06CS833 - Storage Area Networks |
PART – A |
UNIT 1 |
INTRODUCTION: Server Centric IT Architecture and its Limitations;
Storage – Centric IT Architecture and its advantages; Case study: Replacing a server with Storage Networks; The Data Storage and Data Access problem;
The Battle for size and access. |
UNIT 2 |
INTELLIGENT DISK SUBSYSTEMS - 1: Architecture of Intelligent
Disk Subsystems; Hard disks and Internal I/O Channels, JBOD, Storage
virtualization using RAID and different RAID levels; |
UNIT 3 |
INTELLIGENT DISK SUBSYSTEMS – 1, I/O TECHNIQUES - 1: Caching: Acceleration of Hard Disk Access; Intelligent disk subsystems;
Availability of disk subsystems. The Physical I/O path from the CPU to the
Storage System; SCSI. |
UNIT 4 |
I/O TECHNIQUES – 2, NETWORK ATTACHED STORAGE: Fibre
Channel Protocol Stack; Fibre Channel SAN; IP Storage. The NAS
Architecture, The NAS hardware Architecture, The NAS
Software Architecture, Network connectivity, NAS as a storage system. |
PART – B |
UNIT 5 |
FILE SYSTEM AND NAS: Local File Systems; Network file Systems and
file servers; Shared Disk file systems; Comparison of fibre Channel and
NAS. |
UNIT 6 |
STORAGE VIRTUALIZATION: Definition of Storage virtualization;
Implementation Considerations; Storage virtualization on Block or file level;
Storage virtualization on various levels of the storage Network; Symmetric
and Asymmetric storage virtualization in the Network |
UNIT 7 |
SAN ARCHITECTURE AND HARDWARE DEVICES: Overview,
creating a Network for storage; SAN Hardware devices, The fibre channel
switch, Host Bus adaptors; Putting the storage in SAN; Fabric operation from
a Hardware perspective. |
UNIT 8 |
SOFTWARE COMPONENTS OF SAN: The switch’s Operating system,
Device Drivers, The Supporting the switch’s components, Configuration
options for SANs. Panning for business continuity. |
REFERENCE |
TEXT BOOKS: |
1. Storage Networks Explained – Ulf Troppens, Rainer Erkens and
Wolfgang Muller, John Wiley & Sons, 2003.
2. Storage Networks: The Complete Reference – Robert Spalding,
Tata McGraw Hill, 2003.
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Reference Books |
1. Storage Area Network Essentials: A Complete Guide to
understanding and Implementing SANs – Richard Barker and
Paul Massiglia, John Wiley India, 2002.
2. Storage Networking Fundamentals Marc Farley, Cisco Press,
2005. |