After doing a survey with people across industry, I managed to create a flow and sequence to learn different technologies in DataCenter. Now I decided NOT to re-discover or design a wheel but to re-use it wherever its applicable. However, it will be required to correlate them with real world scenarios, for which I will write articles. Below will give you an overview of our discussion topics.
To start with, we will learn the Basics about a hardware, this will not cover in-depth of Digital Electronics, but will touch base it if required during the course . To go further, we will learn about Server Hardware, which includes the server components and a special session about Blades. There will be a separate session about Managing Blade Servers, hence will just give an overview within the first chapter. Moving forward, we will learn about DataCenter Universe, which will include Racks, Cables, Power/Cooling and PDUs. I will emphasis on important aspects, this will not cover the designing or sizing part in initial phase. While learning about Servers, we will refresh some basics of Operating system which are important from learning further technologies like file system, Networking etc. Later, we will start learning about Storage Foundations, I will try to cover most of it as mentioned in SNIA foundation curriculum.
When it comes to storage there are three dimensions which we need to learn: Storage Fabric or SAN, Storage Array and Host File system. We will cover all in our modules. For Storage Fabric, mostly I will cover up Brocade, less from Cisco. Storage Arrays have multiple vendors like HP, EMC, NetApp, Hitachi etc; obviously I wont be able to cover up all, but I will try to involve experts for which ever technology I am not able to cover.
Finally, we will deep dive into Virtualization. We will learn about VMware virtualization products. Now there are already few videos or articles about the technology or how to do it, but I will show the best practices, designing concepts, implementation risk along with some self made tools, which are actually required.
What’s there for ME?
What I feel, there is something for everyone. People who want to learn new things, or enhance existing knowledge, or take a step up in their respective domain. Anyone from Testing/Development, or Support Helpdesk, it can be even useful for IT Technical Managers or even individual contributors like Solution Architects. I have tried to touch-base real world scenarios and in corporate their issues or concerns in single place.
Overall, for few, you might already know how to do it, but you may not know, when to do it and when to use it, which I will cover here. This blog is not make help you become a specialist or an Admin, but to be a Professional!!!
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