Storage Learning Path
Tagline: Performance, Protection, and Protocols. Focus: Pure Storage, NetApp, Dell PowerStore, HPE Alletra.
Level 100: Storage Fundamentals
- Block vs. File vs. Object: When to use SAN, NAS, or S3.
- The Media: HDD vs. SSD vs. NVMe. Understanding IOPS and Latency.
- Protocols: iSCSI, Fibre Channel (FC), NFS, and SMB/CIFS.
Level 200: Enterprise Implementation
- NetApp ONTAP: Managing Aggregates, Volumes, and SVMs.
- Pure Storage: Understanding FlashArray architecture and Evergreen storage concepts.
- Data Efficiency: Deduplication and Compression—how to store 100TB of data on 20TB of disk.
- Hands-On Lab: Zone a Fibre Channel switch and present a LUN to a VMware host.
Level 300: Protection & Disaster Recovery
- Snapshots & Cloning: Instant copies for backup and DevOps testing without consuming space.
- Replication: Async vs. Sync replication for Disaster Recovery (DR).
- Active-Active Storage: Designing metro-clusters for zero RPO/RTO.
Target Certifications: NetApp NCDA, Pure Storage FlashArray Architect, Dell EMC Information Storage Associate (DECA).