DEPARTMENT ELECTIVE - V (CS8E5XX) STORAGE AREA NETWORKS (3:0: Course code : CS8ESOL CIE 150% Hrs/ Week 103 SEE 150% SEE Hrs. :3 Hours Max. Marks : 100 Course Outcomes: On successful completion of the course the students will be able to 1. Understand basic concepts of storage network architecture and components of intelligent disk subsystems. 2. Analyze the various RAID levels used in storage virtualization, 3. Describe the various 10 technologies associated with Network Attached Storage. 4. Summarize the importance of Network File systems and considerations of implementing Storage virtualization at different levels. 5. Differentiate between symmetric and asymmetric virtualization and identify hardware and software components of a SAN architecture. MODULE 1 Introduction: Server Centric IT Architecture and its Limitations; Storage — Centric IT Architecture and its advantages. Intelligent Disk Subsystems -1: Architecture of Intelligent Disk Subsystems; Hard disks and Internal /O Channels. SLE: Case study: Replacing a server with Storage Networks 7 Hours MODULE 2 Intelligent Disk Subsystems -2, I/O Technologies -1: Storage virtualization using RAID and different RAID levels; Caching: Acceleration of Hard Disk Access. SLE: Availability of disk subsystems 8 Hours 54MODULE 3 I/O Technologies- 2: SCSI. Network Attached Storage: Fibre Channel Protocol Stack. SLE: The Physical VO path from the CPU to the Storage System 8 Hours MODULE 4 File System and NAS: Local File Systems; Network file Systems and file servers. Storage Virtualization-1: Definition of Storage virtualization; Implementation Considerations; Storage virtualization on Block or file level. SLE: Case Studies: Direct Access File System. 8 Hours MODULES Storage Virtualization-2: Symmetric and Asymmetric storage virtualization in the Network. SAN Architecture, Hardware devices and Software Components of SAN: Overview, creating a Network for storage; SAN Hardware devices, The fibre channel switch, Host Bus adaptors, The switch’s Operating system. SLE: Hardware devices: - Putting the storage in SAN 8 Hours TEXTBOOKS: 1. Storage Networks Explained, Ulf Troppens, Rainer Erkens and Wolfgang Muller, John Wiley & Sons, 2003. 2. Storage Networks: 2003. he Complete Reference, Robert Spalding, Tata McGraw Hill, REFERENCE BOOKS 1. Information storage and management, EMC Education services, Wiley India 2009, G Somasundaram, Alok, Srivatsava 2. Storage Area Network Essentials: A Complete Guide to understanding and Implementing SANs, Richard Barker and Paul Massiglia, John Wiley India, 2002. 3. Storage Networking Fundamentals Marc Farley, Cisco Press, 2005. 55