If you do not have access to anything like this at work then I'd
suggest digging in and doing some labs. A good place to start would be
Openfiler - set it up, learn it well, connect Linux machines to it,
Windows machines, learn how its replication feature works, set up some
SNMP and monitor it then move on to other open source or any eval
software you can get your hands on - I tried StarWind and Microsoft's
storage server edition of Windows in labs before buying EqualLogic -
you might also be able to get a LeftHand appliance eval. Learn
virtualization too, get an ESXi box running and learn to connect it to
the iSCSI network and lab, lab, lab - then, blog about it. Once you are
up to speed on the basic concepts you can move on to things like jumbo
frames, flow control, TOE, etc.
Also, start looking for storage blogs, you want to be a subject
matter expert? you gotta keep up on what is going on in that space:
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