CSE504:STORAGE TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION

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Course Objectives:
It provides the awareness about the growing Data Storage needs.
It provides the ways to handle the challenges in storage industry ahead and to prepare
the technical manpower which can handle the Data Storage Equipments.
Unit I
Storage System : Introduction to Information Storage and Management :
Types of Data, Big Data, Information, Storage, Evolution of Storage Technology &
Architecture, Data Center Infrastructure, Challenges in Information Management,
Information Life Cycle, Overview of virtualization and cloud computing
Storage System Environment and Data Protection : Popular connectivity
protocols. Disk Drive Components, Disk Drive Performance, Key I/O characteristics of
an application, Application virtualization, File system mapping, LVM, Compute and
Desktop Virtualization, Laws governing the Disk Performance, Compare I/O controller
utilization and response time, and storage design based on application requirements,
Disk drive performance. Flash drives,DAS, host to storage access, RAID
Implementation, RAID array Components, RAID implementation methods.
Unit II
Intelligent Storage System : Server flash-caching technology, back end, physical
disks and Disk Drive Interfaces, Components of an Intelligent Storage System, front
end, and cache operation and management, Storage Tiering and Cache Tiering,
Traditional and virtual storage provisioning, LUN expansion, and LUN Masking, Case
Study- Study of EMC CLARiiON and Symmetrix storage arrays, their Architecture,
management, components.
Storage Area Network : Fibre Channel Architecture, Zoning, Fibre Channel Login
Types, Fibre Channel, Components of SAN, FC connectivity, Fibre Channel Ports, FC
topologies, Organization of FC data, Fabric services, Virtual SAN, Block Level
Virtualization, SAN/NAS Capacity Management, I/O workload management in
SAN/NAS, Designing SAN/NAS, Case Study of EMC Connectrix
Unit III
ISCSI, FCIP and Network Attached Storage : iSCSI names, FCIP protocol, and
FICP protocol stack, Components of FCoE, Components of iSCSI, host connectivity
options, and ISCSI topologies, Protocol stack, FCoE frame mapping, and Converged
Enhanced Ethernet. General purpose Servers v/s NAS Devices, NAS File Sharing
Protocols, NAS I/O Operations, Factors affecting NAS Performance & Availability, NAS
Benefits, NAS File I/O, NAS Components, NAS Implementation, File Level
Virtualization, Case Study EMC Celerra.
Object and Content Based Storage : Compare traditional and object-based
storage model, key components of OSD, Comparison of hierarchical file system and
flat address space, Storage and retrieval process in OSD, CAS, components of unified
storage, Data access from unified storage. Case Study of EMC Centera
Unit IV
Business Continuity, Backup and Recovery : Information Availability, BC
Terminology, BC Planning Lifecycle, Failure Analysis, Business Impact Analysis,
Architecture, Granularity, Considerations, Methods, Process, Backup and Restore
Operations, BC Technology Solutions, Continuous data protection (CDP). Backup
Purpose, Backup to tapes, backup to disks, backup to virtual tapes, data
deduplication methods,Backup Topologies, Backup in NAS Environment, Backup
Technologies, Data deduplication implementations, Backup approaches in virtualized
Environment
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Unit IV Replication : Local replication technologies, restore & restart considerations,
creating multiple replicas, Local Replication at Source & Target, uses, data
consistency, local replication technologies, CDP, local replication in virtualized
environment, management interface, Remote Replication Technologies, CDP remote
replication, Case Study of EMC Snapview, modes of remote replication, Remote
replication/migration in virtualized environment
Unit V
Cloud Computing : Cloud computing overview, essential cloud characteristics, and
cloud enabling technologies, Service models and cloud deployment models, Cloud
infrastructure framework, Physical infrastructure, virtual infrastructure, application
and platform software, Cloud management and service creation tools, and cloud
optimized storage and concept in practice.
Unit VI
Storage Security and Management : Storage Security Framework, Risk Triad,
Storage Security Domains, Network firewalls, security implementation in IP SAN,
Security Implementations in Storage Networking, Kerberos, Security in virtualized
and cloud environment, and concept in practice.
Managing the Storage Infrastructure : Monitoring the Storage Infrastructure,
Storage infrastructure management in virtualized environment, Challenges in
managing information, Information lifecycle management, Storage multitenancy,
Storage Management Activities, Benefits of ILM, storage tiering, and concept in
practice, Case Study of EMC Control Center.
Text Books:
1. INFORMATION STORAGE AND MANAGEMENT STORING, MANAGING,
AND PROTECTING DIGITAL INFORMATION IN CLASSIC, VIRTUALIZED, AND CLOUD
ENVIRONMENTS by EMC EDUCATION SERVICES, WILEY, 2nd Edition, (2012)
References:
1. STORAGE NETWORKS: THE COMPLETE REFERENCE by ROBERT SPALDING, TATA
MCGRAW HILL, 1st Edition, (2003)
2. BUILDING STORAGE NETWORKS by MARC FARLEY OSBORNE, TATA MCGRAW
HILL, 1st Edition, (2001)
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