General SAN Certification

Grynder

I am setting up a SAN for use with Hyper-V and I am using openfiler. The world of SAN is new to me and I am learning just enough to get things up and running. Is there a generic SAN certification that would be a good introduction to LUN's, iSCSI, targets etc.
Or perhaps a book suggestion that introduces and explains SAN related concepts.

Thanks

Bl8ckr0uter

Grynder wrote: »

I am setting up a SAN for use with Hyper-V and I am using openfiler. The world of SAN is new to me and I am learning just enough to get things up and running. Is there a generic SAN certification that would be a good introduction to LUN's, iSCSI, targets etc.
Or perhaps a book suggestion that introduces and explains SAN related concepts.

Thanks

SCSP maybe? SNIA - Certification

There are a couple of books I have on order but I'm sure any of these would do you good
Amazon.com: storage area network


Also look in this forum and see if anything strikes your fancy
http://www.techexams.net/forums/storage-certifications/45728-idiots-guide-storage.html

UnixGuy

If you find any official material for SNIA SCP , please let me know ! I'm looking too

RobertKaucher

Grynder wrote: »

I am setting up a SAN for use with Hyper-V and I am using openfiler. The world of SAN is new to me and I am learning just enough to get things up and running. Is there a generic SAN certification that would be a good introduction to LUN's, iSCSI, targets etc.
Or perhaps a book suggestion that introduces and explains SAN related concepts.

Thanks

Grynder,

How would you feel about writing up what you learn for a tutorial to post in the virtualization forum? I am currently revising my notes from the SQL Server forum for setting up iSCSI for use in creating a two node cluster using Hyper-V and OpenFiler. I think these two topics would kind of go hand in glove...

Grynder

Thanks everybody. I usually get some Amazon gift certificates for Christmas and I'll pick one of the recommended books.
The SNIA has some interesting tutorials up SNIA - 2009 Fall Tutorials

Robert, I am trying to knock out 652 right now. But I will try to put something together about SAN as I am learning about it.
Where are your SQLServer cluster notes?

RobertKaucher

http://www.techexams.net/forums/sql-server-2000-2005-exams/44551-creating-clustered-sql-server-test-lab.html

Make sure you check out bertieb's link as that seems to be more accurate, which is why I am rewriting mine. I intend on putting some lab suggestions as well as screeen shots into the new version.

darkerosxx

UnixGuy wrote: »

If you find any official material for SNIA SCP , please let me know ! I'm looking too

The tutorials here have a ton of good information: SNIA - 2009 Fall Tutorials

Hyper-Me

Hyper-V failover clustering really isnt too bad, especially with all the wizards MS has built in to check that everything in the cluster is setup properly.

Its even easier in R2 since you can have on LUN to hold all VMs instead of needing individual LUNs.

UnixGuy

darkerosxx wrote: »

The tutorials here have a ton of good information: SNIA - 2009 Fall Tutorials

Thank you !

but are they enough to pass the exam ?