This course gives an overview of the design and concepts of storage technology as well as
covering vendor-specific features and protocols. The storage area network (SAN)
infrastructure facilitates storage consolidation, data sharing, server clustering, LAN-free and
server-less backup across heterogeneous host server platforms. This course focuses on the
planning and implementation considerations associated with establishing that SAN
infrastructure. Functions provided by SAN fabric components, such as Fibre Channel host
bus adapters (HBAs), Fibre Channel switches and directors, and SCSI to Fibre Channel
protocol converters are discussed, and the interdependencies of these components are
examined. Mechanisms to implement resource access control for data access integrity
among heterogeneous hosts in a storage networking environment are also examined.