MU Information Technology (Semester 8)
Storage Management & Retrieval
December 2012
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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 logical components of the host.
10 M

2 (a) Explain the factors affecting NAS performance and availability in detail.
10 M
2 (b) Explain forms and configurations of virtualization.
10 M

3 (a) Explain CAS Architecture with examples.
10 M
3 (b) Explain in detail storage security Domains and Implementations in storage networking.
10 M

4 (a) Explain storage management activities with monitoring examples.
10 M
4 (b) Explain remote replication technologies with neat diagrams.
10 M

5 (a) Explain failure analysis with respect to business continuity.
10 M
5 (b) Explain RAID levels in detail with neat diagram.
10 M

6 (a) Explain various fibre channel architecture in detail.
10 M
6 (b) Explain components of an Intelligent storage system in detail.
10 M

Write short notes on (any four):-
7 (a) Zoning.
5 M
7 (b) Uses of Local Replicas.
5 M
7 (c) SCSI Command Model.
5 M
7 (d) LUN and LUN Masking.
5 M
7 (e) Backup Granularity.
5 M



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