New methods of installing storage to servers are constantly created by SAN’s. Such methods improve both the Availability and performance. Nowadays SAN’s are generally used to connect storage arrays that are shared and tape libraries to generally more than one server. SAN’s can also be used for fail-over clustering.
SAN’s are very useful in regards of providing resistance to traditional network bottlenecks as it operates at high speed data transfers between storage devices and servers. There are three possible ways in which data is transferred:
• Server Server: Used for fast, large-volume communications between servers
• Server Storage: This is the default with storage devices. The advantage is that the same storage device may be accessed serially or concurrently by multiple servers.
• Storage Storage: Enables data to be moved without server intervention, thereby freeing up server processor cycles for other activities like application processing. Examples include a disk device backing up its data, to a tape device without server intervention, or remote device mirroring across the SAN.
One of the advantages of SAN is that it allows apps that move data to perform
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Fibre Channels allow the use of SCSI protocols. When SCSI devices are connected they form a bus that can be terminated using something that is called a terminator. The cable length is limited to 25 meters, and allows a 16 device maximum that can be connected to a single SCSI bus. The SCSI protocol has many options that can be configured to handle errors and supports both reconnect and disconnect to various devices and can allow multiple initiator requests. A host computer is generally an initiator. Initiator support allows hosts to attach to the same devices and are used in compatibility of clustered configurations. The ‘Ultra3 SCSI adapter’ has a data transfer rate of 160
Unit: 9/ P1 1. Various Network Topologies: Star: Star topology is used to connect all computers to a central switch, which is responsible for forwarding the data to its destination computers. As shows in the diagram below: This type of topology is used with Ethernet and frame relay.
1. Give an example in which the operating system would use a bitmap to manage resource. Answer: Windows, Android like operating systems uses bitmap to manage resources. 2.
Storage devices are one of the important components of any computing device. They store virtually all the information and applications on a computer, except hardware things. They are available in different form factors depending on the type of underlying device. For example, a standard computer has multiple storage devices including RAM, cache, a hard disk, an optical disk drive and externally connected USB drives. There are two different types of storage devices: • Primary Storage Devices: Generally smaller in size, are designed to hold data temporarily and are internal to the computer.
1. Discuss the differences and similarities between a peer-to peer network and a client server network. Answer: The following are characteristics of a peer-to-peer network that differ from those of a client server network.
Liven up your living space with a range of patio designs The current trend of making your home look better is catching on and there are many people who have joined the bandwagon and it is quite easy to see why the people are getting so hooked into this trend because as we know reconstruction expenses on a house are enormous and no matter what the finance company may tell you that it adds value to your house, the end result is that it takes a lot of time and effort just to build up a few thousand dollars, in turn, people have now taken up a less expensive and effective way to expand their homes with the use of a simple patio which is now becoming very quickly adopted throughout the suburban neighbourhoods and this has given rise to a whole new range of patio designs as well as more and more people adopt the trend. In basic, the patio is made up of
Workstations are special computers designed or technical applications and its meant to be used at one at a time how it works is that it is connected to a local area network (LAN) which is able to run multi user operating system. In terms of computer networks a server is a computer program that provides services to other computer programs which is sent to their users in the same time. Example of a work station: An example, of a server is print server is an
3. Research Question and Objectives Our main objective is to design a web-based visual interactive software that can provide us a graphical interface for computer programming. Where basic general purpose programming facilities will be available like creation of modules, arrays and object orientation. Where we can achieve multitasking using threads and exception handling to catch exceptions.
Layer three, the network layer, takes network addresses and makes them physical while “routing” data determining whether or not data is sent from the sender to the receiver. In the network layer encloses data in a packet then sends the packet to the data link layer, the second layer. The data link layer transforms the packets into frames. Doing this allows the data to be transmitted in the physical layer. A known hardware device that performs at this layer is a NIC or a network interface card.
Servers may have high performance RAM, faster processor and high capacity hard drives. There are number of categories of server, including print server, file server, network server and database server. 2.3.3 Client and Server
The I/O operation delays slows down the application and this effects the speed of the application when there are more I/O requests. The database should be able to handle increased requests with ease and good speed. Instead of directly relying on the database, we can use the in memory data nodes or In-Memory Data Grid(IMDG), a layer between the application and the database which provides high availibility, consistency and reliability while isolating the database from the application load and data persistence being handled in the background. The storage implementation and schedule are handled by IMDG and the application need not be aware of anything related to the data. The application can still ask for the synchronous database persistence and in memory persistence for more transient data.
The primary storage in computers today is usually referred to as the main memory. This type of storage is distinguished by the very high speed at which it can be accessed. Main memory is kept close to the processor, and is used for the things being worked on at the moment. If one were building a chair, the computer memory is like the workbench where the hammer, nails, wood, and other materials are kept while working. Most memory today stores data using integrated circuits made up of transistors and
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By delivering business assets to a device in a virtualized container, data security can be maintained by preventing the device from ever directly physically possessing the sensitive information in the first place. Additionally, a lost or stolen device can be immediately detached from the business network, leaving no trace of data on the device to be retrieved by a third party. Proactive Defensive
Activity 3.1 - Interconnection structures - The Bus [1 hour] Activity Details In this activity, you are to open at least two computers of different computer architecture models complete the following:- Name the computer architecture widely used by modern computers From the the computer architecture model you are using identify the following: Number of data buses Number of address buses Number of control buses Identify the type of connection for each I/O device and list the type of connection, e.g ISA, PCI, USB, COM port, etc. Indicate what kind of data each of the I/O devices may send through the data bus. Conclusion There are different buses, input/output devices, ports, USB, COM ports and that these are different for different computer
The solution presented above has the following characteristics: • Contains one SAN to hold all the production data. Each SAN is designed for high availability, with all components being redundant, so as to provide 99.99% uptime. The SAN uses a combination of disk and flash storage to maximize performance. Appropriate data from the primary SAN will be replicated to the Disaster Recovery SAN automatically, and for the purpose of data backup.