BD4202 Information Storage Management Syllabus:

BD4202 Information Storage Management Syllabus – Anna University PG Syllabus Regulation 2021

COURSE OBJECTIVES:

 To understand the storage architecture and technologies in Information management
 To learn to establish and manage a data center
 To learn various storage technologies for the required application
 To apply security measures to the data center

UNIT I STORAGE TECHNOLOGY

Review data creation – Amount of data being created – 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.

UNIT II STORAGE SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE

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 – Performance Implications – Concept of RAID and its components – Different RAID levels and their suitability for different application environments – Compare and contrast integrated and modular storage systems – High-level architecture and working of an intelligent storage system.

UNIT III INTRODUCTION TO NETWORKED STORAGE

Evolution of networked storage – Architecture – Components – Topologies of FC-SAN – NAS – IPSAN – Benefits of the different networked storage options – Understand the need for long-Term archiving solutions – Describe how CAS fulfill the need – Understand the appropriateness – Different networked storage options – Different application environments.

UNIT IV INFORMATION AVAILABILITY, MONITORING & MANAGING DATA CENTERS

List reasons for planned or unplanned outages – Impact of downtime – Business continuity (BC) – Disaster recovery (DR) – RTO – RPO – Identify single points of failure – List solutions to mitigate failures – Architecture of backup/recovery – Different backup or recovery topologies – Replication technologies – Role in ensuring information availability and business continuity – Remote replication technologies – Role in providing disaster recovery and business continuity capabilities – Identify key areas to monitor in a data center – Industry standards for data center monitoring and management – Key metrics – Key management tasks.

UNIT V SECURING STORAGE AND STORAGE VIRTUALIZATION

Information security – Critical security attributes – Storage security domains – List and analyze the common threats in each domain – Virtualization technologies – Block-level and file-level virtualization technologies and processes.

TOTAL: 45 PERIODS

COURSE OUTCOMES:

Upon completion of the course, the student should be able to:
CO1: Understand the basics of storage management for Information maintenance.
CO2: Study the requirements and strategies for the data center.
CO3: Learn various storage technologies for the required application.
CO4: Apply security measures to the data center.
CO5: Analyze Quality of Service in Storage.

REFERENCES:

1. EMC Corporation, “Information Storage and Management: Storing, Managing, and Protecting Digital Information”, 2nd Edition, Wiley, India, 2012.
2. Marc Farley, “Building Storage Networks”, Tata McGraw Hill” ,Osborne, 2001.
3. Ulf Troppens, Rainer Erkens, Wolfgang Muller-Friedt, Rainer Wolafka, Nils Haustein, “Storage Networks Explained: Basics and Application of Fibre Channel SAN, NAS, ISCSI, Infini Band and FCoE”, Wiley, 2015.
4. Robert Spalding, “Storage Networks: The Complete Reference”, Tata McGraw Hill , 2017.

WEB REFERENCES:

1. https://nptel.ac.in/courses/106108058/.

ONLINE RESOURCES:

2. https://dokumen.tips/engineering/cp7029-information-storage-management-notes58f9ada4e0e17.html.