Course Information
Course Name
ISMV5: Information Storage and Management V5
Exam code
D-ISM-FN-23
Duration
5 Days
Certification
Dell Information Storage and Management Foundations 2023Associate – Information Storage and Management Version (DCA-ISM)
Overview
This unique course provides a comprehensive mastery of the various storage infrastructure components and options in a modern data center environment. Participants will learn to apply storage-related technologies in a fast-changing and complex IT environment due to the adoption of new technologies such as cloud, edge computing, Big Data, IoT, AI/ML, and 5G. This course covers intelligent storage systems, networking technologies, business continuity solutions, information security, and storage infrastructure management. The course content takes an open approach to describe all the concepts and technologies, which are further illustrated and reinforced with Dell product examples.
The training prepares the learner for the Dell Technologies Proven Professional Information and Storage and Management Version 5.0 associate-level certification exam (DEA-1TT5).
Audience Profile
This course is intended for:
Experienced IT professionals directly managing storage infrastructure
IT professionals seeking to better understand the role of storage infrastructure in the modern data center
Students and professionals considering a career in the storage industry
Organization-wide IT teams responsible for planning, designing, deploying, managing, or leveraging storage infrastructure
Prerequisites
To successfully complete this course, a student should have:
A basic understanding of computer architecture, operating systems, and networking
Participants with experience in specific segments of storage infrastructure would also be able to assimilate the course material
At Course Completion
Upon successful completion of this course, participants should be able to:
Describe business drivers of digital transformation.
Describe modern data center infrastructure and its elements.
Explain intelligent storage systems and their types.
Evaluate various storage networking technologies and approaches.
Describe software-defined storage and networking.
Articulate business continuity and data protection solutions (replication, backup, migration, and archiving).
Describe storage infrastructure security and management processes.
Course Outline
Module 1: Introduction to Information Storage
Digital data and its types
Key characteristics of data center
Business drivers of digital transformation
Module 2: Business Drivers of Digital Transformation
Cloud Computing
Big Data and AI/ML
IoT, Edge Computing, and 5G
Module 3: Modern Data Center Environment
Types of compute system, hypervisor, VM, and containers
Applications, types of storage and network
Software-defined Data Center
Modern Data Center Architecture, CI/HCI
Module 4: Intelligent Storage Systems
Types and components of intelligent storage systems
RAID
Storage provisioning and tiering
Module 5: Block, File, and Object-based Storage System
Block storage system components
Scale-up and Scale-out NAS
Features and components of Object storage system
Unified storage system
Module 6: Storage Area Network – FC SAN
FC SAN Architecture
FC topologies and zoning
SAN virtualization
Module 7: IP SAN, FCoE, and NVMe-oF
iSCSI components, protocol stack, and VLAN
FCIP connectivity, protocol stack, and FCoE
NVMe-oF
Module 8: Software Defined Storage and Network
Key attributes of SDS, SDS architecture
SDN architecture, benefits
Module 9: Business Continuity
Business continuity overview
Fault tolerant IT infrastructure
Module 10: Data Protection
Data replication
Backup and recovery
Data deduplication
Data archiving and migration
Module 11: Storage Infrastructure Security
Introduction to information security
Storage security domains and threats
Key security controls
Module 12: Storage Infrastructure Security
Introduction to Information Security
Storage security domains and threats
Key security controls
Module 13: Storage Infrastructure Management
Introduction to storage infrastructure management
Operations management
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