Storage System Architecture


Overview/Description
Target Audience
Prerequisites
Expected Duration
Lesson Objectives
Course Number



Overview/Description
To recognize the role of the key physical and logical components in the architecture of a storage environment and differentiate between the benefits and advantages of the IDE/ATA, SCSI, and Fibre Channel storage interfaces

Target Audience
The target audience for this path are IT professionals with little or no knowledge of storage concepts but who need to support storage products now or in the future and make storage related decisions

Prerequisites
None

Expected Duration (hours)
1.2

Lesson Objectives

Storage System Architecture

  • recognize how data typically flows within the host environment of a storage system.
  • select the most appropriate communication protocol to connect a host to its internal storage, in a given scenario.
  • recognize the key physical and logical components that connect hosts to external storage.
  • distinguish between the physical and logical components of storage system environments and between the benefits and advantages of the IDE/ATA, SCSI, and Fibre Channel storage interfaces.
  • Course Number:
    240039_eng