(CSE504:STORAGE TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION
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Course Objectives:
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‘The course provides the awareness about the growing data storage needs.
‘The course provides the ways to handle the challenges in storage industry ahead and to
prepare the technical manpower which can handle the data storage equipments,
‘The course focuses on information storage and management in classic, virtualized and
cloud environments which includes data center key elements, intelligent storage systems,
storage networking technologies and various business continuity options,
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 loud 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 1/0 controller
Utilization and response time, and storage design based on application requirements,
Disk drive performance. Flash drives,DAS, hast to storage access, RAID
Implementation, RAID array Components, RAID implementation methods.
Intelligent Storage System : Server flash-caching technology, back end, physical
‘isks 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 : Fiore 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, 1/0 workload management in
SAN/NAS, Designing SAN/NAS, Case Study of EMC Connectrix
ISCSI, FCIP and Network Attached Storage : ISCSI names, FCIP protocol, and
P 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 1/0 Operations, Factors affecting NAS Performance & Availablity, NAS
Benefits, NAS File 1/0, 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 accéss from unified storage. Case Study of EMC Centera
Business Continuity, Backup and Recovery : Information Availabilty, BC
Terminology, BC Planning Lifecycle, Failure Analysis, Business Impact Analysis,
Architecture, Granularity, Considerations, Methods, Process, Backup and Restore
Operations, BC Tecnology Solutions, Continuous data protection (COP). Backup
Purpose, Backup to tapes, backup to disks, backup to virtual tapes, data
eduplication methods Backup Topologies, Backup in NAS Environment, Backup
Technologies, Data deduplication implementations, Backup approaches in virtualized
Environment
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Text Books:
References:
Replication : Local replication technologies, restore & restart considerations,
‘creating multiple replicas, Local Replication at Source & Target, uses, data
‘consistency, local replication technologies, COP, 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
Cloud Computing : Cloud computing overview, essential cloud characteristics, and
‘loud enabling technologies, Service madels 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.
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 mulkitenancy,
Storage Management Activities, Benefts of ILM, storage tiering, and concept in
practice, Case Study of EMC Control Center.
1, INFORMATION STORAGE AND MANAGEMENT: STORING, MANAGING, AND
PROTECTING DIGITAL INFORMATION by EMC, WILEY, 2nd Edition, (2013)
1. STORAGE NETWORKS: THE COMPLETE REFERENCE by ROBERT SPALDING,
MCGRAW HILL EDUCATION, 1st Eeition, (2003)
2, DATABASE CLOUD STORAGE: THE ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO ORACLE AUTOMATIC
STORAGE MANAGEMENT by NITIN VENGURLEKAR, PRASAD BAGAL, MCGRAW HILL
EDUCATION, ist Edition, (2013)
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