Welcome to Brocade Training. A Brocade Certified SAN Designer is a candidate with a detailed understanding of SAN design principles as well an expertise in implementing complete SAN solutions. A Brocade Certified SAN Designer must be able assess SAN requirements, identify key SAN design concepts, weigh design trade-offs against various aspects such as manageability, availability, scalability, and performance and translate a SAN architecture into a deployment plan. To achieve this level of expertise you must first pass the Brocade Certified SAN Designer 4 Gbit/sec Exam.

Suggested Curriculum

• CSD 264: Brocade SAN Designer Web-based Training course
• CSD 266: Brocade SAN Designer Instructor-led Training course

The Brocade Certified SAN Designer 4 Gbit/sec Exam tests against the following objectives:

SAN Assessment/Data Gathering

• Given a specific business scenario, identify what information should be collected about their current and target environments.

SAN Design

• Identify Brocade products and third-party components to solve a business problem.
• Given a scenario, create a SAN design to meet customer performance, availability, and scalability requirements.
• Given SAN requirements identify which SAN topology to implement. Define the appropriate device attachment scheme to meet availability/performance requirements.
• Given a scenario, plan existing product/equipment integration.
• Given a scenario, analyze bandwidth/availability requirements to determine ISL/IFL oversubscription ratios for a SAN design.
• Define SAN design terms.
• Describe security features.
• Given a scenario choose which long distance solution to implement.
• Given a scenario, design an FC routing solution to share devices between multiple edge fabrics.
• Given a multi-fabric environment and a requirement for a set of devices to communicate, determine the appropriate solution.

Deployment Plan Documentation

• Describe the various documentation components or deliverables on a SAN design project.

SAN Monitoring and Tuning

• Given a scenario, determine how to validate the implementation of the SAN design.
• Given a scenario, optimize the performance of an existing SAN.

BCSD in a Nutshell

• BCSD In-A-Nutshell Quick Study Guide (FREE)
  The BCSD quick study guide is targeted for those who have attended the CSD 264 or CSD 266 training courses. This self-study guide summarizes the key topics on the BCSD exam #143-250.

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