| Assessment |
- Determine topology issues relevant to solution-focused design, including fabric, loop, and point-to-point (SAN).
- Determine disaster recovery issues relevant to solution-focused design.
- Determine high availability issues relevant to solution-focused design (e.g., SAN redundancy, SAN failover, load balancing, quality of connection).
- Determine the performance issues relevant to solution-focused design (e.g., random access, sequential access, fan-in/fan-out ratios, etc.)
- Determine LAN-free/server-free issues relevant to solution-focused design (e.g., LAN Free/Server free, HSM backup configurations and strategy, etc.)
- Assess the existing infrastructure prior to designing an FC SAN solution. Consider bandwidth, throughput, resilience, redundancy, compatibility, scalability, protocol (FICON, SCSI, and IP) and extended fabrics.
- Assess existing hardware and software prior to designing a SAN or NAS solution. Consider OS and platforms, storage [tape, disk/RAID], application and management software.
- Assess distance limitations prior to designing a SAN or NAS solution.
- Assess current storage prior to designing a SAN or NAS solution.
- Validate the design of SAN solutions (e.g., given a proof of concept).
- Evaluate and specify hardware capabilities and software functionality to be used in SAN or NAS architectural solutions.
- Perform needs assessment and determine Gap Analysis Solution by leveraging ITIL and ITSM principles.
- Document the impact of I/O bus, HBA and storage directors on system performance leveraging ITIL
- Document risk acceptance criteria leveraging ITIL
- Verify a user’s capacity plan requirements work by sizing a new storage array.
- Assess the existing infrastructure to designing an IP SAN solution. Consider bandwidth, throughput, resilience, redundancy, compatibility, scalability, protocol, (FICON, SCSI, and IP) and extended fabrics.
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| Planning |
- Plan for storage and server consolidation.
- Create Capacity Planning processes and procedure for a SAN solution.
- Build and document operating procedures for implementing storage solutions.
- Build and document a job flow sequence for managing backup strategies.
- Create a checklist to call out the procedures for the data management life cycle (architecture, planning, design, and implementation, from pre-sales to post-implementation).
- Develop principles of working within the data center to facilitate efficient and error free operations.
- Plan architecture solutions for scalability.
- Plan architecture solutions for capacity, including throughput /bandwidth.
- Plan architecture solutions for interoperability.
- Plan architecture solutions for security (e.g., LUN mapping, LUN masking, persistent binding, soft and hard zoning, etc.).
- Plan FC SAN solution to accommodate heterogeneous or homogeneous operating systems.
- Plan for the manageability of the SAN or NAS infrastructure.
- Plan SAN and NAS models (e.g., mesh, star, and hybrid configurations, core/edge, two-tier/three-tier, 2 Gb/1Gb ports, hubs/switches/directors).
- Plan migrations to FC SAN solutions (interconnecting devices, from existing infrastructure to a new design).
- Create a Capacity Planning process and procedures for a NAS solution.
- Plan IP SAN solutions to accommodate heterogeneous or homogeneous operating systems.
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| Design |
- Design high availability strategies.
- Design a storage area network within such constraints as financial, performance, hardware, connectivity, physical building limitations (leveraging ITIL and ITSM principles).
- Design a backup and recovery strategy.
- Design and document disaster recovery solutions.
- Demonstrate knowledge of Storage Management Design (and the design characteristics of a standard e.g., SMI, shared storage model).
- Given a scenario, design logical recovery strategies.
- Design fault tolerant solutions and strategies.
- Design failover solutions.
- Design clustering systems solutions.
- Define the steps to make a volume usable through a SAN.
- Design disk recovery methods.
- Design database to storage layout strategies.
- Design a NAS solution, defining the ipact on local and wide area network topologies.
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| Problem Resolution and Troubleshooting |
- Create QA strategy and procedures (leveraging ITIL)
- Manage an error free operation through measurement criteria that are quantifiable (leveraging ITIL)
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| Official Information |
https://www.snia.org/sites/default/files/SNIA_Architect_Prep_Guide.pdf |
