Cisco MDS 9000 Series Switches Overview

Master the art of optimizing storage networks with the Cisco MDS 9000 Series Switches Overview course, perfect for IT professionals looking to enhance SAN environments with advanced security and streamlined management.

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Essential Skills Gained

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Implement Cisco MDS 9000 Series Switches to manage enterprise SAN environments.

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Understand the architecture and key features of the MDS 9000 Series.

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Design scalable and highly available storage networks.

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Analyze key value-add features and management tools for Cisco MDS switches.

Format

  • Instructor-led
  • 1 days with lectures and hands-on labs.

Audience

  • Data center architects
  • Data center engineers
  • IT directors
  • Network architects

Description

The Cisco MDS 9000 Series Switches Overview (DCMDSO) v1.5 course gives you a technical overview of how Cisco Multilayer Director Switch (MDS) 9000 Series, can be used to build highly available and scalable storage networks with advanced security and unified management. The course is for technical decision makers and IT professionals who architect, implement, and manage data center Storage Area Network (SAN) environments. In this course, you’ll learn about key capabilities of the MDS 9000 Series, including platforms, architecture, software, management, and key features that contribute to performance, high availability, flexibility, and operational simplicity of storage environments. This course will help you:

  • Learn how you can use Cisco MDS Series 9000 Multilayer Switches to manage your enterprise SAN environment
  • Understand the common platform architecture and key features of the MDS 9000 Series, which provide a consistent set of provisioning, management, and diagnostic capabilities and lead to flexibility, speed, lower TCO, and more benefits.
The DCMDSO course is part of Cisco Black Belt Academy Aligned Content. It belongs to the stage: Black Belt MDS Presales/Deployment/ Support Stage-1.

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Course Outline

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Define Cisco MDS Platform Overview

  1. Introduction and Advantages of Cisco MDS

  2. Fixed Platforms

  3. Modular Platforms

Describe Cisco MDS Architecture

  1. Store-and-Forward Architecture

  2. High Availability

  3. Redundancy

Explore Cisco MDS Key Features

  1. Virtual Storage Area Networks

  2. Port Channels

  3. Slow Drain Device and Path Analysis Using Congestion Control Mechanisms

  4. Cisco DCNM SAN Insights for SAN Analytics

  5. Zoning

  6. Smart Zoning

  7. Other Differentiating Features

Examine Cisco MDS Management

  1. Cisco Data Center Network Manager

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