HICET – Department of Computer Science and Engineering
PROGRAMME COURSE CODE NAME OF THE COURSE L T P C
B.E 16CS5304 INFORMATION STORAGE MANAGEMENT 3 0 0 3
1. Understand about the storage system
2. Learn the storage networking technologies
Course 3. Describe the core elements in a data center.
Objective 4. Learn the Cloud computing characteristics and benefits
5. Understand RAID and its various levels for data backup.
Instructional
Unit Description
Hours
STORAGE SYSTEM
Introduction to information storage, Virtualization and cloud computing, Key data
I center elements, Compute, application, and storage virtualization, Disk drive & flash 9
drive components and performance, RAID, Intelligent storage system and storage
provisioning (including virtual provisioning)
STORAGE NETWORKING TECHNOLOGIES AND VIRTUALIZATION
Fibre Channel SAN components, FC protocol and operations, Block level storage
II virtualization, iSCL and FCIP as an IP-SAN solutions, Converged networking option 9
FcoE, Network Attached Storage (NAS) components, protocol and operations, File
level storage virtualization, Object based storage and unified
storage platform.
BACKUP, ARCHIVE AND REPLICATION
Business continuity terminologies, planning and solutions, Clustering and multipathing
to avoid single points of failure, Backup and recovery methods, targets and topologies,
III data deduplication and backup in virtualized environment, fixed content and data 9
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
IV Cloud Enabling Technologies - Characteristics of Cloud Computing- Benefits of Cloud 9
Computing-Cloud Service Models Cloud deployment models- Cloud Computing
Infrastructure-Cloud Challenges, Cloud migration considerations
SECURING AND MANAGING STORAGE INFRASTRUCTURE
Security threats, and countermeasures in various domains, Security solutions for FC-
V SAN, IP-SAN and NAS environments, Security in virtualized and cloud environments, 9
Monitoring and managing various information infrastructure components in classic and
virtual environments, Information lifecycle Management (ILM) and storage tiering.
TOTAL INSTRUCTIONAL HOURS 45
CO1.Explain physical and logical components of a storage infrastructure including storage
subsystems, RAID and intelligent storage systems.
CO2. Describe storage networking technologies such as FC-SAN, IP-SAN, FCoE, NAS and object
based, and unified storage.
Course
CO3. Illustrate and articulate business continuity solutions, backup and replications, along with archive
Outcome
for managing fixed content.
CO4. Explain key characteristics, services, deployment models, and infrastructure components for a
cloud computing.
CO5. Implement the concept of security storage infrastructure management.
REFERENCE BOOKS:
R1: Information Storage and Management: Storing, Managing and Protecting Digital Information in classic,
Virtualized and Cloud Environments, 2nd Edition, EMC Educations Services, Wiley,May 2012.
R2:Information Storage and Management: Storing, Managing, and Protecting Digital Information,EMC
Education Services, Wiley, January 2010
R3: Ulf Troppens, Rainer Erkens, Wolfgang Mueller-Friedt, Rainer Wolafka, Nils Haustein ,"Storage Networks
Explained: Basics and Application of Fibre Channel SAN, NAS, iSCSI, InfiniBand and FCoE, 2nd Edition,
Wiley, July 2009