CCIE Storage Book List

Information taken from: (Word Document)
http://www.cisco.com/web/learning/le3/ccie/docs/CCIEStoragerecommendedtraining1.doc

This information contains some other links and courses useful to the Storage Exams.

1. Books: Cisco Press Titles
• Storage Networking Fundamentals (Farley, ISBN# 1587051621)
• Storage Networking Protocol Fundamentals (Long, ISBN# 1587051605)

2. Books: Other Publications
• Fibre Channel: A Comprehensive Introduction (Kembel, Northwest Learning Assoc. Inc., ISBN# 0931836840)
• Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop (Kembel, Truestedt, Northwest Learning Assoc. Inc., ISBN# 0931836824)
• Fibre Channel Switched Fabric (Kembel, Northwest Learning Assoc. Inc., ISBN# 0931836719)
• Fibre Channel for SANs (Benner, McGraw-Hill, ISBN# 0071374132 )
• IBM FICON Native Implementation and Reference Guide (IBM Redbooks)
• iSCSI: The Universal Storage Connection (Hufferd, Addison-Wesley Professional, ISBN# 020178419X)
• Storage Network Performance Analysis (Simitci, Wiley, ISBN# 076451685X)
• Storage Security: Protecting, SANs, NAS and DAS (Chirillo, Wiley, ISBN# 0764516884)

3. Courses
• SNIA courses: (www.snia.org), Access the page http://www.snia.org/education/education_continuum/courses/ and select your choice of course
• SAN ACCELERATE: Go to www.cisco.com/go/pec, Search for SAN Accelerate. You will land on http://cisco.partnerelearning.com/peclms/lang-en/management/TAX_Search.asp?SearchStr=San%20accelerate&UserMode=0&SelectedNodeID=0&VSC=TAX_CiscomView_All&VSO=A&View=0&SearchNodeID=0&AdvType=2&FindBy=1&UpcomingDays=180&SelectedNodeID=0#Results. PEC Login required.
• ICSNS Implementing Cisco Storage Networking Solutions: http://tools.cisco.com/E-Learning-IT/LPCM/LpcmLLController?action=CourseDesc&COURSE_ID=5059
• IASNS Implementing Cisco Advanced Storage Networking Solutions: http://tools.cisco.com/E-Learning-IT/LPCM/LpcmLLController?action=CourseDesc&COURSE_ID=5061
• DCSNS Designing Cisco Storage Network Solutions: http://tools.cisco.com/E-Learning-IT/LPCM/LpcmLLController?action=CourseDesc&COURSE_ID=5060
• CMSS Cisco Mainframe Storage Solution: http://www.cisco.com/web/learning/le31/le46/products/products-storage-networking.html

4. Links
• Comprehensive set of information:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/ps4159/ps4358/tsd_products_support_series_home.html
• MDS Configuration Guides:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/ps4159/ps4358/products_installation_and_configuration_guides_list.html
• Configuration examples:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/ps4159/ps4358/prod_configuration_examples_list.html
• Troubleshooting Guides:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/ps4159/ps4358/prod_troubleshooting_guides_list.html
• Design guides:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps5989/products_implementation_design_guides_list.html
• Interoperability Information:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps5989/products_device_support_tables_list.html

• White Papers links:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps5989/prod_white_papers_list.html
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/ps4159/ps4358/prod_white_papers_list.html

6. Standards:
• T-11 http://www.t11.org/index.html FC-SW , FC-GS, FC-PH, FC-BB, FC-SB, FC-FS
• iSCSI RFC 3720 http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3720.txt
• IPFC RFC 3821 http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3821