HICET - Department of Computer Science and Engineering
HICET - Department of Computer Science and Engineering
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.
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