This document provides information on the Information Storage Systems elective course, including course objectives, outcomes, and units. The main objective is to introduce students to different storage requirements, data center environments, intelligent storage systems, and storage technologies. The course aims to help students understand basics of information storage, data protection RAID, fiber channel storage area networks, network-attached storage, and object-based and unified storage. It is divided into 5 units covering these topics over 4 credit hours.
This document provides information on the Information Storage Systems elective course, including course objectives, outcomes, and units. The main objective is to introduce students to different storage requirements, data center environments, intelligent storage systems, and storage technologies. The course aims to help students understand basics of information storage, data protection RAID, fiber channel storage area networks, network-attached storage, and object-based and unified storage. It is divided into 5 units covering these topics over 4 credit hours.
4 0 0 3 Course Educational Objectives: The main objective of the course is to introduce the students to different storage requirements, Data Center Environment, Data Protection Policies, Intelligent Storage Systems, and Storage Technologies. Upon completion of this course, the student should be able to: ✤ Giving idea about storage technology solutions. ✤ Giving idea about describing common storage management and roles. ✤ Giving idea about the concept of information availability and its measurement. ✤ Giving idea about the Components of an Intelligent Storage System. ✤ Giving idea about the File Systems and Network File Sharing. Course Outcomes: At the end of the course the student will be able to ✤ Understand the Basics Of Information Storage. ✤ Understand the Data Center Environment. ✤ Understand the Data Protection Raid. ✤ Understand the Fiber Channel Storage Area Networks. ✤ Understand the Network-Attached, Object Based & Unified Storage. UNIT-I (11 Lectures) INTRODUCTION TO INFORMATION STORAGE: Information Storage, Evolution of Storage Architecture, Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization and Cloud Computing G V P College of Engineering (Autonomous) 2013 166
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DATA CENTER ENVIRONMENT: Application, Database Management System (DBMS), Host (Compute), Connectivity, Storage, Disk Drive Components, Disk Drive Performance, Host Access to Data, Direct-Attached Storage , Storage Design Based on Application Requirements and Disk Performance, Disk Native Command Queuing , Introduction to Flash Drives, Concept in Practice: VMware ESXi. UNIT-III (12 Lectures) DATA PROTECTION: RAID: RAID Implementation Methods , RAID Array Components, RAID Techniques , RAID Levels , RAID Impact on Disk Performance, RAID Comparison, Hot Spares. INTELLIGENT STORAGE SYSTEMS: I Components of an Intelligent Storage System, Storage Provisioning, Types of Intelligent Storage Systems, Concepts in Practice: EMC Symmetric and VNX. STORAGE NETWORKING TECHNOLOGIES UNIT-IV (12 Lectures) FIBRE CHANNEL STORAGE AREA NETWORKS: Fibre Channel: Overview, The SAN and Its Evolution, Components of FC SAN , FC Connectivity, Switched Fabric Ports, Fibre Channel Architecture, Fabric Services , Switched Fabric Login Types, Zoning, FC SAN Topologies, Virtualization in SAN, Concepts in Practice: EMC Connectrix and EMC VPLEX . IP SAN and FCoE : FCIP, FCoE. UNIT-V (13 Lectures) NETWORK-ATTACHED STORAGE : General-Purpose Servers versus NAS Devices, Benefits of NAS, File Systems and Network File Sharing, Components of NAS, NAS I/O Operation, NAS Implementations, NAS File-Sharing Protocols, Factors
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Affecting NAS Performance, File-Level Virtualization, Concepts in
Practice: EMC Isilon and EMC VNX Gateway. OBJECT-BASED AND UNIFIED STORAGE: Object-Based Storage Devices, Content-Addressed Storage, CAS Use Cases, Unified Storage, Concepts in Practice: EMC Atoms, EMC VNX, and EMC Centera. TEXT BOOKS: 1. G.Somasundaram, A.Shrivastava, “EMC Corporation, Information Storage and Management: Storing, Managing and Protecting Digital Information in Classic, Virtualized and Cloud Environment”, 2nd Edition, Wiley publication, 2012. 2. Robert Spalding, “Storage Networks: The Complete Reference”, 1st Edition, Tata McGraw Hill/Osborne, 2003. REFERENCES: 1. Marc Farley, “Building Storage Networks”, 2nd Edition, Tata McGraw Hill/Osborne, 2001. 2. Meeta Gupta, “Storage Area Network Fundamentals”, 1st Edition, Pearson Education, 2002.