Brocade Certification - BCFD - Objectives



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Data Collection

  • Given a scenario, design a solution that meets the customer's requirements
  • Given a scenario, demonstrate knowledge of resiliency, redundancy, HA, and locality
  • Given a scenario, describe the various documents required in the design assessment

Practice by making up many scenarios and then deciding which is the best way to design it.

Management and Monitoring Tools

  • Given a scenario, describe how to satisfy a specific monitoring requirement
  • Demonstrate knowledge of Brocade management tools

What to monitor How to monitor these

Hardware/Software Products and Features

  • Demonstrate knowledge of interoperability of B-Series/M-Series products
  • Given a scenario, describe Brocade hardware products and their purpose
  • Given a scenario, demonstrate knowledge of Brocade software features and purpose

Interopmodes Features: VF, FCR, TI, QoS, FW, IRL, Trunking, Port Fencing, D_Port

Distance Solutions

  • Given availability, performance and distance requirements, design an appropriate long distance solution using Fibre Channel
  • Given a specific set of requirements, demonstrate ability to design a SAN extension solution using FCIP

FastWrite, Tape Pipelining, SACK Max distance for LWL and ELWL: Max performance of FCIP:

Performance Tuning Optimization

  • Given a performance scenario, determine an appropriate solution
  • Describe strategies for maximizing throughput in a Data Center Fabric

ICL, nohops, trunking. How to increase performance in FCIP and FCR:

Migration and Integration

  • Given an existing fabric, identify migration strategies to upgrade the fabric with new technology
  • Given a set of existing fabrics and network devices, determine a consolidation plan that minimizes disruption
  • Describe the requirements to integrate a Brocade DCX Backbone into an existing M-Series fabric

FCR, Integrated Routing, E_port on a switch in the M_series.

Security

  • Identify requirements for restricting which switches/devices may join a fabric
  • Identify security features to restrict administrative access to a switch

SCC, AUTH DCC Distribute: RBAC IPFilter