Today's data center and cloud environments have converged infrastructures and management tools, and with the advent of virtualization technologies like VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V, external SAN and NAS storage is becoming a standard. It's no longer possible to get by as an IT professional by knowing only servers, networking, or storage, you need an understanding of all three for your career to thrive.

This course will give you the knowledge you need to understand SAN and NAS storage. You'll learn the theory of the CIFS (SMB), NFS, Fibre Channel, iSCSI, and FCoE protocols, and see how to configure the storage system and connect from the client with hands-on lab demonstrations.

The lessons are vendor agnostic so they're suitable no matter who the manufacturer of your storage system is. I've used NetApp as the storage system in the live demos but the information is relevant to all vendors.

What will you learn in this course?

• Connect to CIFS (SMB) NAS storage from a Windows client
• Perform a basic configuration of SAN and NAS storage on a NetApp storage system
• Understand Fibre Channel over Ethernet FCoE
• Connect to iSCSI storage from a Windows client
• Understand the basics plus more of Storage Area Networks and Network Attached Storage
• Understand the difference between SAN and NAS, Connect to NFS storage from a Linux client
• Understand the intricacies of Fibre Channel SAN