MU Information Technology (Semester 8)
Storage Management & Retrieval
December 2011
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INSTRUCTIONS
(1) Assume appropriate data and state your reasons
(2) Marks are given to the right of every question
(3) Draw neat diagrams wherever necessary


1 (a) Consider a disk I/O system in which an I/O request arrives at the rate of 80 lOPS. The disk service time is 6 ms.
(I) Compute the following: Utilization of I/O controller, Total response time, Average queue size, and Total time spent by a request in a queue.
(II) Compute the preceding parameter if the service time is halved.
10 M
1 (b) Explain SCSI command model.
10 M

2 (a) Explain following:
(i) Storage security domains.
(ii) Risk Triad.
10 M
2 (b) Explain disk drive performance in brief.
10 M

3 (a) What are the components of NAS. Explain NAS Implementations.
10 M
3 (b) Explain Object Storage and Retrieval in CAS.
10 M

4 (a) Explain the components of Intelligent Storage System.
10 M
4 (b) Explain various forms of virtualization & Storage virtualization challenges.
10 M

5 (a) Explain Information Life cycle. What are the key challenges in managing Information?
10 M
5 (b) Explain logical components of the host.
10 M

6 (a) Explain Remote replication technologies in brief.
10 M
6 (b) Explain fibre channel architecture.
10 M

Write short notes on (any four):-
7 (a) RAID levels.
5 M
7 (b) Failure analysis.
5 M
7 (c) Backup Granularity.
5 M
7 (d) Storage Management activities.
5 M
7 (e) LUN and LUN Masking.
5 M



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