Siddaganga Institute of Technology, Tumkur - 572 103: Usn 1 S I CSPE17
Siddaganga Institute of Technology, Tumkur - 572 103: Usn 1 S I CSPE17
Seventh Semester B.E. – Computer Sc. & Engineering Examinations Nov/Dec. 2015
Storage Area Network
Time: 3 Hours Max. Marks: 100
Not : 1. Question No. 1 is Compulsory
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2. Answer any 4 full questions from question No. 2 to Question No. 6
1 a) How does Active/active cabling support both load sharing and no load sharing.
b) Compare RAID10 and RAID5 with respect to write performance and space requirement.
c) What is LUN masking? What is the main advantage of LUN masking?
d) List the buses required in a physical I/O path from CPU to storage system.
e) Write two important advantages of point to point fibre channel topology over SCSI cabling.
f) Why FCIP is called a tunneling protocol?
g) What is volume manager? Write the main function of volume manager. 2x7
h) Define storage virtualization.
i) What is the role of agent software in asymmetric virtualization? 1x2
j) How is storage network different from data network?
k) What are the functions of media manager in network back-up? 2x2
2 a) Bring out the differences between server centric and storage centric IT architecture. 6
b) Explain the architecture of intelligent disk subsystems with a neat diagram. 6
c) How parity disk replaces all mirror disks of RAID 10? Will it increases the performance and
fault tolerance? Justify. 8
3 a) Illustrate how disk subsystem, accelerates write and read access to hard disks by having
caches in their controller. 6
b) Discuss the various topologies of fibre channel SAN. 6
c) What are the characteristics of fibre channel I/O? Explain fibre channel protocol stack. 8
6 a) Explain how availability of data is achieved during the failure of the following:
i) Failure of a server ii) Failure of a disk subsystem. 10
b) With a neat diagram discuss server-free and LAN-free back-up approaches. 10
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