Hey guys, I am looking for more information on this topic. Any of you all work with Fiber Channel, iSCSI, FCOE, NAS, or any other Storage Networking disciplines?

I would love for any to share their experiences or thoughts toward this topic and any suggestions on a career in Storage Networking

I can only comment from an iSCSI perspective, my company uses EqualLogic. First, I think you might want to consider broadening your scope, I don't know if you'd find a career in storage networking, I think that larger companies and enterprises have storage engineers and they work on the storage itself and the connecting network but I might be wrong.

I have always worked in smaller companies and I enjoy working on systems, virtualization, networking, storage, enterprise applications, etc. - the tradeoff might be that in a smaller company the budget might not be there for a full blown SAN and the infrastructure to support it.

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:

http://storagebod.typepad.com/ http://storagezilla.typepad.com/storagezilla/ http://storagemojo.com/ http://www.storagerap.com/

Make a list of vendor websites and read them regularly, know the names of different kit, know the basic differences.... maybe consider looking for an entry level job at one of the manufacturers? Being good at any discipline will take some work, good luck!