Storage Fundamentals: by Kiran Balimidi
Storage Fundamentals: by Kiran Balimidi
Storage Fundamentals: by Kiran Balimidi
By
Kiran Balimidi
Table of Contents
• What is Storage?
• Basic types of Storage devices
• Why Storage Grew So much?
• Storage Topologies
• Disk Types
• RAID Technologies
What is Storage?
“Kept”
“Stockpiled”
Or Simple “Held”
Storage devices or Media are computing hardware used for “Storing” ,”Porting”, and “
Extracting datafiles or Objects”.
It can hold and stores information temporarily or permanently and can be internal or
External to computer or Server.
Two Basic types of Storage Devices
Why Storage Grew So Much
We are happy the way things why storage grew so much to have become a
separate domain in itself?
Well, the simplest answer is to this is EXPONENTIAL GRWOTH OF DATA!!
It was just Impossible to for simplest internal storage devices to deal with so
much data/information capacity growth.
So, a lot of storage technologies came into picture Like DAS(Direct Attached
storage),Leading to NAS ( Network attached storage) which further led to big
world of SAN (Storage Area Network).
Storage Topologies:
NAS CHALLENGES:-
SPEED
RELIABULITY
SECURITY
SAN (Storage Area Network):-
BENEFITS OF SAN:-
RAID 0 – Striping
RAID 1 – Mirroring
RAID 3 – Parity
RAID 5 – Distributed parity
RAID 6 – Double Distributed Parity
RAID 1+0 or 0+1 – Mirroring and Striping
RAID 0
(Stripping):
RAID 1
(Mirroring)
RAID 3
(Dedicated
Parity)
RAID 5
(Distributed
Parity)
RAID 6
(Dual
Distributed
Parity)
RAID 1+0 or
0+1
(Mirroring
and Stripping)
Storage Vendor and Products
• EMC
• NetApp
• HP
• Hitachi
• IBM
• Pure Storage