Lovely Professional University,Punjab

Format For Instruction Plan [for Courses with Lectures and Labs ]

Course No. CSE504 Course Title: STORAGE TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION L: 3 T: 0 P: 2 Cr: 4

Course Planner :- 13761 :: Gaurav Mehta

TextBook

1. Information Storage & Management, EMC Education Services, Wiley Publication

Other Specific Books

2. Marc Farley Osborne, "Building Storage Networks", Tata McGraw Hill, 2001
3. Robert Spalding, “Storage Networks: The Complete Reference“, Tata McGraw Hill,.

Other Readings

Sr. No. Jouranls atricles as compulsary readings (specific articles, Complete reference)

4 http://comjnl.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/2/2/49?maxtoshow=&hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=1&title=storage+&andorexacttitle=and&andorexacttitleabs=and&a
ndorexactfulltext=and&searchid=1&FIRSTINDEX=0&sortspec=
5
http://comjnl.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/40/9/529?maxtoshow=&hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=1&title=storage+&andorexacttitle=and&andorexacttitl
eabs=and&andorexactfulltext=and&searchid=1&FIRSTINDE
6
http://comjnl.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/14/1/45?maxtoshow=&hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=&fulltext=+storage+devices&searchid=1&FIRSTINDEX=0&reso
urcetype=HWCIT

Relevant Websites

Sr. No. Web adress (only if relevant to the courses) Salient Features

7 emc.com relevant material for all topics

8 oracle.com databases

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Detailed Plan For Lectures
Pedagogical tool
Chapters/Sections of
Homework to be Demonstration/case
Week No. Lecture No. Topic Textbook/other
Assigned to students study/images/anmation
reference
ctc. planned

Part 1
Week 1 Lecture 1 Storage System : Introduction to Information Storage & Management: ->Reference :1,Ch1 pg 1-21
information storage,evaluation storage technology,data center
infrastructure,information lifecycle.
Lecture 2 Storage System Environment : Concepts, disk drive ->Reference :1,Ch 2 pg 21-48
performance,logical component of host
Lecture 3 Data Protection: impimentation of raid, raidarray component, raid ->Reference :1,Ch 3 pg 51- 57
levels

Week 2 Lecture 4 Data Protection: raid 0-6, comparision ->Reference :1,Ch 3 pg 57-68

Lecture 5 Intelligent Storage System : components,storagearray, concept in ->Reference :1,Ch 4 pg 84-95

practice
Lecture 6 Intelligent Storage System : clariion,cx4,symmetrix,direct matrix ->Reference :1,Ch 4 pg 84-95 HomeWork 1 Allocation

Week 3 Lecture 7 Storage Networking Technologies & Visualization ->Reference :1,Ch 5 pg 99-112
:DAS,benefits,parallel scsi
Lecture 8 Storage Networking Technologies & Visualization: command model ->Reference :1,Ch5 pg
112-115
Lecture 9 Storage Area Network: FC, SAN evaluation,components, ->Reference :1,Ch 6 pg Term Paper 1 Allocation
117-124

Week 4 Lecture 10 Storage Area Network : FC, SAN evaluation,components, ->Reference :1,Ch 6 pg
117-124
Part 2
Week 4 Lecture 11 Storage Area Network :FC, SAN evaluation,components, ->Reference :1,Ch 6 pg HomeWork 1
117-124 Submission

Lecture 12 Storage Area NetworkFC, SAN evaluation,components, ->Reference :1,Ch 6 pg HomeWork 2 Allocation
117-125

Week 5 Lecture 13 Storage Area Network : fc connectivity,FC ports, architecture,structure ->Reference :1,Ch 6 pg
and organization, 125-138
Lecture 14 Storage Area Network : zooning,FC logins, topologies ->Reference :1,Ch6 pg
138-148

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Part 2
Week 5 Lecture 15 Storage Area Network : zooning,FC logins, topologies ->Reference :1,Ch6 pg
138-148

Week 6 Lecture 16 Network Attached Storage: general purpose server vs NAS ->Reference :1,Ch 7 pg
devices,benefits of NAS, NAS file i/o,components of NAS, NAS 149-157
implimentation,
Lecture 17 Network Attached Storage: nas file protocol, nas i/o operations,factor ->Reference :1,Ch 7 pg
affecting nas,factor affecting nas 157-168
Lecture 18 Network Attached Storage: nas file protocol, nas i/o operations,factor ->Reference :1,Ch 7 pg HomeWork 2
affecting nas,factor affecting nas 157-168 Submission

Week 7 Lecture 19 IP SAN : iSCSI, ->Reference :1,Ch 8 pg

171-177
Lecture 20 IP SAN : FCIP ->Reference :1,Ch 8 pg
171-177
Lecture 21 IP SAN: iSCSI, fcip ->Reference :1,Ch 8 pg
178-186

MID-TERM
Part 3
Week 8 Lecture 22 Content Addressed Storage: fixed content and archives,types of ->Reference :1,Ch 9 pg
archive,benefits of CAS,cas architecture,object storage and retrival in 189-198
casexamples
Lecture 23 Content Addressed Storage : CAS example, ->Reference :1,Ch 9 pg
198-200
Lecture 24 Content Addressed Storage : concepts in practice ->Reference :1,Ch 9 HomeWork 3 Allocation
pg200-205

Week 9 Lecture 25 Storage Virualization : forms of virtualization, SNIA ->Reference :1,Ch 10 pg

207-212
Lecture 26 Storage Virualization : SNIA,configuration,challenges,types,concepts ->Reference :1,Ch 10 pg
in practice 212-225
Lecture 27 Business Continuity: information availability,bc termonology,bc ->Reference :1,Ch 11 pg
lanning 229-238

Week 10 Lecture 28 Business Continuity : faliure analysis,business impact analysis, bc ->Reference :1,Ch 11 pg
technology solution,concept in practice 238-244
Lecture 29 Backup & Recovery: backup ->Reference :1,Ch 12 pg HomeWork 3
purpose,consideration,granularity,recovery considerations,backup 251-262 Submission
methods process,backup and restore operation
Part 4

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Part 4
Week 10 Lecture 30 Backup & Recovery : topologies, backup in nas environment ,backup ->Reference :1,Ch12 pg HomeWork 4 Allocation
technologies,concept in practice. 262-276

Week 11 Lecture 31 Backup & Recovery : concept in practice ->Reference :1,Ch 12 pg

276-280
Lecture 32 Local Replication : source and target,use,data consistency, local ->Reference :1,Ch 13 pg
replication technologies 283-297
Lecture 33 Local Replication : restore and restart consideration,creating multiple ->Reference :1,Ch 13 pg
replicas 297-301

Week 12 Lecture 34 Local Replication : creating multiple replicas,cocept in practice, ->Reference :1,Ch 13 pg
301-306
Lecture 35 Remote Replication : modes, technologies ->Reference :1,Ch 14 pg HomeWork 4
309-323 Submission

Lecture 36 Remote Replication : network infrastructure ->Reference :1,Ch 14 pg Term Paper 1

323-325 Submission

Week 13 Lecture 37 Remote Replication : concept in practice ->Reference :1,Ch 14 pg

325-330
Lecture 38 Securing the storage infrastructure : framework,risk triad, storage ->Reference :1,Ch 15 pg
security domain ,security implementation in storage networking 335-360
Lecture 39 Managing storage infrastructure: ->Reference :1,Ch 16:pg
monitroing,management,infrastructure management 363-390
challenges,developing ideal solution

Spill Over
Week 14 Lecture 40 Hub, Switch and Types of Hub & Switches :

Lecture 41 Standard Wires used in Networking

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 Details of homework and case studies plan
Nature of homework
Homework No. Topic of the Homework (group/individuals/field work

Homework 1 Storage System Environment and protection Individual

Homework 2 Storage Networking Technologies & Virtualization Individual

Homework 3 San , nas, cas techniques Individual

Homework 4 Managing the Storage Infrastructure Individual

*Normally all the homeworks shall be submitted online but in special courses where homeworks cannot be submited online , the insructor can edit the mode of submission while
entering the IP Details

Scheme for CA:out of 100*

Component Frequency Out of (If any) Marks for each Total Marks

Term Paper 1 25 25

Homework 3 4 5 15

Class test based on homework 3 4 10 30

Lab Assesment 10 12 3 30

Total :- 100

* In ENG courses wherever the total exceeds 100, consider x best out of y components of CA, as explained in teacher's guide available on the UMS

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 List of suggested topics for term paper[at least 15] (Student to spend about 15 hrs on any one specified term paper)
Sr. No. Topic
1 Study of different products of EMC
2 Backup techniques
3 Recovery techniques
4 Raid implimentation
5 Protection of data using raid
6 Intelligent storage device vs normal devices
7 Network technologies
8 IDE/SATA/SCSI/ATA
9 Working of HDD
10 SAN
11 NAS
12 CAS
13 Logical unit number
14 Storage virtualization
15 Local replication
16 Remote replication
17 Cloud computing
18 WI Max setup

*Each experiment of the lab will be evaluated using following relative scheme:

Component % of Marks

J/E 50

WR 20

VIVA 30

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 List of experiments :-

Expt. No Title Equipment Used Reference of Lab manual

Before Mid-Term

Experimental 1 RAID Implementation using Navisphere simulators

Navisphere simulators
Experimental 2 RAID Implementation using Navisphere simulators
Navisphere simulators
Experimental 3 Understanding of Disk Storage Hardware Simulator
System using Hardware Simulator
Experimental 4 Configuring & working on a Switch/Router
Switch/Router
Experimental 5 Configuring & working on a Switch/Router
Switch/Router
Experimental 6 Setting up
DNS,DHCP,NAT,RRAS services
Experimental 7 Setting up
DNS,DHCP,NAT,RRAS services
After Mid-Term

Experimental 8 Local Replication

Experimental 9 Remote Replication

Experimental 10 Remote Replication

Experimental 11 Monitoring Data Center control center simulator

Techniques using control center
simulator
Experimental 12 Managing Data Center using control center simulator
Control Center Simulator
Experimental 13 Managing Data Center using control center simulator
Control Center Simulator

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