EMC ISM v2: RAID and Intelligent Storage Systems

Overview/Description
This course focuses on RAID and its use to improve performance and protection. It details various RAID implementations, techniques, and levels commonly used. This course also describes the impact of RAID on performance and equips you to select the best RAID levels for your organization. It also covers the key components of an intelligent storage system. It details the function of each component, including cache management and protection techniques. The course also focuses on the two storage provisioning methods. Finally, it describes the two types of intelligent storage systems. This course is part of a series that cover the objectives for EMC Proven Professional certification exam E10-001 Information Storage and Management Exam Version 2.

Target Audience
Experienced IT professionals who wish to be or currently are responsible for information storage or for planning, designing, deploying, managing, or leveraging information infrastructure

Expected Duration (hours)
1.5

Lesson Objectives

EMC ISM v2: RAID and Intelligent Storage Systems

recognize three key techniques used for RAID and describe RAID implementation

distinguish between commonly used RAID levels

describe the RAID penalty

recommend a RAID level, given a scenario

recognize common cache management strategies

recognize the role played by each key component of an intelligent storage system

describe two storage provisioning methods

describe two types of intelligent storage systems

identify characteristics of two EMC storage offerings