Information Storage and Management -- Contents -- Section I Storage System -- Chapter 1 Introduction to Information Storage -- 1.1 Information Storage -- 1.1.1 Data -- 1.1.2 Types of Data -- 1.1.3 Big Data -- 1.1.4 Information -- 1.1.5 Storage -- 1.2 Evolution of Storage Architecture -- 1.3 Data Center Infrastructure -- 1.3.1 Core Elements of a Data Center -- 1.3.2 Key Characteristics of a Data Center -- 1.3.3 Managing a Data Center -- 1.4 Virtualization and Cloud Computing -- Summary -- Chapter 2 Data Center Environment -- 2.1 Application -- 2.2 Database Management System (DBMS) -- 2.3 Host (Compute) -- 2.3.1 Operating System -- Memory Virtualization -- 2.3.2 Device Driver -- 2.3.3 Volume Manager -- 2.3.4 File System -- 2.3.5 Compute Virtualization -- 2.4 Connectivity -- 2.4.1 Physical Components of Connectivity -- 2.4.2 Interface Protocols -- IDE/ATA and Serial ATA -- SCSI and Serial SCSI -- Fibre Channel -- Internet Protocol (IP) -- 2.5 Storage -- 2.6 Disk Drive Components -- 2.6.1 Platter -- 2.6.2 Spindle -- 2.6.3 Read/Write Head -- 2.6.4 Actuator Arm Assembly -- 2.6.5 Drive Controller Board -- 2.6.6 Physical Disk Structure -- 2.6.7 Zoned Bit Recording -- 2.6.8 Logical Block Addressing -- 2.7 Disk Drive Performance -- 2.7.1 Disk Service Time -- Seek Time -- Rotational Latency -- Data Transfer Rate -- 2.7.2 Disk I/O Controller Utilization -- 2.8 Host Access to Data -- 2.9 Direct-Attached Storage -- 2.9.1 DAS Benefits and Limitations -- 2.10 Storage Design Based on Application Requirements and Disk Performance -- 2.11 Disk Native Command Queuing -- 2.12 Introduction to Flash Drives -- 2.12.1 Components and Architecture of Flash Drives -- 2.12.2 Features of Enterprise Flash Drives -- 2.13 Concept in Practice: VMware ESXi -- Summary -- Chapter 3 Data Protection: RAID -- 3.1 RAID Implementation Methods.

3.1.1 Software RAID -- 3.1.2 Hardware RAID -- 3.2 RAID Array Components -- 3.3 RAID Techniques -- 3.3.1 Striping -- 3.3.2 Mirroring -- 3.3.3 Parity -- 3.4 RAID Levels -- 3.4.1 RAID 0 -- 3.4.2 RAID 1 -- 3.4.3 Nested RAID -- 3.4.4 RAID 3 -- 3.4.5 RAID 4 -- 3.4.6 RAID 5 -- 3.4.7 RAID 6 -- 3.5 RAID Impact on Disk Performance -- 3.5.1 Application IOPS and RAID Configurations -- 3.6 RAID Comparison -- 3.7 Hot Spares -- Summary -- Chapter 4 Intelligent Storage Systems -- 4.1 Components of an Intelligent Storage System -- 4.1.1 Front End -- 4.1.2 Cache -- Structure of Cache -- Read Operation with Cache -- Write Operation with Cache -- Cache Implementation -- Cache Management -- Cache Data Protection -- 4.1.3 Back End -- 4.1.4 Physical Disk -- 4.2 Storage Provisioning -- 4.2.1 Traditional Storage Provisioning -- LUN Expansion: MetaLUN -- 4.2.2 Virtual Storage Provisioning -- Comparison between Virtual and Traditional Storage Provisioning -- Use Cases for Thin and Traditional LUNs -- 4.2.3 LUN Masking -- 4.3 Types of Intelligent Storage Systems -- 4.3.1 High-End Storage Systems -- 4.3.2 Midrange Storage Systems -- 4.4 Concepts in Practice: EMC Symmetrix and VNX -- 4.4.1 EMC Symmetrix Storage Array -- 4.4.2 EMC Symmetrix VMAX Component -- 4.4.3 Symmetrix VMAX Architecture -- Summary -- Section II Storage Networking Technologies -- Chapter 5 Fibre Channel Storage Area Networks -- 5.1 Fibre Channel: Overview -- 5.2 The SAN and Its Evolution -- 5.3 Components of FC SAN -- 5.3.1 Node Ports -- 5.3.2 Cables and Connectors -- 5.3.3 Interconnect Devices -- 5.3.4 SAN Management Software -- 5.4 FC Connectivity -- 5.4.1 Point-to-Point -- 5.4.2 Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop -- 5.4.3 Fibre Channel Switched Fabric -- FC-SW Transmission -- 5.5 Switched Fabric Ports -- 5.6 Fibre Channel Architecture -- 5.6.1 Fibre Channel Protocol Stack -- FC-4 Layer.

FC-2 Layer -- FC-1 Layer -- FC-0 Layer -- 5.6.2 Fibre Channel Addressing -- 5.6.3 World Wide Names -- 5.6.4 FC Frame -- 5.6.5. Structure and Organization of FC Data -- 5.6.6 Flow Control -- BB_Credit -- EE_Credit -- 5.6.7 Classes of Service -- 5.7 Fabric Services -- 5.8 Switched Fabric Login Types -- 5.9 Zoning -- 5.9.1 Types of Zoning -- 5.10 FC SAN Topologies -- 5.10.1 Mesh Topology -- 5.10.2 Core-Edge Fabric -- Benefits and Limitations of Core-Edge Fabric -- 5.11 Virtualization in SAN -- 5.11.1 Block-level Storage Virtualization -- 5.11.2 Virtual SAN (VSAN) -- 5.12 Concepts in Practice: EMC Connectrix and EMC VPLEX -- 5.12.1 EMC Connectrix -- Connectrix Switches -- Connectrix Directors -- Connectrix Multi-purpose Switches -- Connectrix Management Tools -- 5.12.2 EMC VPLEX -- VPLEX Family of Products -- Summary -- Chapter 6 IP SAN and FCoE -- 6.1 iSCSI -- 6.1.1 Components of iSCSI -- 6.1.2 iSCSI Host Connectivity -- 6.1.3 iSCSI Topologies -- Native iSCSI Connectivity -- Bridged iSCSI Connectivity -- Combining FC and Native iSCSI Connectivity -- 6.1.4 iSCSI Protocol Stack -- 6.1.5 iSCSI PDU -- 6.1.6 iSCSI Discovery -- 6.1.7 iSCSI Names -- 6.1.8 iSCSI Session -- 6.1.9 iSCSI Command Sequencing -- 6.2 FCIP -- 6.2.1 FCIP Protocol Stack -- 6.2.2 FCIP Topology -- 6.2.3 FCIP Performance and Security -- 6.3 FCoE -- 6.3.1 I/O Consolidation Using FCoE -- 6.3.2 Components of an FCoE Network -- Converged Network Adapter -- Cables -- FCoE Switches -- 6.3.3 FCoE Frame Structure -- FCoE Frame Mapping -- 6.3.4 FCoE Enabling Technologies -- Priority-Based Flow Control (PFC) -- Enhanced Transmission Selection (ETS) -- Congestion Notification (CN) -- Data Center Bridging Exchange Protocol (DCBX) -- Summary -- Chapter 7 Network-Attached Storage -- 7.1 General-Purpose Servers versus NAS Devices -- 7.2 Benefits of NAS.

7.3 File Systems and Network File Sharing -- 7.3.1 Accessing a File System -- 7.3.2 Network File Sharing -- 7.4 Components of NAS -- 7.5 NAS I/O Operation -- 7.6 NAS Implementations -- 7.6.1 Unified NAS -- 7.6.2 Unified NAS Connectivity -- 7.6.3 Gateway NAS -- 7.6.4 Gateway NAS Connectivity -- 7.6.5 Scale-Out NAS -- 7.6.6 Scale-Out NAS Connectivity -- 7.7 NAS File-Sharing Protocols -- 7.7.1 NFS -- 7.7.2 CIFS -- 7.8 Factors Affecting NAS Performance -- 7.9 File-Level Virtualization -- 7.10 Concepts in Practice: EMC Isilon and EMC VNX Gateway -- 7.10.1 EMC Isilon -- 7.10.2 EMC VNX Gateway -- Summary -- Chapter 8 Object-Based and Unified Storage -- 8.1 Object-Based Storage Devices -- 8.1.1 Object-Based Storage Architecture -- 8.1.2 Components of OSD -- 8.1.3 Object Storage and Retrieval in OSD -- 8.1.4 Benefits of Object-Based Storage -- 8.1.5 Common Use Cases for Object-Based Storage -- 8.2 Content-Addressed Storage -- 8.3 CAS Use Cases -- 8.3.1 Healthcare Solution: Storing Patient Studies -- 8.3.2 Finance Solution: Storing Financial Records -- 8.4 Unified Storage -- 8.4.1 Components of Unified Storage -- Data Access from Unified Storage -- 8.5 Concepts in Practice: EMC Atmos, EMC VNX, and EMC Centera -- 8.5.1 EMC Atmos -- 8.5.2 EMC VNX -- 8.5.3 EMC Centera -- EMC Centera Architecture -- Summary -- Section III Backup, Archive, and Replication -- Chapter 9 Introduction to Business Continuity -- 9.1 Information Availability -- 9.1.1 Causes of Information Unavailability -- 9.1.2 Consequences of Downtime -- 9.1.3 Measuring Information Availability -- 9.2 BC Terminology -- 9.3 BC Planning Life Cycle -- 9.4 Failure Analysis -- 9.4.1 Single Point of Failure -- 9.4.2 Resolving Single Points of Failure -- 9.4.3 Multipathing Software -- 9.5 Business Impact Analysis -- 9.6 BC Technology Solutions.

9.7 Concept in Practice: EMC PowerPath -- 9.7.1 PowerPath Features -- 9.7.2 Dynamic Load Balancing -- I/O Operation without PowerPath -- I/O Operation with PowerPath -- 9.7.3 Automatic Path Failover -- Path Failure without PowerPath -- Path Failover with PowerPath: Active-Active Array -- Path Failover with PowerPath: Active-Passive Array -- Summary -- Chapter 10 Backup and Archive -- 10.1 Backup Purpose -- 10.1.1 Disaster Recovery -- 10.1.2 Operational Recovery -- 10.1.3 Archival -- 10.2 Backup Considerations -- 10.3 Backup Granularity -- 10.4 Recovery Considerations -- 10.5 Backup Methods -- 10.6 Backup Architecture -- 10.7 Backup and Restore Operations -- 10.8 Backup Topologies -- 10.9 Backup in NAS Environments -- 10.9.1 Server-Based and Serverless Backup -- 10.9.2 NDMP-Based Backup -- 10.10 Backup Targets -- 10.10.1 Backup to Tape -- Physical Tape Library -- Limitations of Tape -- 10.10.2 Backup to Disk -- 10.10.3 Backup to Virtual Tape -- Virtual Tape Library -- 10.11 Data Deduplication for Backup -- 10.11.1 Data Deduplication Methods -- 10.11.2 Data Deduplication Implementation -- Source-Based Data Deduplication -- Target-Based Data Deduplication -- 10.12 Backup in Virtualized Environments -- 10.13 Data Archive -- 10.14 Archiving Solution Architecture -- 10.14.1 Use Case: E-mail Archiving -- 10.14.2 Use Case: File Archiving -- 10.15 Concepts in Practice: EMC NetWorker, EMC Avamar, and EMC Data Domain -- 10.15.1 EMC NetWorker -- 10.15.2 EMC Avamar -- 10.15.3 EMC Data Domain -- Summary -- Chapter 11 Local Replication -- 11.1 Replication Terminology -- 11.2 Uses of Local Replicas -- 11.3 Replica Consistency -- 11.3.1 Consistency of a Replicated File System -- 11.3.2 Consistency of a Replicated Database -- 11.4 Local Replication Technologies -- 11.4.1 Host-Based Local Replication -- LVM-Based Replication.

Advantages of LVM-Based Replication.