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Unit 1
Introduction to Storage Technology Information storage, evolution of storage technology and architecture, data center infrastructure, key challenges in Managing information, information lifecycle. Storage system Environments: components of storage system environment, Disk Drive components, Disk Drive Performance, fundamental laws governing disk performance, logical components of the host, application requirements and disk performance.
Unit 2
Data Protection: RAID: Implementation of RAID, RAID array components, RAID levels, RAID comparison, RAID Impact on disk performance, host spares. Intelligent Storage System:
Components of an Intelligent Storage System, Intelligent Storage array, concepts in Practice:
EMC CLARIION and Symmetric.
Unit 3
Direct - Attached Storage and Introduction to SCSI :Types of DAS, DAS benefits and limitations, disk drive interfaces, introduction to parallel SCSI, SCSI command model. Storage Area Networks: fibre channel, The SAN and Its evolution, components of SAN, FC connectivity, Fibre channel ports, fibre channel architecture, zoning, fiber channel login types, concepts in practice: EMC Connectrix.
Unit 4
Network attached storage: general purpose servers vs NAS Devices, benefits of NAS, NAS file I/O, components of NAS, NAS Implementations, NAS file sharing protocols, NAS I/O operations, factors effecting NAS Performance and availability, concepts in practice: EMC Celerra.IP SAN: iscsi, fcip. Content - addressed storage: Fixed content and Archives, types of archives, features and benefits of CAS, CAS Architecture, object storage and retrieval in CAS, CAS Examples, concepts in practice: EMC Centera.
Unit 5
Storage Virtualization: Formats of Virtualization, SNIA Storage virtualization taxonomy, storage virtualization configurations, storage virtualization challenges, types of storage virtualization, concepts in practice: EMC Invista, Rainifinity. Introduction to business continuity: information availability, BC terminology, BC planning life cycle, Failure analysis, business impact analysis, BC technology solutions, concepts in practice: EMC Power path. Backup and recovery: backup purpose, backup considerations, backup granularity, recovery considerations, backup methods, backup process, backup and restore operations , backup topologies, backup in NAS environments, backup technologies, concepts in practice: EMC Networker, EMC Disk Library(EDL).
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REFERENCES:
1. G. Somasundaram, A. Shrivastava, EMC Corporation: Information Storage and Management, 1st Edition, wiley publishing, 2009.
2. Robert Spalding, Storage Networks: The Complete Reference, 1st Edition,TMH, 2003.
3. Marc Farley: Building Storage Networks, 2nd Edition, Tata McGraw Hill, Osborne, 2001.
4. Meeta Gupta: Storage Area Network Fundamentals, 2nd Edition, Pearson Education Limited, 2002.
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