17CS754 Storage Area Networks syllabus for CS

Storage System

Introduction to evolution of storage architecture, key data center elements, virtualization, and cloud computing. Key data center elements – Host (or compute), connectivity, storage, and application in both classic and virtual environments. RAID implementations, techniques, and levels along with the impact of RAID on application performance.Components of intelligent storage systems and virtual storage provisioning and intelligent storage system implementations.

Storage Networking Technologies and Virtualization

Fibre Channel SAN components, connectivity options, and topologies including access protection mechanism ‘zoning”, FC protocol stack, addressing and operations, SAN-based virtualization and VSAN technology, iSCSI and FCIP protocols for storage access over IP network, Converged protocol FCoE and its components, Network Attached Storage (NAS) - components, protocol and operations, File level storage virtualization, Object based storage and unified storage platform.

Backup, Archive, and Replication

This unit focuses on information availability and business continuity solutions in both virtualized and non-virtualized environments. Business continuity terminologies, planning and solutions, Clustering and multipathing architecture to avoid single points of failure, Backup and recovery - methods, targets and topologies, Data deduplication and backup in virtualized environment, Fixed content and data archive, Local replication in classic and virtual environments, Remote replication in classic and virtual environments, Three-site remote replication and continuous data protection

Cloud Computing Characteristics and benefits

This unit focuses on the business drivers, definition, essential characteristics, and phases of journey to the Cloud. ,Business drivers for Cloud computing, Definition of Cloud computing, Characteristics of Cloud computing, Steps involved in transitioning from Classic data center to Cloud computing environment Services and deployment models, Cloud infrastructure components, Cloud migration considerations

Securing and Managing Storage Infrastructure

This chapter focuses on framework and domains of storage security along with covering security. implementation at storage networking. Security threats, and countermeasures in various domains Security solutions for FC-SAN, IP-SAN and NAS environments, Security in virtualized and cloud environments, Monitoring and managing various information infrastructure components in classic and virtual environments, Information lifecycle management (ILM) and storage tiering, Cloud service management activities

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
• Illustrate 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