JNTUH B.Tech 4th year (4-2) Storage Area Networks gives you detail information of Storage Area Networks (Elective – IV) R13 syllabus It will be help full to understand you complete curriculum of the year.
Objectives
- Understand Storage Area Networks characteristics and components.
- Become familiar with the SAN vendors and their products Learn Fibre Channel protocols and how SAN components use them to communicate with each other
- Become familiar with Cisco MDS 9000 Multilayer Directors and Fabric Switches Thoroughly learn Cisco SAN-OS features.
- Understand the use of all SAN-OS commands. Practice variations of SANOS features
UNIT- I
Review data creation and the amount of data being created and understand the value of data to a business, challenges in data storage and data management, Solutions available for data storage, Core elements of a data center infrastructure, role of each element in supporting business activities Hardware and software components of the host environment, Key protocols and concepts used by each component ,Physical and logical components of a connectivity environment ,Major physical components of a disk drive and their function, logical constructs of a physical disk, access characteristics,and performance Implications.
UNIT- II
Concept of RAID and its components , Different RAID levels and their suitability for different application environments: RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 3, RAID 4, RAID 5, RAID 0+1, RAID 1+0, RAID 6, Compare and contrast integrated and modular storage systems ,High-level architecture and working of an intelligent storage system Evolution of networked storage, Architecture, components, and topologies of FC-SAN, NAS, and lP-SAN , Benefits of the different networked storage options, Understand the need for long-term archiving solutions and describe how CAS fulfills the need , Understand the appropriateness of the different networked storage options for different application environments
UNIT- III
List reasons for planned/unplanned outages and the impact of downtime, Impact of downtime, Differentiate between business continuity (BC) and disaster recovery (DR) ,RTO and RPO, Identify single points of failure in a storage infrastructure and list solutions to mitigate these failures.
Case Studies
- The technologies described in the course are reinforced with EMC examples of actual solutions.
- Realistic case studies enable the participant to design the most appropriate solution for given sets of criteria.
TEXTBOOK
- EMC Corporation, Information Storage and Management, Wiley.
- REFERENCE BOOKS
- Robert Spalding, “Storage Networks: The Complete Reference”, Tata McGraw Hill, Osborne, 2003.
- Marc Farley, “Building Storage Networks”, Tata McGraw Hill, Osborne, 2001.
- Meeta Gupta, Storage Area Network Fundamentals, Pearson Education Limited, 2002.
Outcomes
- Ability to demonstrate the storage area networks and their products Ability to provide the mechanisms for the backup/recovery.
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