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SNIA Storage Network Foundations

One of the IT Industry’s most In-Demand Technical Certifications is the SNIA Storage Professional Certification.

The SNIA Storage Network Foundations (S10-101) exam will certify that the successful candidate has knowledge of general storage networking concepts, components and basic ability to work on a storage network implementation team.


Prerequisite Exam : None

Exam Code : S10-101

Passing Score : 70%

Number of Exam Items : 73

Requirements (Experience and Training)


Course Details

1. Basic Storage Networking Technology Components and Concepts

  • Describe Networking Concepts vs. Storage Concepts
    • Define protocols and infrastructures commonly used for DAS, SAN, NAS architectures
    • Differentiate session vs connection vs link
    • Differentiate names vs addresses
    • Differentiate payload integrity and error recovery approaches
    • Define full duplex vs half duplex
  • Review Networking Concepts
    • Define the difference between the function of a router vs switch
    • Describe the technical advantages of SAN over DAS (e.g., consolidation, scalability, reliability, serviceability)
    • Describe flow control (credit-based vs retrospective)
    • Define bit rate vs bandwidth vs throughput
    • Describe the functional differences of infrastructure components (e.g. storage router,Bridge, gateway, director, switch)
    • Define data structures (e.g., message, segment, packet, frame)
    • Define segmentation and fragmentation
  • Define the differences in disk Technologies
    • Define fragmentation/defragmentation (symptoms, sequential/random, value)
    • Determine the differences between ATA and SCSI upper layer protocols
    • Identify the differences among ATA/SATA, SCSI, iSCSI, FC, Infiniband, SAS
    • Define protocols and infrastructures commonly used
    • Identify industry-based connectors
    • Identify symbology of industry-standard connectors
    • Describe the use of printers and scanners as Storage devices
    • Describe half duplex and full duplex transport protocols
  • Describe features of Disk Controllers (cache, protection)
  • Compare and contrast the electrical and mechanical differences in entry-level, mid-range and enterprise disk drives
  • Compare and contrast how the disk technologies of Fibre Channel, ATA, SATA, SCSI, and SAS operate
    • Describe differences between serial and parallel approaches (e.g. connectivity, distances, and configurations)
    • Define serial approaches (SATA, SAS, FC, Ethernet)
  • Define RAID technology (e.g., levels)
    • Describe technical characteristics of host-based RAID vs non-host based RAID
    • Describe RAID levels commonly used for data protection and trade-offs relative to performance (e.g., common RAID levels)
  • Describe SCSI technology
    • Define the structure of SCSI standards
    • Describe SCSI-3 architecture model
    • Identify SCSI I_T_L_Q Nexus addressing concepts
    • Define SCSI command protocol
    • Describe QUEUEing concepts
  • Explain iSCSI
    • Define iSCSI in its relation to the protocol stack
    • Compare and contrast iSCSI and NAS (i.e., block level vs file level)
    • Identify concepts of gateways to existing SAN infrastructures
    • Define Ethernet oversubscription
    • Define FCIP and long-distance fabric links
  • Describe HBA/NIC technology
    • Explain partial toe, full toe, non-toe for iSCSI
    • Differentiate between using non-dedicated non-TOE iSCSI initiator vs. a non-dedicated full-TOE initiator
    • Describe the impact of single-ported and multi-ported HBAs on performance and availability
    • Describe the impact of software/firmware/drivers on HBA performance/interoperability/availability
  • Describe Fibre Channel (FC) SAN
    • Define characteristics of Fibre Channel that make it appropriate for SAN implementation (e.g., distances, topologies, media types, fabric, services)
    • Define the distance and speeds available in FC SAN (e.g., distance, 1/2/4/10 Gb speed)
    • Describe topologies and the connectivity implied (e.g., point-to-point, arbitrated loop, switched fabric)
    • Describe FC protocol layers
    • Describe FC classes of service
    • Describe FC addressing
    • Define the function of Fabric services in Fibre Channel (e.g., name service, directory, security, zoning, time)
    • Describe Fabric enabled technologies (e.g authentication, file sharing, replication, extention, FAIS, security)
    • Identify fabric extension technologies (e.g., FCIP, iFCP, WAN, CWDM, DWDM)
  • Describe Array Technology/Virtualization
    • Define array as a collection of disks with controller(s)
    • Define Storage Virtualization (e.g., abstraction, transparency, taxonomy)
    • Identify technical advantages and disadvantages of Virtualization (both application and physical levels)
    • Define Storage Virtualization Taxonomy elements (i.e., Block, Disk, Tape, File System, File/Record)
    • Describe LUN Mapping (UNIX vs Linux vs MS Windows)
  • Define SAS Technology
    • Define common SAS link speeds
    • Describe SAS narrow vs wide ports
    • List the SAS protocols (SMP, SSP, STP)
    • Define a SAS expander
    • Describe SAS support for SATA devices (e.g., connectors, STP)
  • Define SATA technology
    • Define a SATA port multiplier
    • Define SATA link speeds and distances
  • Describe NAS concepts (e.g., filing, components, O/S)
    • Identify technical advantages and disadvantages of NAS technology
    • Define NAS OS characteristics
    • Define NAS Gateway or NAS Head approaches
    • Identify NAS backup and recovery risks
  • Describe the SNIA Shared Storage Model
    • Identify the layers and components of each layer
    • Describe block aggregation

  • Identify HBA configuration parameters
  • Define troubleshooting methodologies and tools
    • Isolate faults and conditions (e.g., volumes of disks not visible, multipathing not functional, disk corruption)
  • Identify the distance limitations between long-wave and short-wave Fibre
  • Create/modify zone sets
    • Describe best practices for zoning
  • Identify the possible zoning conflicts that could cause fabric segmentation
  • Identify tradeoffs in costs, scalability, and redundancy
    • Identify implications and decision points
  • Create storage layouts using partitioning, protected data, security as criteria
    • Identify the use of partitioning, protected data, security
  • Define and compare uses of connectivity protocols

  • Describe storage management components
    • Define capacity, configuration, LDM, Storage Network Managers, Device Managers
    • Define Reporting, Analysis, Monitoring, SRM, Error Statistic Analysis
  • Determine port assignments
  • Define and compare Storage Device Management to Storage Network Management
    • Discriminate between the components, characteristics and functions
  • Describe Configuration Management Elements
    • Define Host (HBA, Device, File System), Fabric (zones, zone sets, ISLs, LSAN/VSAN) IP Storage (Network, LSAN/VLAN), Storage (Disk, Array, Tape, Other)
    • Open Systems Storage Management (Path Managers, HBA, File System, Cache, LUNs, Zoning, Masking/Mapping)
    • Define Virtual HBA (e.g., iSCSI, VN_PORT)
    • Define Virtual OS technology concepts (e.g., virtualized host)
  • Describe requirements or modifications needed to implement SMI-S based storage management
    • Define the "client" and the "provider" in the SMI-S process model
  • Apply Data Management Concepts
    • Define Data Management Concepts (e.g. Backup Recovery, Information Life Cycle, tiered data usage model)
    • Compare backup techniques (e.g., Network, LAN-free, Snapshot, Application Server-free, Server-free, NDMP, backup to disk, replication, CDP)
    • Differentiate among backup methodologies as they relate to Scalability, Manageability, Performance and common pitfalls (e.g., shoe shining, time consistent databases)
    • Identify how policy-based management can be a technical advantage
    • Describe the use of replication technology to migrate data for specific application changes
    • Identify risks associated with Virtualization techniques (e.g., CoW Snapshot dependence on the source consistency)
  • Describe Change Management Process (ITIL) (Applied Fibre Channel Protocol)
  • Identify common blocking problems to fabric merges (e.g., duplicate domains, zone conflicts, incompatible switch setting)
  • Identify ISL technical advantages and disadvantages over-subscription
  • Identify the distance limitations between long-wave and shortwave Fibre

  • Define Backup and Recovery Technologies (e.g., tape, tape components, D2D, D2D2Tape, Optical, 3PC)
  • Describe the differences between virtual tape libraries (VTL) and disk to disk (D2D)
  • Compare backup approaches (i.e., differential vs. incremental, SNAPshot, Backup vs Disaster Recovery)
    • Describe performance and compression/compaction of the different approaches
    • Identify steps to restore data from backup
    • Describe a restore from cumulative differential, perpetual differential and full back-up
  • Identify methods in using high availability and disaster recovery in a SAN infrastructure
  • Identify the role of infrastructure resolution in backup recovery and disaster
  • Describe the different back-up and restore configurations
    • Describe the technical advantages and disadvantages of each configuration (i.e., performance)
    • Identify external requirements that are uniquely satisfied by serverless backup or third-party copy
  • Analyze potential backup problems (e.g., open file, out of space, virus scanner)
  • Identify steps to track error logs within the operating system for backup and recovery messages
    • Locate error messages, etc.
  • Determine components that must be in place to do a back-up and operational recovery of a database
  • Define Data Security
    • Authentication
    • Key Management
    • Encryption
    • Data Destruction
  • Describe the purpose of securing fabric

  • Differentiate SAS/SATA implementation parameters
    • Identify the configuration characteristics of SAS/SATA
    • Identify compatibility characteristics of SAS/SATA
    • Identify the performance (capacity, speed, etc.) characteristics of SAS/SATA
  • Define the differences between PCI-X and PCI-e
  • Identify the RAID levels and implementation (e.g., hardware, software, host-based)
    • Describe technical benefits and limitations of the different RAID levels
  • Differentiate Fibre Channel (FC) implementation parameters
    • Identify industry-known port names
  • Using Switch Technology
    • Identify Core/Edge, Cascaded and Mesh designs
    • Identify the causes of a zone merge failure
    • Define hard zones, soft zones, overlapping zones, port zoning, ww name zoning
    • Identify the subscription rate for a sample fabric (e.g., ISL oversubscription)
    • Identify concepts of fan-in and fan-out ratios
    • Define the dual independent fabric concepts and technical benefits (e.g., process for keeping them independent)
    • Define multipathing (e.g., NIC teaming vs. MPxIO/MPIO)
  • Using HBA technology
  • Implementing Virtualization
    • Describe the technical advantage of LUN masking over zoning
    • Describe the technical advantages of using both LUN masking & zoning concurrently
    • Describe how VSAN/LSAN is implemented
  • Recognize the concept of virtualized host technology
  • Implementing NAS
    • Share, use, mount resources
    • Differentiate between NFS and CIFS (i.e., stateful/stateless)
    • NDMP
  • Describe requirements or modifications needed to implement SMI-S based storage management

  • Assess a Customer's Storage Network
  • Plan and Design a Storage Network

  • Define Continuous Data Protection
    • Define Consolidation and Capacity Utilization
    • Define technical administrative benefits
    • Define clustering and Failover
    • Define Data Protection (RAID)
    • Define high availability (host, fabric, and storage)
  • Identify or modify business case for implementation of Continuity Management
    • Define levels of Disaster Recovery
    • Define tiered storage
    • Define compliance
    • Define security (e.g. encrypt, authenticate)
  • Describe archiving/nearline
    • Define Content Addressable Storage (CAS) (e.g., hand offs)


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