NETWORK STORAGE MANAGEMENT SYLLABUS CA5273

NETWORK STORAGE MANAGEMENT SYLLABUS

CA5273

ANNA UNIVERSITY TRICHY

LTPC

3003

UNIT I INTRODUCTION TO STORAGE TECHNOLOGY 9

Concepts of storage networking – Business applications defined for Storage – Sources of Data and states of data creation – Data center requirements and evolution – Managing complexity – I/O and the five pillars of technology – Storage infrastructure – Evolution of storage – Information lifecycle management.

UNIT II STORAGE SYSTEMS ARCHITECTURE 9

Storage architectures – Device overviews – Peripheral connectivity – Components and concepts – Magnetic disk storage – Disk systems – Disk arrays – RAID storage arrays – Magnetic tape storage – Physical vs. Logical disk organization – Caching properties and algorithms connectivity options – Differences in bus and network architectures.

UNIT III INTRODUCTION TO NETWORK STORAGE 9

Putting storage on the Network – The NAS Hardware – Software architecture – Network connectivity – NAS as a storage system – NAS connectivity options – Connectivity protocols – Management principles – Storage Area Networks: Architecture – Hardware devices – Host bus adaptors – Connectivity – Content Addressable Storage (CAS): Elements – Connectivity options – Standards and Management principles – Hybrid storage solutions overview.

UNIT IV INTRODUCTION TO INFORMATION AVAILABILITY 9

Business continuity and disaster recovery basics: Local business continuity techniques – Remote business continuity techniques – Storage design and implementations of the Business continuity plan – Managing availability – Disaster recovery principles & techniques.

UNIT V MANAGING AND STORAGE VIRTUALIZATION 9

Managing Availability: Availability metrics – Implementing the plan – Finding the holes – Maintaining serviceability capacity planning – Management tools – Overview information security virtualization – Different virtualization – Technologies and processes including file and block level virtualization.

Total: 45

TEXT BOOKS

1. Robert Spalding,” Storage Networks: The Complete Reference” Tata McGraw Hill Publishing Company, New Delhi, 2003.

2. Marc Farley Osborne,” Building Storage Networks”, Tata McGraw Hill Publishing Company, New Delhi, 2000.

REFERENCES

1. J Gerald Kowalski and T.Mark Mayburk,” Information storage and Retrieval Systems”, Springer International Edition, New Delhi, 2006.

2. Ulf Troppens, Rainer Erkens and Wolfgang Muller “Storage Networks Explained” Wiley &Sons, USA, 2004.