15CS754 Storage Area Networks syllabus for CS

Storage System

Introduction to Information Storage: Evolution of Storage Architecture, Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization and Cloud Computing. Data Center Environment: Application, Host (Compute), Connectivity, Storage. Data Protection: RAID: RAID Implementation Methods, RAID Techniques, RAID Levels, RAID Impact on Disk Performance. Intelligent Storage Systems: Components of Intelligent Storage System, Storage Provisioning.

Text Book-1 Ch1: 1.2 to 1.4, Ch2: 2.1, 2.3 to 2.5, Ch3: 3.1, 3.3 to 3.5, Ch4: 4.1 and 4.2

Storage Networking Technologies

Fibre Channel Storage Area Networks: Components of FC SAN, FC connectivity, Fibre Channel Architecture, Zoning, FC SAN Topologies, Virtualization in SAN. IP SAN and FCoE: iSCSI, FCIP, FCoE. Network Attached Storage: Components of NAS, NAS I/O Operation, NAS File-Sharing Protocols, File-Level Virtualization, Object-Based Storage and Unified Storage: Object-Based Storage Devices, Content-Addressed Storage, Unified Storage.

Text Book-1 Ch5: 5.3, 5.4, 5.6, 5.9 to 5.11, Ch6: 6.1 to 6.3, Ch7: 7.4, 7.5, 7.7 and 7.9 Ch8: 8.1, 8.2 and 8.4

Backup, Archive and Replication

Introduction to Business Continuity: Information Availability, BC Terminology, BC Planning Lifecycle, Failure Analysis, BC Technology Solutions. Backup and Archive: Backup Methods, Backup Topologies, Backup Targets, Data Deduplication for Backup, Backup in Virtualized Environments, Data Archive. Local Replication: Replication Terminology, Uses of Local Replicas, Local Replication Technologies, Local Replication in a Virtualized Environment. Remote Replication: Remote Replication Technologies, Three-Site Replication, Remote Replication and Migration in a Virtualized Environment.

Text Book-1 Ch10: 10.5, 10.8, 10.10 to 10.13, Ch11: 11.1, 11.2, 11.4 and 11.8, Ch12: 12.2, 12.3 and 12.5

Cloud Computing and Virtualization

Cloud Enabling Technologies, Characteristics of Cloud Computing, Benefits of Cloud Computing, Cloud Service Models, Cloud Deployment Models, Cloud Computing Infrastructure, Cloud Challenges and Cloud Adoption Considerations. Virtualization Appliances: Black Box Virtualization, In-Band Virtualization Appliances, Outof-Band Virtualization Appliances, High Availability for Virtualization Appliances, Appliances for Mass Consumption. Storage Automation and Virtualization: Policy-Based Storage Management, Application-Aware Storage Virtualization, Virtualization-Aware Applications.

Text Book-1 Ch13: 13.1 to 13.8. Text Book-2 Ch9: 9.1 to 9.5 Ch13: 13.1 to 13.3

Securing and Managing Storage Infrastructure

Securing and Storage Infrastructure: Information Security Framework, Risk Triad, Storage Security Domains, Security Implementations in Storage Networking, Securing Storage Infrastructure in Virtualized and Cloud Environments.

Managing the Storage Infrastructure

Monitoring the Storage Infrastructure, Storage Infrastructure Management activities, Storage Infrastructure Management Challenges, Information Lifecycle management, Storage Tiering.

Text Book-1 Ch14: 14.1 to 14.5, Ch15: 15.1 to 15.3, 15.5 and 15.6

Course outcomes:

The students should be able to:

• Identify key challenges in managing information and analyze different storage networking technologies and virtualization

• Explain components and the implementation of NAS

• Describe CAS architecture and types of archives and forms of virtualization

• Ilustrate the storage infrastructure and management activities

Question paper pattern:

• The question paper will have ten questions.
• There will be 2 questions from each module.
• Each question will have questions covering all the topics under a module.
• The students will have to answer 5 full questions, selecting one full question from each module.

Text Books:

1. Information Storage and Management,Author :EMC Education Services, Publisher: Wiley ISBN: 9781118094839

2. Storage Virtualization, Author: Clark Tom, Publisher: Addison Wesley Publishing Company ISBN : 9780321262516

Reference Books:

NIL