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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: Fiber Channel Protocol Stack; Fiber 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 fiber 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 fiber channel switch, Host Bus adapters; 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.
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.
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.