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Storage Devices
Components, interfacing, performance and reliability of mechanical and solid state drives. Tape-based storage: role suitability, interfacing and capacity calculations. Hybrid Drives.
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Host-based storage
Host Bus Adapter interfaces; file system responsibilities; SMART disk monitoring; application-specific RAID configurations; thick/thin provisioning; partitioning schemes: logical volume management; LVM-based software RAID; hot spare configuration; pooled storage configurations; boot-related issues; combined volume management and filesystems.
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Shared storage architectures
Differentiation of SAN and NAS environments. Motivators for centralising storage in data centre environments. IP SAN configurations using iSCSI. Target+LUN provisioning, initiator setup. IP storage network design considerations. Shared targets & clustered filesystems. Fibre Channel and FCoE SAN. Diskless boot-from-SAN. Regulatory issues in shared storage environments
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High-availability
Data centre storage environment; encryption; strategic security considerations; space optimisation; compression; deduplication, multi-site distributed SAN replication; failover; disaster recovery; backup schemes for SAN-based storage.
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Virtualised environments
Storage configurations for virtualised hosts; SAN-backed hypervisor storage. Storage configurations for virtualised hosts; SAN-backed hypervisor storage; contrast onsite and cloud storage provision; integration of onsite and cloud storage providers and consumers;
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Module Resources
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Recommended Book Resources |
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EMC Education Services. (2012), Information Storage and Management: Storing, Managing, and Protecting Digital Information in Classic, Virtualized, and Cloud Environments, Second Edition. John Wiley & Sons, [ISBN: 9781118236963].
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Nigel Poulton. (2014), Data Storage Networking, [ISBN: 978-1-4920-05].
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