Storage Virtualization


Overview/Description
Target Audience
Expected Duration
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Overview/Description
Virtualization has become more and more prevalent in modern networks as IT staff seek to increase availability, without increasing hardware and bandwidth costs. This course examines what virtualization is and the technologies that can be used to accomplish virtualization. This course also examines different types of virtualization technologies, the SNIA virtualization taxonomy, block-level and file-level virtualization technologies, virtual provisioning, and different types of LUNs. Finally, this course examines EMC Invista and Rainfinity, and how they can be used to implement a virtualization environment. This course helps to prepare the learner for the E20-001 Information Storage and Management Exam.

Target Audience
Storage architects, administrators, or managers; CIOs or project managers; or recent additions to information and storage management teams

Expected Duration (hours)
1.0

Lesson Objectives

Storage Virtualization

  • recognize how memory, networks, servers, and storage can be virtualized
  • identify the challenges of virtualization
  • recognize how block-level storage virtualization and file-level virtualization can be implemented
  • differentiate between situations appropriate for traditional and virtual provisioning
  • identify the benefits of virtual provisioning
  • recognize how virtualization works
  • identify the features of EMC Invista
  • identify the features of EMC Rainfinity
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