ECC - EMC Control Center
Navisphere
PowerPath

Course 4:

IBM DS4000/5000 Technical Training: (Duration:30hours,Fees:Rs.15000)

Course Details found in the below link:

http://www.www-304.ibm.com/jct03001c/services/learning/ites.wss/in/en?pageType=course_description&includeNotScheduled=y&courseCode=SSB0IN


NOTE: The below SAN Fabric Course (taught along with courses 1 thru 4)

Agenda :
Brocade Switch

Setting up Brocade (b-type)
- Administrative and zoning pages
- Fabric Manager
- Functions of the SAN switches
- Fabric Shortest Path First (FSPF)
- Inter Switch Link Trunking (ISL)
- Host resource access
- Zoning and other switch services

McData Switch

- Setting up McDATA (m-type)
- Functions of the McDATA (m-type)

Cisco Switch

- Cisco MDS9000 family overview
- Initial setup configuration
- Cisco Device Manager and Cisco Fabric Manager
- Virtual Storage Area Network (VSAN)
- ISLs and port channels
- Zoning
- Administration

Course 5:


Netbackup(Veritas/Symantec product) :
(Duration:16 hours,Fees:Rs.15000)
Agenda:
1. Introduction & Netbackup Architecture.
2. Installation of Master / Media / Clients software,
3. Demons and services
4. Backup Hard ware devices (Library and Tapes)
5. Configuration of Storage units / Volume pools
6. Configuration of Policies
7. Backup,Archive and Restore operations
8. Job and Activity Monitoring
9. Netbackup Database Backup and Recovery
10. Netbackup Error Codes and Trouble shooting
11. Important Netbackup commands
12.Health Check & Intializing scheduled backup & Daily job monitoring

NOTE:
Certifications which can be complete after the courses
Storage Technology Foundation(STF) or Information Storage Management (ISM) - EMC Course Code E20-001.
SNIA Storage Foundations S10-101

Email roger.smithson10@gmail.com so that you can get in touch with the trainer

Storage Technology Online Training Videos Web based training

Learning through Videos is the fastest & most effective method after learning from an instructor or a personal trainer. Cost of a personal trainer is high to learn Storage technology hence a team I know very well is developing a website for Storage fundamentals + SAN training using Videos. Learning from Videos that too Web based videos has advantages like
- you learn at your own pace,
- you replay the video & see it number of times to perfect the concept or technology

A separate website is being developed by a team of Storage professionals who will be Sharing some of their industry experiences,
Giving you tips for a Career in Storage technology
But main focus will be to give you a Strong Fundamental knowledge on Storage technology

The topics covered will be around(This is just the initial list I got they promised that it will grow more soon, lot more will be covered)
Storage Basics
SAN(Storage Area Network): SAN components
SAN Hardware
SAN Software
SAN Configuration & Troubleshooting overview
iSCSI (SCSI over IP)
FC (Fibre Channel)
Storage connectivity & interfaces:SCSI,SAS,SATA & more.


There will be huge bonus additional Videos & materials like
- What to expect in Storage job interviews
- Tips to prepare your resume to get more interviews from Storage companies
- Tips for interview preparation for Storage technology job openings
- Tips for prioritizing what to give importance & which topics you need to perfect
- You will receive 300+ interview questions from different Storage company interviews which itself is valued at $100. You get this free when you join for this Video training membership website.

Cost for this web based training access will be $500 (USD) payable through paypal or credit card. Those who are interested please email jobsulike@gmail.com today & confirm your interest. The access to this membership based website will be limited only to few since the website development team wants to work more closely with the members & provide some additional value adds, hence I would recommend you to email today & confirm your interest to join.

You will soon get to see a preview Video from their list of Storage Technology Videos on this blog. You will also see lot more updates about this new website being developed soon on this blog.May be I will post some of the reviews or Videos from members who joined & benefited from this web based training website.

Training on Storage Fundamentals by Professionals working in Storage industries

Training on Storage Fundamentals given in Bangalore by Professionals working in Storage industries.Email jobsulike@gmail.com for details.You can attend a class this saturday 2007 also next weekends.

Practical Hands-on Project oriented training on Storage Testing High Paying Technology segment which has more hundreds of openings in all major companies like IBM,HP,EMC2,Sun Microsystems,SANdisk,Emulex,Qlogic,Symphony,LSI,Brocade,McData,Adaptec,Wipro,Infosys & many more.

Advantages of this Project Oriented Training on Storage Fundamentals & Testing

- 90% Practical with 10% in Lab theory classes
- Industry Level Projects on High demand technologies
- Mentoring by Storage industry experts who have real working experience in DAS,NAS,SAN
- More than 400 Real Interview Questions covered in this training
- Only 9 students taken per batch to give personal attention
- Trained students will get interview tips,resume enhancement support at end of the succesful course completion
- Extensive Mock Interviews to prepare you for the actual interviews
- Resume building support - Yes we will develop your resume & give you maximum advantage
- Extensive classes on Interview Tips from Professionals who sit in interview panels
- Course fee is only 10,000 Indian Rs .
- Classes only on weekends .
- Course duration : 6 weekends ( 2 days each week for 6 weeks on Saturday & Sunday )

Course Syllabus Coverage :
Storage Technology basics
Different storage requirements of the industry (DAS,NAS,SAN)
RAID Concept & RAID Practical handson labs
DAS Labs
Storage Testing - Test plan, Test cases, Test execution, Test Data, Test Results
Storage in Windows
Storage in Linux
Storage Management software brief
Software Testing - SDLC, Test Life cycle , Bug Life Cycle
Defect Management & Testing experiences from real Industry experiences
Testing Processes and requirements of the Real Industry

Please email to jobsulike@gmail.com for the details.

IBM's Storage related training options - Its Huge & Its High Paying , Challenging too

Would You Pay for Personalised Training on Storage Career

Do you need Personalised training on Storage Career. If yes will you do something in return for what you get.

This is the question I want to ask everyone who reads & benefits from this blog. I wanted people to share information & help others but very few came forward & contributed articles,interview questions on this blog.

So now I wanted to get your feedback - Do u want this blog to help you better , to grow with more strong & very specific content to help your career & help your knowledge base ?
If Yes will you either share information (Original articles, Interview Questions from your experiences, Troubleshooting tips etc )
or
Will you pay for it, If you are willing to pay for a personalised training which helps you get a Career Boost in Storage - how much are you willing to pay for it & how exactly do you expect it to be.

Let me know who is willing to share info with community & who just wants to pay. Do not belong to the category who just read,benefit & forget about this blog.

For all those who contributed to this blog I heartily thank your efforts - roger.smithson@gmail.com

EMC Symmetrix enterprise storage array another Great product you should know about

Symmetrix began in 1990 as an ESCON and SCSI connected storage array, but rose to prominence with the introduction of Fibre Channel-based SANs.
* Symmetrix 4200
* Symmetrix 4400 (4 MB cache, RAID1)
* Symmetrix 4800
* Symmetrix 5500-3
* Symmetrix 3.0 (Open Symmetrix, SRDF, FWD SCSI Front End option, RAID-S)
* Symmetrix 4.0 (TimeFinder)
* Symmetrix 4.8 (FC Front end, 3830?)
* Symmetrix 5.0 (333 MHz PPC, e.g. 8730)
* Symmetrix 5.5 (400 MHz PPC, last SCSI back end, e.g. 8830)
* Symmetrix DMX (500 MHz PPC, FC back end, Direct Access to cache from all FE and BE directors)
* Symmetrix DMX-2 (1000 MHz PPC, RAID 5 capable)
* Symmetrix DMX-3 (1.3 GHz PPC, new denser drive packaging)

This is what EMC says about its DMX Series system