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Storage Fundamentals: by Kiran Balimidi

Storage devices are used to store, port, and extract data and files. As data grew exponentially, storage technologies expanded from direct attached storage (DAS) to network attached storage (NAS) and storage area networks (SAN). Common RAID technologies include RAID 0 for striping, RAID 1 for mirroring, RAID 5 for distributed parity, and RAID 6 for double distributed parity. Major storage vendors provide products that implement these technologies at scale.

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Storage Fundamentals: by Kiran Balimidi

Storage devices are used to store, port, and extract data and files. As data grew exponentially, storage technologies expanded from direct attached storage (DAS) to network attached storage (NAS) and storage area networks (SAN). Common RAID technologies include RAID 0 for striping, RAID 1 for mirroring, RAID 5 for distributed parity, and RAID 6 for double distributed parity. Major storage vendors provide products that implement these technologies at scale.

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Storage Fundamentals

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?

In IT World Storage can be termed as a place where data is

“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:

 DAS (Direct Attached storage)


 NAS(Network Attached Storage)
 SAN (Storage Area Network)
DAS (DIRECT ACCESS STORAGE):-
DAS CHALLENGES:
Hosts must be directly connected.
Scalability is limited.
Number of connectivity ports to hosts.
Number of addressable disks
Distance limitations.
Down time required for maintenance.
NAS (NETWORK ATTACHED
STORAGE):-

NFS - (Network File System):- It is used for UNIX based Servers.


CIFS-(Common Interface File System):- It is used for WINDOWS based systems.
NAS controller in NAS server or (CIFS or NFS) will convert File I/O into
Block I/O into the Storage Devices.

NAS CHALLENGES:-
 SPEED
 RELIABULITY
 SECURITY
SAN (Storage Area Network):-
BENEFITS OF SAN:-

• High band width - Fiber channel


• SCSI Extension - Block I/O
• Resource consolidation- Centralized storage and management.
• Scalability- Up to 16 Million devices
• Secure access-Isolation and Filtering
Disk Types:
For High Performance we are using below drives

Hard Disk Drives (HDD)


Solid State Drives (SSD)
NVMe Drives
RAID Types:
Redundant array of independent disk or Redundant array of inexpensive disk

Below are different types of RAID Technologies

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

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