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We searched for a year to find the right SAN monitoring solution ultimately offered by Finisar's NetWisdom Enterprise Solutions. Finisar was the only vendor to provide a complete end-to-end SAN monitoring solution that fit our programâ€™s needs.

Dr. Abdollah Abtahi, Systems Architect

ML280 iSCSI Architecture and Instrumentation - Click here for detail description

ML280 is an introduction to the technical fundamentals of the iSCSI architecture. It is intended for anyone requiring an introduction to iSCSI architecture including: Design Engineers, Field Application Engineers, Test Engineers and Technical Marketing professionals.

Course Objective
Students develop a working knowledge of the latest iSCSI architecture and behavior through lecture and protocol analysis exercises.

Prerequisites Previous experience with storage or IP networking is helpful, but not required.

Course Format
This course is a combination of lecture and protocol analysis experiments. Protocol analysis is interspersed throughout the 3-day course to reinforce the concepts discussed in each lecture portion of the class.

Course Outline

Basic Elements of iSCSI
iSCSI Architecture and the Network
iSCSI Communication: Protocol Data Units
Naming, Addressing and Discovery
Configuring iSCSI Targets: The Login Process
Mapping SCSI into iSCSI
iSCSI Error Detection and Recovery

Analyzer Experience
Interspersed with the lecture sections, student's analyze iSCSI traces using the latest Finisar XgigÂ® Trace Viewer and Expert software.