These modules are designed to support the course objectives. The following modules are included in this course:
Section 1. Introduction to Information Availability: Framework for Information Availability
- Establishing Information Availability
- Business Continuity Planning
- Case study on creating and establishing an Information Availability infrastructure
Section 2. Backup and Recovery: Common concepts, terms, and topologies of a Backup and Recovery environment
- Technology elements and components of Backup and Recovery solutions
- Considerations for developing and deploying a Backup and Recovery solution
- Implementing, and managing a Backup and Recovery environment
- Case study
Section 3. Replication technologies: Review of local replication technologies
- Considerations for designing and managing local replication solutions
- Considerations for restoring or recovering from local replicas Review of remote replication technologies
- Connectivity options for remote replication
- Designing remote replication solutions
- Considerations for disaster recovery using remote replicas
- Three-site remote replication
- SAN-based remote replication
- Continuous Data Protection (CDP) technologies
- Case studies on designing, developing, and deploying local and remote replication solutions
- NAS local and remote replication considerations.
Section 4. Content Addressable Storage (CAS) and Archiving:
- Overview of CAS
- Impact of compliancy on CAS
- CAS design considerations
- Network considerations for CAS design
- Application design considerations for CAS
- Attributes of offline, online and active archive environments
- Considerations when selecting an archive solution
- Strengths and weaknesses of Tape, Optical and Content Addressed archive solutions
- Implementation of CAS in an ILM based archive solution.
Labs:
Case studies and EMC examples of technology and solutions
• The technologies described in the course are reinforced with EMC examples of actual solutions. Realistic case studies enable the participant to design the most appropriate solution for given sets of criteria.