ST104: Brocade™ FOS 8.x / 9.x Admin Advanced

Training: Brocade™ - Storage Solutions

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In the Brocade™ Workshop ST104 Brocade™ FOS 8.x / 9.x Admin Advanced you will learn troubleshooting and maintenance of an open SAN.

Online training Online training

Start: 2025-10-13 | 10:00 am

End: 2025-10-17 | 01:30 pm

Location: Online

Price: 4.150,00 € plus VAT.

Presence training Presence training

Start: 2025-11-17 | 10:00 am

End: 2025-11-21 | 01:30 pm

Location: Nürnberg

Price: 4.150,00 € plus VAT.

Online training Online training

Start: 2025-11-24 | 10:00 am

End: 2025-11-28 | 01:30 pm

Location: Nürnberg

Price: 4.150,00 € plus VAT.

Hybrid training Hybrid training

Start: 2026-01-12 | 10:00 am

End: 2026-01-16 | 01:30 pm

Location: Nürnberg

Price: 4.150,00 € plus VAT.

Hybrid training Hybrid training

Start: 2026-03-09 | 10:00 am

End: 2026-03-13 | 01:30 pm

Location: Nürnberg

Price: 4.150,00 € plus VAT.

Online training Online training

Start: 2025-10-13 | 10:00 am

End: 2025-10-17 | 01:30 pm

Location: Online

Price: 4.150,00 € plus VAT.

Presence training Presence training

Start: 2025-11-17 | 10:00 am

End: 2025-11-21 | 01:30 pm

Location: Nürnberg

Price: 4.150,00 € plus VAT.

Online training Online training

Start: 2025-11-24 | 10:00 am

End: 2025-11-28 | 01:30 pm

Location: Nürnberg

Price: 4.150,00 € plus VAT.

Hybrid training Hybrid training

Start: 2026-01-12 | 10:00 am

End: 2026-01-16 | 01:30 pm

Location: Nürnberg

Price: 4.150,00 € plus VAT.

Hybrid training Hybrid training

Start: 2026-03-09 | 10:00 am

End: 2026-03-13 | 01:30 pm

Location: Nürnberg

Price: 4.150,00 € plus VAT.

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Agenda:

  • Brocade™ product presentation
    • Hardware 8/16/32/64 GB Brocade™ Products
    • Brocade™ Support Link

  • FOS 9.0 – 9.2 features:
    • Traffic Optimizer (TO) (Gen7 only)
    • Fabric congestion notification
    • New web tools
    • Fabric zone locking
    • Maintenance account
    • Flow monitoring
      • sys_flow_monitor
      • VF support
      • VM Insight
      • VMID+
      • Real-time streaming of hardware violations
    • MAPS:
      • FPI profiles
      • Global quiet time
      • dflt_always_active_policy
      • Adaptive MAPS notifications
    • Introduction of TruFOS certificate (from 9.1)
    • Mandatory TruFOS certificates for all Gen6/7 (from 9.2)
    • Improved Cisco™ UCS connectivity
    • Default secure configuration (9.2)
    • Firmware patch

  • Overview Brocade™ SANnav (BNA successor)

  • NVMe over FC
    • Implementation with Windows

  • SAN design

  • Installation and configuration
    • Initial configuration
      • Fabric parameters
      • Time server
      • Syslog
    • Initial security settings
      • Password rules
      • RBAC
      • LDAP
      • RADIUS
      • ACL's
      • IP filters

  • Reporting and monitoring
    • Fabric vision technology
      • Definition
      • Components
        • MAPS
        • Flow vision
        • ClearLink Diagnostics (D_Port)
    • SAN monitoring with SNMP
      • SNMP components
      • SNMP version authentication

  • Administration and maintenance
    • Backup/restore of switch configuration
    • Firmware maintenance
    • Firmware upgrade

  • Advanced zoning
    • Zoning enforcement
    • Advanced zoning commands
    • Traffic isolation zoning
    • QoS zoning
    • Peer zoning

  • Fibre Channel theory
    • FC protocol architecture (FC-0 to FC-4)
    • Communication paths

  • FC routing
    • Principal switch
    • Virtual channel
    • FSPF link cost / DLS / IOD
    • Exchange based routing
    • Port based routing
    • FC-to-FC routing (LSAN)

  • Trunking
    • Functionality
    • Port based routing
    • Exchange based routing

  • FC long distance
    • Distance connectivity options
    • Extended fabric configuration
    • E_Port credit recovery
    • Inflight encryption and compression
    • Diagnostic port (D_Port)

  • Troubleshooting
    • Switch status commands
    • Analysis of switch error messages, fabric-log and PortlogDump
    • Procedure for firmware download and connectivity issues
    • Performance analysis
    • HBA configuration

  • FOS software features
    • LSAN zoning
    • Access gateway



Objectives:

A central focus of the course ST104 Brocade™ FOS 8.x / 9.x Admin Advanced is the monitoring, analysis and troubleshooting of errors in the SAN. Practical examples are used to show how problems in the SAN can be proactively prevented and how errors can be detected and eliminated. To this end, in-depth knowledge of the FC protocol is built up and the relationships and interaction of the individual components located in the SAN are presented.

The course uses practical exercises to provide information on understanding log files, hardware diagnostics output and port log dumps. Within the framework of practical exercises, the course participant will gain an understanding of how problems and performance bottlenecks in the SAN can be identified and, if necessary, eliminated.

The presentation of security in the SAN and here particularly the implementation of SCC, DCC and DHCHAP isanother focus of the course.

The complex heterogeneous test environment is composed of:
-Servers: Windows, Linux or VMware™
-Storage: All-Flash Storage Systems
-Switches: Brocade™ G720/ G620/ 6505/ 6510


This training serves as a practical supplement for the "Brocade™ GEN 7 SAN Specialist" certification.

Target audience:

The training ST104 Brocade™ FOS 8.x / 9.x Admin Advanced is ideally for:

  • Storage and SAN administrators
  • Technicians
  • Support staff
  • Personnel who want to update their SAN know-how and close gaps

Prerequisites:

To be able to follow the course content and learning pace of the workshop ST104 Brocade™ FOS 8.x / 9.x Admin Advanced effectively, the following knowledge is required:

Other Info:

qSkills™ is a Brocade™ technology and cooperation partner and is currently the only IT training company in Europe that has GEN7 switches (64GBit).
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Price:

4.150,00 € plus VAT.

(including lunch & drinks)

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